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Corrupt UN of Guterres UNESCO’s Azoulay
Now On SciencesPo Board Despite UN Job
By Matthew
Russell Lee &
sources,
Exclusive
UN GATE, May 6 – For
few months
now, a child
incest scandal
shakes the
Paris cozy
intelligentsia.
The famous
political
analyst
Olivier
Duhamel
resigned from
SciencesPo
after the
publishing of
his
stepdaughter’s
book in which
she revealed
that her twin
brother had
been sexually
abused by
their
well-known
stepfather
when they were
14. Mr
Duhamel has
consequently
resigned with
immediate
effect as
president of
the National
Foundation of
Political
Science
(NFPS), the
body that
oversees the
running of
SciencesPo
university.
And guess who
is among those
designated to
replace him
and other
members of the
Foundation’s
Board of
Directors
involved in
this major
political
scandal? Of
course, and
right in the
middle - the
French Audrey
Azoulay,
Director
general of
UNESCO.
After three
months of an
interminable
soap opera to
renew the
members of the
National
Foundation of
Political
Science, the
interim
president,
Louis
Schweitzer,
announced the
names of the
five new
members who
will join its
Board of
Directors:
Audrey
Azoulay, Ramon
Fernandez,
Alexandre
Bompard,
François
Delattre and
Philippe
Martin. With
the exception
of Azoulay,
they are all
well known in
the high
spheres of
government and
business.
The five
personalities
in question
are destined
to join the
famous college
of "founders",
which has 10
members out of
the 25 on the
NFPS Board.
The "founders"
are co-opted
for a ten-year
term,
renewable
once, and the
president of
the NFPS is
always chosen
from among
them. Maybe
Azoulay is the
next
one?
Diplomates are
flabbergasted
by this latest
move by A.
Azoulay when
at the same
time she is
still running
for reelection
in November
next. She may
be securing a
job knowing
before others
that the
current one
may not last.
What is
crystal-clear
though, is
that Audrey
Azoulay is not
entitled to
have an
additional job
while
occupying the
position of DG
of UNESCO,
unless the
move had been
approved in
advance by
Antonio
Guterres with
the tacit
collusion of
UNESCO’s
member
states.
Even so, the
contract
signed by
Azoulay with
UNESCO is
stipulating
under item 5
that “the
Director-General
shall not hold
any other
administrative
post” (page 4
of document
210 EX/24 here
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000374526/PDF/374526eng.pdf.multi)
According to
the
information
received from
SciencesPo,
this was
indeed a
whitewashing
position on
the Board of
Directors
earmarked for
the Director
general
Azoulay. In
the context of
the current
major crisis,
by appointing
Audrey
Azoulay, the
key NFPS
authorities
seem to aim at
bringing a
‘UNESCO’ image
to clean up
the soiled
reputation of
SciencesPo.
Bad
pick! It
is projected
for A. Azoualy
to be a member
of the Board’s
Remuneration
Commission as
well. As a
result, A.
Azoulay will
find herself
in the middle
of a conflict
of interests,
since the
Remuneration
Commission
regularly
awards itself
bonuses and
remuneration
of several
hundred
thousand
euros, and
Azoulay has no
right to
receive
emoluments
others than
her UNESCO
salary.
Therefore,
serving on a
Board of
Directors is
an
administrative
position and
the choice
made by DG
Azoulay not to
respect her
contract’s
condition is a
clear
violation of
the rules and
regulations of
UNESCO.
It is worth
recalling in
this respect
the Statute
Relating to
the
Director-General
of UNESCO in
its respective
articles:
“Article 1:
The
Director-General
is the Chief
Administrative
Officer of the
Organization.
In the
discharge of
his duties he
shall observe
the provisions
of
the
Constitution
and
any
rules
made
by
the
General
Conference and
by the
Executive
Board, and
shall give
effect to the
decisions of
these two
organs. In the
context of
Article VI of
the
Constitution,
the
Director-General
is accountable
to the General
Conference and
the Executive
Board;
Article 2: If
the
Director-General
dies or
resigns, the
Executive
Board shall
appoint an
Acting
Director-General
to serve until
the following
session of the
General
Conference;
and especially
Article 4: The
Executive
Board by a
vote of two
thirds of its
members may
suspend the
Director-General
on grounds of
misconduct, or
of violation
of the
Constitution
or Rules of
the General
Conference or
of the
Executive
Board”.
Unmistakably,
the necessary
legal
provisions for
disciplinary
sanctions are
on the table
waiting to be
applied by
member
states.
To sum it up,
following the
publication of
a wrenching
memoir by
Camille
Kouchner that
ended three
decades of
secrecy and
has shaken the
close-knit
community of
Paris
intellectuals
with an abuse
scandal, this
time involving
the crime of
incest,
against any
international
civil servant
rules and
logic, DG
Audrey Azoulay
got appointed
as a member of
the French
National
Foundation of
Political
Science Board
of
Directors.
What is the
added value
for UNESCO and
for its
reputation to
get associated
with the
current
disastrous
image of
SciencesPo?
Why would
governing
bodies of
UNESCO let its
Director
general to get
another job in
parallel of
her UNESCO
assignment?
For how long
will the UNSG
Guterres keep
turning a
blind eye to
the abusive
and unlawful
practices in
the Paris
based UN
Agency? Quite
inevitably he
will have to
deal with the
five features
depicting best
the DG Azoulay
Administration:
incompetence,
corruption,
disorganization,
lack of
long-term
vision and
improvisation.
The UN
definition of
‘abuse of
power’ or
‘abuse of
authority’ is
the commission
of an unlawful
act, done in
an official
capacity,
which affects
the
performance of
official
duties. This
is precisely
the act
committed by
DG Azoulay
with her usual
disregard for
rules and
regulations. But a
fish rots from
the head: Big
Tony. Watch
this site.
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