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Angola Sudan Diplomats Take Public Funded Jobs
In Guterres UN
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive, Video
UN GATE, Oct 11 –
From
the corrupt UN
of Antonio
Guterres in New
York, the
whole UN
system has
been
corrupted,
including
UNESCO. For
two weeks
starting
today, member
states will
have the
opportunity to
sanction the
pathetic
administration
of the French
director
general Audrey
Azoulay. Inner
City Press
understands
that questions
about the
results of the
recent
investigations
by IOS will
also be raised
during the
private
session of the
Board.
Under
the leadership
of Antonio
Guterres the
whole UN is
now
contaminated
and severely
affected by
mismanagement
and
corruption.
UNESCO is no
exception. The
Paris based
organization
suffers the
same endemic
problems like
those of her
bigger sister
in New
York.
The
specialized in
education and
culture agency
is shaken by
internal
managerial
problems. The
staff
complains of
abuse of
authority,
harassment,
and widespread
discrimination
favoring
exclusively
French
nationals.
More and more
signals are
sent to IOS
reporting
experiences of
blatant abuse
of authority,
typically
involving the
granting of
preferential
treatment for
recruitment or
promotion of
close friends
or even family
members of
official
diplomats
representing
member states
to
UNESCO.
Thus,
as Inner City
Press already
reported, the
son of the
Brazilian
Ambassador to
UNESCO got a
position in
the Division
for external
relations
under Edouard
Matoko’s full
responsibility.
Furthermore,
another
current member
of the
Executive
Board, the
Ambassador of
Sudan, capably
managed to
appoint the
only young
person from
his country
deserving to
get a position
as young
professional
at UNESCO and
strangely
enough it
occurred that
this was his
own daughter.
The
young lady,
born in 1990,
was appointed
by UNESCO’s
D-G Azoulay in
the Sector for
Education,
with the
blessing of
the Italian
ADG for
Education
Stefania
Giannini. High
officials from
the education
sector
contacted
Inner City
Press and said
that never
before traffic
of influence
of that
magnitude had
happened at
UNESCO in such
unashamed
manner. But
this is the UN
system
under
Guterres.
The
arrogant
disrespect for
rules and
procedures and
the absence of
basic moral
decency of the
French
administration
is becoming
the norm for
running
UNESCO.
Both the
Ambassadors of
Brazil and of
Sudan are
expected to
speak strong,
loud and clear
in favor of
the lousy
reforms of DG
Azoualy next
Monday at the
plenary of the
Executive
Board.
This
will come as
no surprise
for those
aware of the
preferential
treatment
granted to
both by the
French DG
Azoulay.
Non-Executive
Board family
members are
also involved.
The son and
the
daughter-in-law
of the
Ambassador of
Iraq also got
a temporary
(for the time
being) job at
UNESCO, and
the daughter
of the Consul
of Angola to
France got a
contract in
the Division
for external
relations.
Anywhere else,
these crimes
would result
in incarceration.
But this is Big
Tony's UN
system - he lets
his own son
Pedro
Guimarães e
Melo De
Oliveira
Guterres
use the
UN name to make
money, why
should he
begrudge the
member states?
Again
and again, it
is the ADG for
external
relations
Edouard Matoko
from Congo who
is playing his
best yes-man
role for
Azoulay, so as
to capably
ensure that
the
organization
is transformed
into a cushy
residence for
Ambassadors’
family members
with the
desperate hope
to get
political
support for DG
Azoulay.
The
only way to
hold back
UNESCO from
cronyism,
abuse of
power,
embezzlement
and cynical
dismantling of
its modus
operandi
and core
values is to
have member
states fixing
the limits of
what is
acceptable and
what is not.
Until this is
properly done,
corruption
will prosper
and the
enforcement of
respect for
rules and
regulations
will remain a
wishful
thinking.
Only
member states
can prevent
demolishing
the
organization
by imposing to
DG Azoulay a
decisional
framework for
increasing
leadership
effectiveness,
creating
fairness and
transparency
and most
importantly
enhancing
accountability
of her
administration
as concerns
its
decision-making
processes and
behavior
across all
levels at
UNESCO.
We will have
more on
that.
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