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Opposing Guterres 2d Term Inner City Press
Feb 26 Wrote to PGA He Sent USUN Zip
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Song
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 6 – How corrupt and
undemocratic is today's United
Nations?
Well, now that
Antonio Guterres is pushing
for a second five-year term,
while banning
the Press for the 977th day
for daring to ask about his
finances and failures, he has
collaborators.
The
current President of the
General Assembly Volkan
Bozkir, a strongman from
Turkey who due to his bigoted
comments even pro-UN New York
City Mayor Bill de Blasio
wouldn't meet with, has the
duty of circulating letters
from candidates.
But
throughout February 2021,
Bozkir refused to circulate
the letter of UN staffer
candidate Arora Akanksha.
Bozkir's
spokesman Brendan Varma, who
blocks Inner City Press
on Twitter, continues to dance
around what the rules are and
won't answer.
So, as a
test - and to raise the issue
of the UN's lack of content
neutral media access rules, lack
of a Freedom of Information
Act (fought for the Free
UN Coalition for Access) and
lack of scruples - Inner City
Press on the morning of
February 26 submitted a signed
letter
and C.V. to the PGA's Office
and to Varma.
Also to the
President of the Security
Council for February, Barbara
Woodward of the UK Mission,
along with a formal request
for confirmation of receipt.
The UK,
consistent with its complicity
in the mass killings of the
former British Southern
Cameroons, never responded.
Bozkir, while refusing to name
names, tweeted that he had
sent two letters and two CVs
to March's UNSG President, the
US' Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
But now,
eight days later, nothing.
Bozkir's spokesman Brenden
Varma, before cancelling his
briefing on March 4, on March
3 said, "In response to a
question, the Spokesperson
said that, as of now, the name
and curriculum vitae of only
one candidate, António
Guterres of Portugal, had been
jointly circulated by the
Presidents of the General
Assembly and Security Council
to Member States. In addition,
the President had forwarded
two signed letters and
curricula vitae to his
Security Council counterpart."
And - nothing. Today's UN is
corrupt.
Watch this
site.
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