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Corrupt UN of Guterres UNESCO Wants to
Keep Azoulay On
By Matthew
Russell Lee &
sources,
Exclusive
UN
GATE, Jan 4
– UNESCO,
like the whole
UN system
under Antonio
Guterres was
been
falling apart
in corruption
and fraud.
Inner
City Press has reported
on serious
malfeasance by
the French
Audrey Azoulay
administration
at UNESCO in
Paris, almost
as bad as
Antonio
Guterres'
ongoing
corruption in
and of the UN
in New York. A
fish rots from
the head.
Audrey
Azoulay left
office in
November and,
despite rumors
that she might
be in line for
a ministerial
post, or even
as prime
minister, as
several paid
publications
in the French
press have
written, she
now heads a little
known French
foundation
launched by
her mentor and
former boss
François
Hollande.
Sort of
like Guterres
and
Gulbenkian? See
Inner City
Press' new
book for the
2026 "Next SG" process,
"UN Betrayed,"
here.
Similarly
to Guterres
at the UN,
Azoulay proved
at UNESCO that
she was a poor
manager, a
weak diplomat,
and a person
without
values.
However,
it seems that
we will have
to continue to
write about
Azoulay, as
according to
our sources,
the new
Director-General
of UNESCO,
Egypt's
El-Enany, has
announced to
member states
his intention
to create an
advisory body
composed of
the three
former
Directors-General
of UNESCO,
Japan's
Matsuura (88),
Bulgaria's
Bokova (73),
and Azoulay
(53). It is
quite obvious
that this
advisory body
is designed to
keep Azoulay
in the place
in one way or
another.
Several
versions
justify this
strange
decision, but
the most
plausible is
that the
Egyptian DG
does not want
any potential
confrontation
with the host
country. It is a
bad start.
This
applies to his
decision to
keep the
Azoulay's
Director of
Cabinet
Margaux
Bergeon-Dars
in her
position. We
already wrote
about her (here
and here
)
Keeping her on
is obviously
based on the
same logic as
playing the
complacency
card with the
French. She
sits on the
fundraising
committee of
the Paris
Institute of
Political
Studies, an
appointment
agreed to by
Azoulay but
which is
contrary to
all the rules
and totally
incompatible
with her
position at
UNESCO.
Feeling that
her power,
veted by
Azoulay, is
waning,
Margaux
Bergeon-Dars
is panicking
at the idea of
being
gradually
marginalized
and
eliminated.
This is why
she is
currently
trying to
place her own
collaborators
within the
Cabinet
UNESCO
stands today
weakened and
insignificant,
ravaged by
financial
misappropriations,
propitious to
the
flourishing of
abuse of
power,
corruption and
nepotism.
Watch this
site.
This is
where UNESCO
stands today.
We will have
more on that.
Watch this
site.
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