| In Corrupt UN of Guterres UNESCO
Links of Alexandra de Taddeo Embroil Azoulay
in Macron Scandal
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Video
UN GATE, Feb 17 –
As
anticipated by
Inner City
Press last
December last,
the
interference
of French
national
politics in
UNESCO’s
business can
only further
undermine the
credibility of
the UN agency,
already
reeling in the
corrupt UN
system of
Antonio
Guterres. The name
of the day:
Alexandra de Taddeo,
and UNESCO
links
On December
20, 2019
Inner City
Press exposed
the damages
caused by the
French DG at
UNESCO, a
champion of
scheming
conflict of
interests and
abuse of
power. Inner
City Press pointed
out that:
“in 2019, DG
Audrey Azoulay
decided to
step-up her
involvement in
the French
political life
by giving a
clear support
to the
candidate for
the
position of
Mayor of Paris
to her good
friend Cedric
Villani, who
was appointed
by DG Azoulay
as member of
the High-Level
Reflection
Group created
by UNESCO for
advising on
its
transformation.
(There is
also, of
course, Agnes
Buzyn).
This
is another but
first-ever
example of the
use and misuse
of UNESCO by
the Director
general
Azoulay who is
intentionally
ignoring all
rules and
diplomatic
practices in
order to give
a helping hand
and
international
visibility to
her political
French friend
in the
elections to
be held early
next
year.
This is also
the first
juncture for
getting into
serious
trouble with
her mentor and
protector, the
current French
President
Emanuel
Macron.
As political
observers in
France
underline,
nowadays the
Villani-Griveaux
political duel
irritates and
exasperates
Macron to the
utmost.
“The
President of
the French
Republic is in
a hurry to end
the
fratricidal
confrontation
in Paris by
the two
eminent
members of his
political
movement and
he clearly did
not appreciate
to have Audrey
Azoulay taking
a side in this
unpleasant for
him rivalry,"
one of Inner
City Press' political
sources
in
Paris,
expert also in
FrancAfrique,
said.
The major top
question
remaining here
is, “why the
hell DG
Azoulay is
allowed to get
UNESCO
involved into
French
politics to
that extend”,
said to Inner
City Press a
member of an
EU country
here in New
York. “Those
are clearly
political
games with
huge long-term
consequences
that will
undermine
utterly the
credibility of
UNESCO as a
depoliticized
organization”.”
And
now, less than
two months
later, the sex
tape showing
Emmanuel
Macron's
political ally
and close
friend
Benjamin
Griveaux
performing a
sex act while
'sexting' a
woman put an
end abruptly
to the above
dilemma. The
road was
cleaned for
Villani - or Agnes
Buzyn --
despite the
new candidacy
presented by
the political
party of
Macron. The
resignation of
Griveaux
enraged many
in France, but
above all it
sharply
enraged the
President
Macron.
Russian
dissident
artist Pyotr
Pavlensky, who
famously
nailed his
privates to
Red Square,
admitted to
publishing the
text messages
and the
explicit video
sent by
Griveaux to
the
unidentified
woman at that
time on
Friday.
Pavlensky is
well known for
his acts of
protest,
including
sewing his
lips. What is
less known, is
that the
woman, today
identified as
Alexandra de
Taddeo, was
working at
UNESCO until
recently. What
were her
responsibilities
within the
Education
Sector of
UNESCO is yet
to be
clarified.
Also
to be
clarified by
member states,
is why the
constitutional
requirement
for any UN
staff to stay
out of
national
politics was
and is still
is superbly
and proudly
ignored by DG
Azoulay since
her election
to that
position. By
following her
comradeship
based narrow
political
interests, she
got involved
in a unwanted
political
machination
that was on
display last
Friday when
President
Emmanuel
Macron's
candidate for
Paris mayor
pulled out of
the race after
it was
admitted he
sent explicit
content of a
sexual
intercourse to
a woman
not his wife,
but is an
employee of DG
Audrey
Azoulay.
Several
sources at
UNESCO
indicate that
the
situation of
Benjamin
Griveaux could
have been
conspired at
UNESCO, in
relation with
Alexandra de
Taddeo, by the
Cabinet of
Audrey
Azoulay,
initially in
order to clean
the road for
her good
friend Cedric
Villani (Macron
has put
forward his health
minister Agnes
Buzyn.)
It
is a question
of days before
member states
request this
week an
investigation
to find out
the exact
responsibilities
and
immediately
fire those
accountable
for this
unprecedented
fiasco so as
to ensure at
least one
bright spot in
the otherwise
murky sea of
impunity at
UNESCO.
We will have
more on that.
Watch this
site.
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