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Opposing Guterres Inner City Press Filed
to PGA & Asked US State Dept Now
Whistleblower Files
By Matthew
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 31 – 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 1002nd 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, fiveweeks of dodging and
blockage, now of six
From: Emma Reilly
Date: Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at
10:39 PM
Subject: Application for post
of Secretary-General
To: opga@un.org,
tegan.brink@un.org,
usun.newyork
Matthew R. Lee
(@InnerCityPress
/
@MatthewLeeICP)
Your
Excellencies,
Kindly find attached my
application for the post of
Secretary-General, along with
a document outlining
accountability gaps that
serves as my vision
statement. As I note in
my cover letter, I intend this
application to raise necessary
questions about UN reform,
ensuring that election by
acclamation is not abused to
further weaken accountability
of UN staff who commit
misconduct. I look
forward to hearing from
you. Kind regards, Emma
Reilly:
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 here
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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