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PGA Bozkir Uses Office For Turkey Hides
Who Pays Who and Blocks Inner City Press
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Periscope
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UN GATE, Sept 26
– 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.
Ghoulishly, while blocking
Inner City Press and refusing
its question about PGA Office
transparency, Varma bragged
that the Office's 33 staff
come from 30 countries - but
the link was blocked to Inner
City Press' IP address. Still,
for now we have this
(Turkey-heavy) list, and the
"Ethics" page still doesn't
say who pays them. They should
be ashamed and we'll have more
on this, and these: "Tegan
Brink, Chef de Cabinet, SENIOR
CABINET Farrukh Khan, Deputy
Chef de Cabinet; Oncu Keceli
[Turkish], Deputy Chef de
Cabinet; Ceren Ozgur Senior
Political Adviser [Turkish
dipomat]; Alexandre Stutzmann,
Special Adviser, UN 75
Strategy & Implementation
ADMINISTRATION
Faisal Ibrahim, Special
Adviser to the Chef de Cabinet
& Head of Administration;
Keithlin Caroo, Personal
Assistant to the President of
the General Assembly; Evelyn
Ojwang, Executive Assistant to
the Chef de Cabinet; Meriem
Heddache, Administrative
Assistant
COMMUNICATIONS
& MEDIA Brenden Varma,
Director of Communications
& Spokesperson [censor];
Orla Murphy, Speechwriter; Amy
Quantrill, Deputy Spokesperson
& Lead Speechwriter [paid
for by UK?]; Carl Mercer,
Communications Adviser &
Speechwriter; Denise Kling,
Communications Adviser; Nevena
Toaso, UN75 Communications
& Events
PEACE AND
SECURITY Saada Hassan, Team
Leader; Woo-jung Han, Senior
Adviser; Hanizah Mohd
Izzuddin, Adviser; Muhammed
Enes Uslu, Adviser
SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT Toni-Shae
Freckleton, Team Leader; LIU
Shaoxuan, Adviser; Mohammed
Shaker, Adviser; Sara Al
Ahmed, Adviser; Nehali
Anupriya, Adviser
HUMAN RIGHTS [ha]
& HUMANITARIAN Hila Wesa,
Team Leader; Gail Farngalo,
Senior Adviser and Gender
Equality Lead; Igor Bondiuk
Adviser' Anna Fritzsche
Adviser
REFORM [ha],
LEGAL AND BUDGET Fernando
Marani, Team Leader &
Chief Legal Adviser [that's a
laugh - open censorship];
Peter Stone Senior Adviser;
Inga Kanchaveli Senior
Adviser; Ahmad Almaududy Amri
Adviser; Youssef El Mezouaghi
Adviser."
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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