| On Tajik
Conflict UN Refuses Press Questions, Sends
Bought Off Opponent As 1-Man Debate
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Song
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 30 – 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 1033rd day
for daring to ask about his
finances and failures, he has
collaborators.
Guterres
and his spokesman now refuse
Inner City Press' questions
about newly arising conflicts,
like Kyrgyzstan - Tajikistan.
Even banned from the UN,
beyond leaks, things come in
like this:
Dear Matthew
Russell Lee, Hope this email
finds your well.
The clashes broke out in the
area on the border of
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. As
reported by locals, dozens of
houses were set on fire in
several villages near to
border. There was also an
attack on a border post and
the building was burned down.
Residents of these villages
were relocated to the district
center, Isfana. So far, they
have not returned home.
Citizens of Tajikistan took
hostage the head of a Kyrgyz
village. Hundreds of people
have been evacuated from
adjacent villages, 13 Kyrgyz
citizens died, several
injureds in Batken and Leilek
regions. The tension between
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are
being left fierce.
In order to disseminate
reliable information
worldwide, being as a media
platform in Kyrgyzstan that
provides reliable, quality
news, we would like to offer a
cooperation. We
can provide you with
well-grounded information from
the original place of the
clash and breaking
news. The
information provided will
refer to only reliable and
official sources that retain
its best reliability and
quality. We hope
that you are on the side of
justice and cooperate to
disseminate reliable
information." But the UN
won't answer, to confirm or
deny. Instead they sent
Natalia Gherman, who
previously opposed Guterres
and then was bought of with a
publicly funded job. Guterres
must go.
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, March and
now April 2021, Bozkir refused
to circulate any letters or
CVs. Now on April 27 his
spokesman Brenden Varma, who
blocks Inner City Press on
Twitter, described with a
straight face a one-man
"debate" on May 7, Guterres as
Dear Leader, and said there
are not criteria or rules
under which Inner City Press
and others are not having
letters and CVs blocked. It's
just corruption.
Guterres will do anything for
a 2d term.
Including giving
out jobs, during the campaign,
to people who were supposed to
oversee him. With all due
respect, it is a conflict of
interest. On April 26, "United
Nations Secretary-General
António Guterres today
announced the appointment of
Courtenay Rattray of Jamaica
as High Representative for the
Least Developed Countries,
Landlocked Developing
Countries and Small Island
Developing States...
Currently Permanent
Representative of Jamaica to
the United Nations in New
York, Mr. Rattray also serves
as Co-chair of the Group of
Friends of the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs)
Financing; Children and the
SDGs; as well as the Group of
Friends of Decent Work.
He has served as Chairperson
of several key initiatives,
including the 52nd session of
the Commission on Population
and Development (CPD52) in
2019, Co-facilitator for the
Conclusions and
Recommendations of the 2018
Financing for Development
Forum... Prior to his
current position, he was
Ambassador of Jamaica to the
People’s Republic of China in
Beijing (2008-2013)." We'll
have more on this - Inner City
Press is still banned from the
UN, no answers to questions,
we will not cease.
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. And
this:
Pakistan supports
Guterres, here.
Apparently, Paul Biya's
Cameroon and other states like
that of narco Juan Orlando
Hernandez are asked to be more
quiet with their support for
their favorite dictator
supporter, Antonio Guterres,
for now. Watch this site.
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