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Opposing Guterres Inner City Press Filed
to PGA Now Sixth Asks Of 38th Floor
Failures
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 29 – 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 1000th day
for daring to ask about his
finances and failures, he has
collaborators.
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 and now
March 2021, Bozkir refused to
circulate the letter of UN
staffer candidate Arora
Akanksha.
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, five weeks of dodging
and blockage, now of six:
From:
unhurtdignity Date: Mon, Mar
29, 2021 at 6:57 PM Subject:
UN Secretary-General Female
Candidate - Fátima Nouinou To:
Matthew R. Lee I would like to
inform you that I am a
Candidate from Turkey for the
Position of the United
Nations Secretary-General in
2022. I decided to run in
April 2019, I spent 2020 doing
research and preparing my work
plan, and I started my
campaign in 2021. By now, I
have submitted my Nomination
requests to
my Citizenship
Country Turkey, my
Origin Country Spain
and my
Residence Country USA.
I have also submitted my
Nomination requests to
the President of the General
Assembly and the five
Permanent Members of the
Security Council, as well
as Israel, Australia, New
Zealand and Canada while
I am in the process of sending
my
Nomination requests to
the rest of the Security
Council Members and other
Member States then the
Regional Organizations.
I have received a letter from
the Chef de Cabinet of
the King of Spain
supporting my
UNSG Candidacy and
submitting it to the Spanish
Foreign Affairs, European
Union and Cooperation...
I have heard that
Member States may consider the
extension of Mr. Guterres’
term. If this happens, it
would be a Global Holocaust.
1- Why is SG Guterres
quiet about Sexual
Exploitation and Abuse in
Peacekeeping Missions? 2-
Why is DSG quiet about the
kidnapping of Nigerian Girls
while she is from Nigeria?3-
Why does Mr. Guterres
want to extend his term while
he has done nothing to
solve political conflicts
in Myanmar, Yemen, Lebanon,
Syria, Iraq, Libya, Western
Sahara, Xinjiang
and Mozambique? Neither
did he move a finger to talk
about the rape of children in
Peacekeeping? Should you
require to interview
me or write about me, I
will be more than happy to
join. Please accept my
sincere regards, Fátima
Nouinou Candidate for UN
Secretary-General in 2022
Note: One
of the reasons Inner City
Press filed was to ensure that
actual opponents to Guterres,
who know of and will raise his
abuses, would be in.
On March 26,
Inner City Press asked US
State Department Ambassador
Erica Barks-Ruggles this:
MS PORTER:
We will go to the line of
Matthew Russell Lee.
QUESTION:
One of the controversies right
now in the UN is this – if
Antonio Guterres is up for
re-election, and the question
is whether there will be other
candidates. There are at
least four candidates who have
provided names and CVs, but
they haven’t been circulated
to the member-states both by
the president of the General
Assembly you mentioned and
even by the U.S. mission this
month, the president of the
Security Council. I
wanted to know what’s the
administration’s – I mean,
does that seem right? Is
that something that the
Secretary’s going to
discuss? And what’s the
mission’s thinking on not
having circulated names during
this month? And one
other thing, it’s something
that the UN has – the council
has not worked on, but does
the administration think that
there’s a UN role in dealing
with the ongoing kind of mass
killings in the Anglophone
areas of Cameroon? The
issue has been going on for
some years and the Council has
had a few AOBs, but never
actually met on or done
anything on.
AMBASSADOR
BARKS-RUGGLES: On
the secretary-general race,
we, of course, as members of
the Council and permanent
members of the Council, will
be very much engaged in this
process. We obviously
work closely with the current
secretary-general and will
look forward to that strong
and constructive relationship
continuing, and I think that
that’s – that will be part of
the discussions that Secretary
Blinken will have with the
secretary-general. But
I’m not going to get into the
details of diplomatic
discussions. On
Cameroon, I’m sorry. I
don’t have anything for you on
that at this point. It
has not been discussed in the
Security Council up to this
point.
We'll have more
on this.
On March
25, Bozkir's spokesman Brenden
Varma, who blocks Inner City
Press on Twitter, announced
that "there is only one
candidate" and that he will
hold a North Korea-like
one-man debate on May 7.
Debate? This is corruption. We
will have more on this. Watch
this site.
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