| At UNESCO To Retaliate
Azoulay Uses French Interior Ministry Spy
Bonetti and Bath Like Guterres
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive, Video
UN GATE, Oct 31 –
From
the corrupt UN
of Antonio
Guterres in New
York, the
whole UN
system has
been
corrupted,
including
UNESCO. Under
Guterres,
UNESCO now
ruled by
practices
worthy, some
say, of Vichy.
Some member
states are
deeply
concerned and
outraged
regarding the
situation at
UNESCO. Others
are rather
pleased as it
corresponds
better to the
reality of
their
respective
authoritarian
regimes.
Following
the exposure
by banned Inner
City Press
of several of
the internal
scandals, the
administration
of the French
director
general Audrey
Azoulay has
organized a
witch-hunt as
Guterres did,
with raids
and
retaliation, in
order to try
to identify Inner
City
Press'
sources.
It is
an open secret
inside UNESCO
that the Quai
d’Orsay and
the Elysée are
ruling the
organization
in place of
the
good-looking
marionette,
says one high
official of
the agency.
However, few
people know
that earlier
this month the
Cabinet of
Audrey Azoulay
requested the
help of the
French
ministry of
Interior in
order to
launch an
undercover
surveillance
operation of
private
e-mails and
mobile phones
that would
help
identifying
the
whistleblowers
inside the house.
Following
the fiasco of
the Director
general
Azoulay during
the Executive
Board of
UNESCO, when
she couldn’t
secure enough
support from
member states
neither for
her draft
budget nor for
her reform
policies, it
was decided to
accelerate the
identification
and
surveillance
of all those
potentially
undermining
the
administration
of Audrey
Azoulay.
The
list of people
then got
extended, and
included even
the two staff
unions
presidents and
some
representatives
of permanent
delegations to
UNESCO
particularly truth-telling
against
Azoulay’s
management
style.
The
undercover
surveillance
operation is
coordinated by
Flavio Bonetti
from the
Cabinet of
Audrey Azoulay
and former
deputy prefect
of the
Centre-Val de
Loire region,
who started
his career at
the French
ministry of
Interior in
2014, before
joining UNESCO
last year as a
knowledgeable
UN staff
member.
In this
important
endeavor, Mr
Bonetti is
capably
assisted by
the other
member of the
Cabinet
usually used
for the dirty
work and
meanest tasks,
Mr Sachin
Bath. Bath,
who is at
UNESCO for
many years is
the perfect
mole for
playing both
sides and
helping
identifying
the people and
permanent
delegations
deserving to
be under
surveillance.
His next job
actually will
be to
infiltrate the
closed circle
of elected
member states
at the
governing
bodies
secretariat.
This is
not the first
effort to
obtain
information
illegally. In
order to get
access to
selective
intelligence
data, Audrey
Azoulay
appointed in
the department
for external
relations two
high officials
from a Middle
East country
with famous
reputation in
technological
surveillance.
Again,
the yes-man of
Audrey
Azoulay, Mr
Edouard
Matoko, chief
of this
department,
did keenly the
dirty job and
appointed them
by breaching
all existing
rules.
The main
concern of the
Director of
the Cabinet of
Azoulay,
Nikolas
Kassianides is
to get the job
done prior to
the General
Conference of
UNESCO that is
starting in 2
weeks and for
that he does
not begrudge
those DPRK-style
practices.
Cabinet
members are
receiving
increased
authority not
seen since the
foundation of
UNESCO. The
top management
speaks to
member states
of false fears
of staff, but
the changing
of the rules
and
regulations
remind many of
the
experienced
staff members
of
totalitarian
regimes
darkest
history.
Even
more
concerning is
that the
feeling of
arrogant
impunity of
the French
administration
facilitates
the
surveillance
capacities of
its own
internal
services.
Thus, the
administration
massively
invades the
personal
rights and
freedoms of
staff.
Actually,
there is no
way to draw a
border between
the UN based
management
principles and
the French
services
administration
of
UNESCO.
The Director
of Cabinet
Nicolas
Kassianides is
given
unprecedented
power to
levels not
experienced
before,
including the
one to control
and supervise
the Deputy
Director
general of
UNESCO and the
Assistant
Directors
general of the
program
Sectors. In
private
conversations,
Audrey Azoulay
is reportedly
not denying
that the
Cabinet powers
are vastly
extended,
since the
facts are
indisputable.
However, she
pretends still
to have a
grasp on the
measures taken
by her team
for “managing
and reforming
UNESCO in
depth”.
There
is room for
doubt. Staff
associations
have voiced
their concerns
clearly last
week of seeing
alarming
practices
reemerging by
the total
absence of
respect for
rules and
regulations.
They keep
opposing the
new situation
in which top
senior
managers can
exert total
control over
the staff
including by
using
intimidation
and harassment
that force
staff members
into fear and
obedience.
This is where
UNESCO stands
today. We will
have more on
that.
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