UNSC
Website Given To DPA Chief of
Staff's Husband, Quid Pro Quo
For Top SCAD Post
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive, video
UNITED NATIONS,
May 24 – At the UN, even the
Security Council's website is
a prize to quietly be given to
a top official's spouse, with
no competition or
transparency. Inner City Press
has been exclusively informed
by whistleblowers that
Department of Political
Affairs chief of staff Kyoko
Shiotani's husband John van
Rosendaal has been brought in
to run the Council's website,
as if the UN and its Security
Council were a small business
suffused in nepotism. Worse,
when Inner City Press reported
then asked UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres'
spokesman Stephane Dujarric
about it, rather than assuring
it would be investigated he
blathered that "I'm sure all the
rules were followed." Since as
of yet no investigation has
been started, just as Guterres
has yet to order even an audit
of the Patrick Ho / CEFC
bribery scandal, Inner City
Press now exclusively adds
this. Multiple outraged DPA
whistleblowers inform Inner
City Press that chief of staff Kyoko Shiotani
"got" Hasmik Egian the D2 post
as head of UN Security Council
Affairs with, they say, the
quid pro quo that Shiotani's
"self-employed" husband would
then be given a post. One
source said - and we report
without glee or pleasure -
"that is grounds for
dismissal. Rosemary DiCarlo
must immediately order an OIOS
investigation." But is that
enough? Another added,
"Guterres should see that
keeping on a spokesman who is
so openly contemptuous, and
automatic denials and no
follow up, hurts everyone."
We'll have more on this. On
May 24, as part of its
exclusive reporting, Inner
City Press asked UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres'
spokesman Stephane Dujarric
about it. Video here.
From the UN transcript:
Inner City Press: people that
work in your UN Department of
Political Affairs (DPA) have
been confused and surprised to
see, according to them, that
the husband of the Chief of
Staff, Kyoko Shiotani, a John
van Rosendaal, has been
designated to run the Security
Council's website. They…
they found it kind of strange
because there was… there was
no need for it. He was
brought in without any
competition, according to
them, and it seemed like a
classic case of nepotism and
affecting the Security Council
itself. So, I'm
wondering… maybe you don't
have the information at your
fingertips, but can you find
out how it is that… that it's…
I've seen this thing.
He's now called a senior
programme officer after being
a self-employed consultant.
Spokesman: I'm not aware
of the case, and I'm sure all
the rules were followed.
Carole?
Inner City Press: How
are you so sure?" This was not
answered. On LinkedIn, van
Rosendaal lists
himself as “Strategic
Communications Consultant at
United Nations” as well as
Self-Employed, Photographic
Wanderings.
Here
is van Rosendaal's website,
Photographic Wanderings dot
com: “Professionally, I’ve
worked as a journalist, media
company manager and
communications consultant. I
plan to combine my passion and
my expertise to build this
site into something
interesting, useful and
entertaining. I’m originally
Dutch but left Holland in
1989. Since then I’ve mostly
lived in or close to New York,
with stints in Switzerland,
Cyprus and Austria.”
He's a
communications strategist with
39 Twitter followers. Now he's
to run the Security Council's
website. Why not?
Inner City
Press asks, how did this "self
employed communications
consultant" (with 39 Twitter
followers) become, as his
signature block now says,
"Senior Program Officer,
Security Council Affairs
Division"?
This is
the UN of Antonio Guterres.
Rosemary DiCarlo has just
taken over at DPA. Guterres
and his spokesman Stephane
Dujarric banned Inner City
Press from covering the
ceremony where Dicarlo
presumably pledged to serve
the public. It is impossible
to know since UNTV did not
film it and Inner City Press
was then and now banned from
its own livestream Periscope
broadcast on Guterres' 38th
floor.
Now what will
DiCarlo, or perhaps despite
his spokesman's knee-jerk
defenses of and evictions for
anything the UN does Guterres
who is already charged with
overseeing cover ups of sexual
harassment in the IAEA, do?
Watch this site.
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