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UN, SG Guterres Gives Oceans Job to PGA Who
Was Supposed to Oversee Him
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
September 12 – During the June
2017 UN “Oceans Conference,”
Inner City Press heard from
sources of moves to create a
new position of UN Oceans
Envoy, and for then President
of the General Assembly Peter
Thomson to get the post.
Earlier this week when Thomson
was still PGA, Inner City
Press asked him about the
position. And now on September
12, Guterres' spokesman
Stephane Dujarric began the
daily press briefing with a
statement by Thomson, that he
got the job. Inner City Press
for the Free UN Coalition for
Access asked Thomson when he
had been offered the job - and
if he saw anything to a
critique that there should be
a cooling-off period, that a
PGA who's supposed to provide
oversight of the Secretary
General should not be offered
a job by the Secretary
General. The genial Thomson
said that the oceans can't
wait. Really, the question is
for Guterres, or at least his
spokesman Dujarric, who ran
out mid-question on September
11 and ended the briefing
abruptly on September 12,
before this question could be
asked. Watch this site.
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