| As UNSG Guterres
Bans Press His Bid to Tap
Grynspan Successor Trashed by
UNCTAD Staff
by
Matthew Russell Lee
UN GATE,
Oct 8 – After eight years of
failure as UNSG, Antonio
Guterres is trying to pick his
successor. First, this from
over the transom: "Rebeca
Grynspan took the helm of the
UN Conference on Trade and
Development (UNCTAD) in 2021
imbued with unbridled
ambition. She
immediately embarked on a
campaign to use the position
as a steppingstone to the UN
Secretary-General job in 2026
and started positioning her
close allies to set up the
necessary machinery for that."
Now on October 8,
this: "Since assuming office
in 2021, Grynspan has wasted
no time in leveraging her
position as a platform for her
own political aspirations. The
organization’s 60th
anniversary event in June,
which should have been an
opportunity to renew its
commitment to advancing the
interests of the developing
world, was instead used as a
launchpad for her campaign for
the UN’s top job.
In 2022, UN chief Antonio
Guterres assigned Grynspan to
coordinate a task force
working on the global response
to the impacts of the war in
Ukraine, and she quickly
turned it into the vehicle for
her UN campaign, pushing
UNCTAD’s work to the back
burner. Instead, she spends
her time scratching the backs
of developed countries in
hopes that they will return
the favour when the time comes
for her bid for the UN
Secretary-General position."
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