| UNPGA Prez Volkan Bozkir
Hires Australia DPR With Conchita Wurst Echo
Still Censored
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE, Aug 21 –
How corrupt is today's United
Nations? On May 15 the UN
General Assembly held a
"informal interactive
dialogue" for the lone
rubber-stamp candidate to be
UN President of the GA, Volkan
Bozkir.
Since
there is no other candidate,
it was akin to a presidential
debate in North Korea.
And now
after Bozkir was rubber
stamped, without yet taking
any action on the banning from
the UN of the most active
Press, Inner City Press,
Bozkir has begun stocking up:
"Tegan Brink Chef de Cabinet
to the President of the 75th
Session of the UN General
Assembly" - from Australia's
mission. Will she ensure that
active press can enter and ask
questions in the UN? Or
collude in censorship?
And in other ways
too: Turkish "diplomatic"
Volkan Bozkir is best known
for saying,
after "drag queen" Conchita
Wurst's Eurovision win,
"Thank God we no longer
participate in Eurovision."
Yet
watch corrupt UNSG Antonio
Guterres speak warmly about
it. Guterres believes in
nothing but himself, wanting
to "run" unopposed for a
second term. This should be
denied. Here's the notice,
from another UN office whose
spokesperson Reem Abaza like
Guterres' Stephane Dujarric
refuses to answer Inner City
Press' written questions about
its corruption:
"The
President of the 74th session
of the General Assembly,
Tijjani Muhammad-Bande will
convene an informal
interactive dialogue with the
candidate for the position of
President of the 75th session
of the Assembly, Volkan Bozkir
on Friday, 15 May 2020, from
11:00 a.m. – 1:00
p.m.
The dialogue will be held via
a virtual platform due to the
continued limitations on
holding large in-person
meetings as a result of the
COVID-19 pandemic."
Under
Guterres' Melissa Fleming, it
seems Inner City Press will be
denied video of the "debate."
Inner City Press, banned from
the UN and now its Zoom rooms
for 676 days, will have much
more on this. Watch this site.
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