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To UN Opposing Guterres Inner City Press Filed to PGA Who Says Only 1-Man Debate May 7

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Song
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SDNY COURTHOUSE, March 25 – 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 996th 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 and now March 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.  Since then, four weeks of dodging and blockage, now of four.

  On March 25, Bozkir's spokesman Brenden Varma, who blocks Inner City Press on Twitter, announced that "there is only one candidate" and that he will hold a North Korea-like one-man debate on May 7. Debate? This is corruption. We will have more on this. Watch this site.

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