| After Lame Duck
UNSG Guterres Steals 4
More Years for UN Rights
Commish Volker Turk
Jordan Junket
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack UN GATE,
Aug 6 – How corrupt and
decrepit has the UN system
become under Antonio Guterres,
in this case due to Guterres?
Today's example is again from
the Office of the High
Commission for Human Rights,
to which Guterres appointed
his unqualified crony Volker
Turk more than two years ago.
From OHCHR
staff - "Dear Matthew Russell
Lee, Many thanks for exposing
corruption in UN under Antonio
Guterres and his cronies like
Volker Turk Also vague mentions to the repression mentioned by civil society. This was another cozy trip with cronies and this will be the next four years, appeasement and avoid sensitive topics, as he has done with the Uighur in China or the political repression in Cuba. Silence in return for money. What is the outcome of his trip to Jordan? Nothing as usual? Any agreement to change repressive legislation? Political reforms? Prisoners released? Fat chance! Nice photos and a prize. Volker Turk is the master of double standards. Brave when there is no risk and coward when there is. Busy with irrelevant topics to avoid important ones. Narcissist ultimate apparatchik and soulless bureaucrat. Member states have already voted for an irrelevant High Commissioner and a kleptocracy of cronies. First term with any tangible result. Second term not promising. He is off the hook. Will Rebecca Gryspan or a new SG will dare to remove him? That’s a real test for the SG candidate’s test to change the UN. Amb Waltz, the
ball is on your court." Fat chance. So far,
nothing from Mike Waltz,
previously seen skydiving in
France then on a lone Sunday
show on CBS, unannounced -
self-booked? Now he is not
answering on State's alleged
leaks to Iran, nor on not
defending US press at the
UN.Meanwhile both Big Tony and
Amina junketed on April 15 to
the IMF which Inner City Press
is accredited to cover, and at
which it asked questions - but
not of Tony, as UNCTAD denied
Inner City Press to its "side
event." The UN is dying, or
being killed off. There's a new
NextSG candidate, Maria
Fernanda Espinosa. Two days
ago she and her sponsor
Antigua and Barbuda were sent
a questionnaire about about
this. So far, nothing. Watch
this site. Inner City Press
re-applied to re-enter the UN
on June 19, 2025 - no answer
at all from Melissa Fleming,
Tel Mekel, Stephane Dujarric
for six months, then a denial
with no reason at all given.
Today's UN is corrupt.
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Friday, August 7, 2026
After Lame Duck UNSG Guterres Steals 4 More Years for UN Rights Commish Volker Turk Jordan Junket
