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Corrupt UN of Guterres UNESCO Staff Union
Undercut By Let Them Eat Cake Azoulay
By Matthew
Russell Lee &
sources,
Exclusive
UN GATE, Dec 10 – UNESCO, like the
whole UN system under Antonio
Guterres is falling apart into
abyssal nonsense and
corruption. A major repressive
move was made today at UNESCO
by the administration of DG
Azoulay in response to the
legitimate written
communication sent out by the
President of the STU union to
the staff this morning.
The message
rightly exposed the crisis and
the weaknesses in the
management of the security
service of the Paris based UN
Agency. This security service
is under severe running strain
while its efficient
functioning remains highly
critical in the context of
increasing level of terrorist
threats in the host
country.
Text of the email
of the STU President
here: From: STU
President Sent: jeudi 10
décembre 2020 12:01 To:
Liste.UNESCO-HQ Subject: STU -
Malaise in the Security and
Safety Service Importance:
High
Dear colleagues, Because
no Sector is immune, we would
like today to draw your
attention to the current tense
situation within the Security
and Safety Service at
Headquarters in our
Organization. Indeed,
under the guise of the
sanitary situation, a new work
organization, presented as
"exceptional", was put in
place in November and December
2020. It worsens the working
conditions of our colleagues,
the security agents, and puts
their health at risk, because
there are more security agents
at their posts at the same
time. It also affects the
balance between their private
and professional life, to
which the Administration
purports to be
committed. The
Administration's clear
determination to perpetuate
this work organization from
1st January 2021, without
consultation of the staff
associations and disregarding
all the rules enacted by the
Human Resources Manual and the
Director-General's
instructions, is unacceptable
and will not be
tolerated. Furthermore,
there is a noxious atmosphere
within this Service,
maintained by the
disrespectful and contemptuous
behavior of a superior
appointed at the end of 2019,
who also took the liberty to
threaten the President of a
representative association of
the staff, accusing him of
having the attitude of a
member of a mafia structure.
This person claims to have the
endorsement of the
Director-General, who would
approve the reforms
implemented.
On November 12,
we asked for an appointment
with the Director-General to
alert her on the matter. A
month later, we are still
waiting for a response. We
hope not to have to wait a
year and a half, like the last
time we wanted to meet
her. Best regards, The
President of
STU.
As a
result, instead of considering
measure for taking to remedy
the situation in the security
service, the DG Azoulay usual
puppies, Director HR Kazumi
Ogawa and ADG for Management
Nicholas Jeffreys, initiated
few hours later, a totally
illegal intimidating pressure
over the members of the STU
Council by emails and phone
calls. Those
totalitarian style coercions
by Ogawa and Jeffreys over the
STU were undertaken in total
violation of existing rights,
practices and rules and
procedures of the United
Nations. Moreover, unions
rights at the UN are
guaranteed by decisions
approved by member states
themselves.
The DG Azoulay
and her poor and dishonest
administration must be
therefore sanctioned and
recalled that the
international civil servants
of UNESCO and of the United
Nations system have the same
rights and freedoms that have
been recognized for all human
beings in the United Nations
Charter, the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights
and the other international
instruments concerning human
rights, adopted under the
auspices of the United
Nations. They also enjoy the
rights set out in
international labor
conventions adopted by the
International Labor
Organization.
In light of those
unusual attack against the
staff unions prerogatives,
Inner City Press contacted
senior officials working in
the security-related
administration and obtained
the following off the record
clarifications: The person
mentioned in the communiqué by
the STU President is the
French Police Commissaire
Nicolas Hergot, appointed by
Azoulay as Head of Security at
UNESCO. Since his appointment,
he regularly showed disrespect
and even disdain to his
security colleagues and
especially those from
non-European nationalities. He
became Azoulay’s jack of all
trades.
Recently, for
instance, the Director of
cabinet Kassianides requested
him to investigate about the
leak concerning his
extra-matrimonial relation
with his nice-looking
subordinate set for
promotion.
Also today, the executive
board of UNESCO experienced
its worst unproductive and
unprecedently tense plenary
closing session in its entire
history. After a pointless
debate about procedures and
nothing about substance, the
session, paid by taxpayers,
instead of closing it, the
work of the board was
adjourned and will continue
tomorrow morning. Shameful,
but this is UNESCO today,
gang-style management by the
French clique facilitated by
the eyes wide shut of
accomplices representing
European states and Nordic
countries to the
Agency.
A senior official at UNESCO
added the following: “ The
sour taste in the mouth after
the assault on the STU and
this catastrophic plenary
session of the executive board
in the same day are confirming
that the whole UNESCO is
eligible to be flushed out in
the
urinals”.
We will have more on that.
Watch this site.
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