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Guterres Moves To Steal 2d Term UNESCO
Azoulay Hits A New Low In Paris
By Matthew
Russell Lee &
sources,
Exclusive
UN GATE, March
26 –
This week
brought to the
fore one of
the most
unbelievable
scandals ever
experienced at
the UN level -
pending
Antonio
Guterres'
already begun
drive to steal
a second term
as SG.
This
one
concerns the
intentional
spoiling of
the democratic
electoral
process for
the Head of a
UN agency. And
again, it
comes from
UNESCO in
Paris.
The procedure
for the
nomination of
the Director
general of
UNESCO is
described
here:
https://en.unesco.org/executive-board/dg-candidate-2021.
By his letter
of December
14, 2020, the
Chairman of
the Executive
board, Agapito
MBA MOKUY,
requested
nominations
from Member
States for the
DG position
and set the
deadline for
submitting
candidates at
March 15,
2021.
By
the deadline
of 15 March
2021, MBA
MOKUY had
received two
nominations:
the one from
France - the
current DG, A.
Azoulay, and
the one of
Kyrgyzstan -
A.B.
Beishenaliev,
Minister of
Education and
Science of the
Kyrgyz
Republic.
His
application
was submitted
to the
Chairman of
the Executive
board by
official
governmental
letter ref:
06-2/455 dated
March 11,
2021, that is
to say full
four days
before the
fixed
deadline.
In a move of
intellectual
and
institutional
dishonesty,
that will
remain and
mark this dark
period for
UNESCO, the
Chairman of
the Executive
board MBA
MOKUY kept
this second
candidacy
secret from
member states.
He
shared it
however with
the French DG
Azoulay and
this gave him
the upper hand
for
negotiating
and
subsequently
drawing a
personal gain.
Indeed, the
Chairman is
ending his
mandate in few
months, and in
order to
secure his
bright future,
he agreed to
postpone the
announcement
of the
candidacies
under the
condition that
after her
reelection,
MBA MOKUY will
get from
Azoulay an ADG
position at
UNESCO.
Thus,
instead of
announcing the
two
candidacies on
the next day
after the
deadline, 16
March, as all
his
predecessors
had done in
their times,
he gave France
the time it
needed to put
paramount
pressure on
the government
of Kyrgyzstan
to promptly
withdraw its
candidacy.
In
the end, one
week later, on
March 22,
2021, the
application of
Mr. A.B.
Beishenaliev
was withdrawn
by Note
Verbale N°
194/3 sent to
MBA MOKUY by
the Embassy of
the Kyrgyz
Republic in
Paris. There
were two
candidates for
one full week,
and nobody
knew about it
thanks to MBA
MOKUY.
The day
that followed
the withdrawal
of the second
candidate,
March 23,
2021, the
Chairman of
the Executive
Board sent his
circular
letter to
inform Member
States that
there is only
one candidate
for DG of
UNESCO. In
paragraph two
of his letter,
he shamelessly
lied by
stating to the
entire world
that he had
received only
one
candidature.
Letter here.
This is more
than criminal.
It sheds
doubts about
the whole
procedure.
An
additional
charge against
MBA MOKUY
resides in the
following fact
- it has
happened in
the past, in
the rich
history of the
United
Nations, that
a candidate
was presented
and then
withdrawn by
its
government.
But in this
case, in his
letter of
March 23,
Agapito MBA
MOKUY should
have clearly
indicated that
by the
deadline of
March 15 there
were actually
two candidates
and that
subsequently
the Kyrgyz
government
decided to
withdraw its
own.
However,
instead of
playing the
transparency
game, he opted
for the worst
of the
diplomatic
approaches
thus spoiling
the whole
election
procedure. The
explanations
that MBA MOKUY
will have to
provide to his
fellow
ambassadors
following the
exposure by
Inner City
Press of this
monumental
scandal and
the approach
crafted
together with
the Director
general to
keep this
affair totally
secret, will
do nothing but
sink them both
further.
The
French
succeeded to
eliminate the
other
candidacy, but
at the price
of joining the
dictators’
club with
their
well-established
tradition to
get rid of any
potential
opposition.
Bullying
member states
since the
election of
Azoulay in
2017 was a
usual
practice. With
the above,
that practice
has been taken
to a new,
unreached
before,
political
dimension.
An
outraged by
those
developments
high official
of UNESCO said
to Inner City
Press: “There
are ways to
restore the
flawed
procedure.
First, Agapito
MBA MOKUY
ought to send
an addendum
with the two
names and a
note that the
second
candidacy has
been
withdrawn.
Then, as a
direct
consequence of
his unlawful
deeds, MBA
MOKUY must
resign
immediately.
The
Board may then
decide to
extend the
candidacies
deadline for
another few
months in
order to clean
the current
procedure from
the legitimate
suspicions”.
For two years
now, Inner
City Press is
exposing the
countless
financial and
administrative
transgressions
perpetrated by
Azoulay and
her team.
Fraud,
abuse of
power,
promotion of
the mistress
of the Head of
her Cabinet
Kacyanides,
the detailed
list of
wrongdoings
largely
justifies the
sacking of
both from the
organization.
Another
scandal that
went beyond
the boldest
imagination
was related to
the team of
French secret
service agents
accessing the
UNESCO
building with
the approval
by the Cabinet
of DG
Azoulay.
And now that.
This
unprecedented
interference
in the DG
selection,
that is in
line with the
North Korean
‘democratic’
practices,
will certainly
raise some
concerns by
the big
European and
Nordic
democracies.
But will those
reactions be
strong enough
to change the
directorship
of UNESCO is
an open
question.
For
sure, the US
government
must think
twice before
even
considering
rejoining
UNESCO, this
rotten by
corruption and
anti-democratic
rituals
organization.
Watch this
site.
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