| UN Staff Call Out OIOS As
New Book UN Betrayals Profiles
Guterres and His Failures
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NEW YORK,
Jan 24 – As the UN moves in
2026 to pick a new Secretary
General, as its last one
Antonio Guterres fails on
Ukraine, Gaza and basic
transparency, staff call for
the Office of Internal
Oversight Services he has
corrupted to be eliminated and
replaced. They sent to Inner
City Press:
"OIOS is mandated
to act independently,
objectively, and in good faith
under General Assembly
resolution 48/218 B and
Article 97 of the UN Charter.
UNDT and UNAT jurisprudence
consistently require
investigations to be thorough,
balanced, and grounded in
reliable and verifiable
evidence.
In recent cases,
including Tribunal Order No.
002 (NY/2025) and Judgment
UNDT/2024/055, serious
concerns arise regarding
selective fact-finding and
undue alignment with
management positions. Such
practices are incompatible
with the Tribunal’s settled
requirement that oversight
bodies rigorously test
allegations against
exculpatory evidence. Where
investigations lack
objectivity and independence,
resulting disciplinary
decisions cannot be sustained
in law. Meaningful structural
reform is therefore required
to restore credibility and
ensure compliance with
established jurisprudence,
including consideration of
dissolving OIOS and internal
legal counsel functions and
outsourcing oversight to
independent external
mechanisms or advanced
AI-based systems."
This
follow a new book being
published.
It is "United
Nations Betrayals: From
Election Stolen by Guterres to
Bribes and Banning of the
Press," by Matthew Russell Lee
(who quickly discloses that he
has been ousted and banned
from the UN by Guterres, for
his reporting).
A noted
by New York Magazine on Lee's
Maximum Maxwell book,
at times here he uses the
character Kurt Wheelock, who
first appeared in his
Predatory Bender.
The book
begins with Guterres beating
out female candidates for the
UNSG post, after a murky year
being paid by Lisbon-based
Gulbenkian Foundation. The
book digs into the bid by the
China Energy Fund Committee,
convicted of UN bribery, for
Gulbenkian's oil company.
Readers can draw their own
conclusion, including on the
need for SG campaign finance
disclosure in 2026.
Part of
the book in italics delves
into the UN Correspondents
Association and its efforts to
throw Lee out. They appear
again in the afterword /
novella, "Whacking Qaddafi,"
which was first mentioned in
the New Yorker magazine's Talk of
the Town piece about
Lee. It addresses more
countries: from India to
Pakistan, Guinea to Guinea
Bissau.
The main
text addresses UN failures in
Sri Lanka - including the UNCA
connection - Cameroon, Western
Sahara, Syria, North Korea,
Sudan, Gaza and elsewhere. UN
Betrayals indeed - this should
be the first of a series.
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