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PGA Bozkir Takes Half Million From Qatar
Refuses To Say Who Works For Him or Pays
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Periscope
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UN GATE, Sept 18
– In the United Nations, a
list of speakers for the UN
General Assembly week Sept
22-29 has been released, photo
here.
On
September 14, the day before
Volkan Bozkir takes over as
President of the General
Assembly, Inner City Press
wrote to his spokesperson
Brenden Varma "to request the
password(s) to access and ask
a question at the September 15
press conference."
Varma
replied, "This will be my
first hybrid press conference,
and I’m not sure how virtual
access works. Please follow up
with MALU."
MALU, run by Melissa Fleming,
has not answered. So Inner
City Press emailed Varma this
question: Why is there NO
CONTENT on the PGA's "Ethics
and Transparency" page, given
that this was the lone reform
after it was shown that PGA
Ashe took bribes from Ng Lap
Seng, and PGA Kutesa arranged
bribes from CEFC China Energy?
How much did Mr. Bozkir spend
on his campaign for PGA? Who
paid for all travel? Who are
the staff members and who is
paying each one?
The
response? Brenden Varma,
"spokesman" of PGA, blocked
Inner City Press on Twitter.
Photo here.
This is the UN, and Bozkir.
Now while
refusing all of Inner City
Press' written questions about
it while entertaining Al
Jazeera's questions, it
emerges that Bozkir took
$500,000 from Qatar - for
what? - and still refuses to
disclose who works for him,
much less who pays them.
Interim profiles here
(Toni-Shae Freckleton, and
Inga Kanchaveli) and here
(Nehali Anupriya - nepotism).
Inner City Press should be
immediately admitted for UNGA
2020 and electronic briefings.
Watch this site.
Most
resident correspondents write
nothing, or only propaganda.
And who will decide on these
"very limited non-resident"
[sic] who will be allowed in?
Varma called on three separate
Turkish media... This is the
beginning of a series. Thread
here.
In the
first morning there are China
and Russia, Qatar, Morocco and
Iran. Cameroon's Paul
Biya is on Friday
September 24. Watch this site.
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