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Smokescreen at UNESCO Belatedly Trashed by
Staff Assoc Amid Guterres Scams
By Matthew
Russell Lee &
sources,
Exclusive
UN GATE, Feb 9 –Less
than ten days
ago, on 30
January, Inner
City Press
reported the
scandalous
situation and
exposed the
efforts by DG
Azoulay and
her hopeless
administration
to keep staff
and
ambassadors
uninformed
about the
COVID-19
propagation (here)
Our
article
specifically
brought to
light the
infection of
KMI staff
members and
today, the
International
Staff
Association of
UNESCO sent
the following
message on
that very same
subject:
“From:
AIPU aipu [at] unesco.org
Sent: Tuesday,
9 February
2021 - To:
Liste.UNESCO-HQ;
Liste.UNESCO-FIELD;
Liste.IIEP
> Subject:
COVID
19/VACCIN
Dear
Colleagues, We
are surprised
that to this
day, the
Administration
has not deemed
it necessary
to inform
staff of the
recent
situation of
COVID-19 cases
within KMI,
where a source
of infection
with about
twenty
contaminated
members has
been
identified.
Has an
investigation
been carried
out by the
Administration
to determine
its cause and
to assess
whether all
sanitary
measures have
been observed?
We believe
that it would
have been
appropriate on
the part of
the
Administration,
in its last
message of
February 4, to
inform the
staff of the
real situation
so that each
colleague may
act in full
knowledge of
the facts
since, as we
may recall,
physical
presence at
the office is
requested for
a certain
number of
colleagues.
The
Administration
has the duty
to inform and
protect its
staff.
Furthermore,
it is
regrettable to
note that
while some
sister
agencies,
namely the
Rome-based UN
Agencies, are
taking a
proactive
approach to
secure doses
from the
Italian
government to
be
administered
to their
personnel and
dependents,
our
Administration
takes a
bystander role
and instructs
the staff to
deal directly
with the host
country.
Signed: Maxime
BUN, ISAU
President.”
It is good
that the ISAU
President is
reading our
publications
and is
reacting
promptly to
the alarming
facts revealed
by Inner City
Press, even as
Guterres and
his censors
Dujarric and
Fleming refuse
to answer any
questions.
What is
missing in his
message though
is a concern
about the
intrigues of
Azoulay and
ADG/Admin
Jeffreys to
escape from
accountability
and water down
their
evidenced lack
of care for
the staff. The
looming danger
for both of
them being the
possible
passing away
of one of
those
infected, a
death case
would bring a
hell of a
problem that
Azoulay would
have to face
it this
time.
This risk is
real. With
more than one
hundred staff
members
infected,
several of
them
hospitalized
in intensive
care units in
Paris, and one
of them in a
critical
condition -,
the UNESCO
leadership is
petrified and
fully aware
about the
potential
trouble
ahead.
Since
the outset, in
2020, DG
Azoulay
downplayed the
coronavirus
risks. By
incompetence
and greed, she
jeopardized
the lives of
staff members
but also of
permanent
representatives
of member
states.
Instead
of taking the
COVID-19
threat
seriously and
preparing the
institution
for it, nasty
jokes were
made at
internal
meetings by
ADG/ADM
Nicholas
Jeffreys and
Director
Cabinet
Kacyanides
about the
coronavirus
being a “great
opportunity
for getting
rid once and
for all of
ambassadors
criticizing
the French DG
Azoulay and of
staff
protesting
against their
current
working
conditions…”.
For
months, DG
Azoulay and
her popinjay
Frimin Matoko,
the ADG for
external
relations, did
not bother to
inform member
states about
the
deteriorating
COVID
situation and
considered
unimportant to
keep them
abreast.
Similarly, the
Chairman of
the Executive
board, Agapito
Mba Mokuy did
not consider
useful to
request
Azoulay to
give details
about the
COVID
situation in
the
organization.
Thus,
member states
were kept
fully in the
dark as usual.
This is
another
example of how
the top
management of
UNESCO is
mismanaging
the Agency and
running away
from its
institutional
responsibility
while getting
fat salaries
paid by
tax-payers
worldwide.
The situation
of UNESCO is
obviously
worrying, but
it’s still not
enough for the
ambassadors to
start
rectifying the
corrupted
management
style of the
French DG
Azoulay.
UNESCO lost it
all and
reached that
level of
criminal
foolhardiness
in only 3
years of the
French
mandate.
Ambassadors
can therefore
easily imagine
the
consequences
of another
4-year
mandate. We
will have more
on that. Watch
this site.
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