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UNESCO Member States Criticize Azoulay As
They Should Impeach Guterres At UNHQ
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive
UN GATE, June 10
– Yesterday
evening
successfully
ended the
first-ever
virtual
meeting of the
UNESCO
Executive
Board. Despite
all diplomatic
efforts to
cancel it,
orchestrated
by France and
DG Azoulay’s
fervent usual
supporters -
Spain, Italy,
Germany,
Albania,
Tunisia,
Jordan,
Ethiopia,
Saudi Arabia
and UAE -
among others,
the 6th
extraordinary
session of the
Board still
took place.
The
oppositions by
those
countries did
not pay off
and by its
holding alone,
the Board
session
spoiled
considerably
the aura of
the French DG
and confirmed
that she is
merely a
finger-puppet
with no
control over
the political
processes at
the
Paris-based
agency.
This Board
session
organized on 8
and
9 June, proved
that
"governance"
is the
priority issue
for member
states as not
a single
debate was
devoted to
programs and
activities
over the last
two
days.
With
its holding,
the diplomatic
saga at UNESCO
is over for
now. It is
still a
Pyrrhic
victory for
the Chair of
the Executive
board, Agapito
Mba Mokuy, who
lost
considerable
political
capital and
even some of
his main
supporters in
the diplomatic
battle, and
who appeared
with major
difficulties
to understand
what chairing
a Board
session
actually
means.
The session
was further
challenged
with technical
disruption
organized
behind the
scene by the
former
Secretary of
the Governing
bodies, Sachin
Bhatt as a
revenge for
losing his
cushy position
due to the
dissatisfaction
of the Chair
of the Board
with his work.
As
pointed out by
a staff member
working in
central
services,
“Remaining
true to his
sleazy
reputation,
Bhatt kept
eavesdropping
on the Chair
and sabotaging
his work as
instructed by
the Cabinet
and by his
exclusive
dog-handler
Kacyanides.
After
delivering on
all dirty
assignments as
member of the
Cabinet, in
this GBS
position he
poorly
failed”.
At the end of
the day, the
French DG and
her
subordinate
home-country
Delegation to
UNESCO did not
succeed in
their plans to
prevent the
governing body
from
operating.
Success has
many fathers
but failure is
an orphan, as
the saying
goes, and
since the
success of the
Board was to a
great extent
based on to
the
co-facilitation
organized
prior to the
Board session
by Morocco and
Switzerland at
the request of
the Chair
Agapito Mba
Mokuy, the
French at
UNESCO and at
the Quai
d’Orsay got
really upset
with the two
ambassadors,
Samir Addahre
and Martin
Michelet.
For
the French,
both
ambassadors
appeared to be
collaborating
too
constructively
with the
“enemy” - the
Chair of the
Board -,
instead of
helping France
sinking him as
schemed since
the very
outset.
As a Cabinet
member said
this morning
to Inner City
Pres, “since
the political
pressure in
the respective
capitals Rabat
and Bern, did
not produce
the expected
results, the
French are now
considering
options so
that the two
ambassadors be
recalled and
replaced
before the
summer". And
then added: "I
can understand
the French
doing that
with Morocco,
a country they
have always
contemplated
as a French
protectorate
since 1912,
and,
evidently,
even after its
independence
in 1956.
But
Switzerland is
definitely a
different
ballgame, and
nobody
believes their
ambassador can
be recalled
only because
of his
integrity and
professionalism.”
France and DG
Azoulay will
keep fighting
back and
undermining
the authority
of member
states so as
to maintain
the current
status-quo
propitious to
mismanagement,
corruption and
abuse of
power. For DG
Azoulay,
ruling with no
oversight and
accountability
the UN agency
is a priceless
advantage in
campaigning
for her
reelection.
After more
than two years
of the French
administration
at UNESCO,
with a
leadership
which would be
laughable if
it were not
having so
serious
damaging
consequences,
UNESCO entered
the GUBU
(“grotesque,
unbelievable,
bizarre and
unprecedented”)
phase.
How
will it end?
Nobody knows - this
while Guterres
being outed
not only as a
censor but not
also as a
racist make
his
impeachment
imperative, if
the UN is to
retain any
credibility.
But at
UNESCO
certainly,
elections for
a real DG are
looming on the
2021
horizon.
This is UNESCO
today. This is
the UN of
Antonio
Guterres. We
will have more
on that. Watch
this site.
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