| As UN
Guterres Lusts For 2d Term Abuses
Incumbency Amid Silence from PGA &
UKUN
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE, Feb 12 –
The moves by Antonio Guterres
to try to get five more years
in the UN Mansion on Sutton
Place by further selling out
human rights, banning the
Press which asks questions
about genocide in Cameroon,
peacekeepers' rapes and
Chinese bribes at the UN
continue.
But in his
lust for an unmerited second
term as UNSG, Guterres on
February 5 got fellow censor
UK PR Barbara Woodward and
Turkish strongman PGA Volkan
Bozkir to issue a letter
kicking off what he hopes to
be a rigged process. Woodward
even gushed
about openness, while her UK
Mission refuses
to answer written questions
from Inner City Press,
including about Guterres'
shameful cover up of sexual
abuse by his crony Fabrizio
Hochschild.
On February
8, a first of what should be
many challengers, leading over
the hill corrupt-o Guterres to
withdraw. First out the box:
Arora Akanksha. She's worked
at the UNFPA, so she should
know just how low Guterres has
taken the UN system.
Inner City
Press first reported her
campaign on February 8, and on
the morning of February 9
asked Guterres and his
spokespeople Melissa Fleming
and Stephane Dujarric, "What
are SG Guterres' response to
the candidacy for SG of Arora
Akanksha, who says "not enough
has been done other than
reshuffling of the bureaucracy
and recycling ineffective
leaders with new titles and
nameplates. What ails
the UN is a failure of
leadership"?
No answer at all
- but two days later on
February 11 Dujarric told his
pro-Guterres insiders,
"António Guterres is a
candidate for the selection
process. It's not for him to
comment on other people who
may want to come forward. This
is a process run by Member
States... I speak for the
incumbent candidate."
Yeah - who
is misusing incumbency to try
to extend his corrupt reign,
for example here.
Here's
video.
Inner City Press
asked not only Guterres and
his spokespeople about it, but
also PGA Zolkan Bozkir and his
spokesman Brendan Varma, and
UNSC President Barbara
Woodward, who promised
"openness." Nothing, no answer
- collusion.
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