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Corrupt UN Of Guterres UNESCO Wastes
$400000 in Public Funds Like SG Lisbon
Junkets
By Matthew
Russell Lee &
sources,
Exclusive
UN
GATE, March 7
– From
the corrupt UN
of Antonio
Guterres in
New York, the
whole UN
system has
been systematically
corrupted,
including
UNESCO.
Inner
City Press,
banned from
the UN by
Guterres, has
reported
exclusively on
the appalling
situation at
UNESCO. Now
this: recently,
another major
case was lost
by the corrupt
UNESCO. On
January 27,
the
Administrative
Tribunal of
the
International
Labour
Organization
once again
condemned
UNESCO and
ruled on its
decision to
summarily
dismiss a
staff member
without
cause.
By a letter
dated July 10,
2018, which
constituted
the contested
decision, the
staff member
was informed
that the
Director
General Audrey
Azoulay
confirmed the
sanction of
summary
dismissal for
serious
misconduct.
Judgement
number 4457 of
the Tribunal,
pronounced at
its 133rd
session, is
very
well-defined
in pinpointing
the errors of
the UNESCO
administration
in that hugely
annoying for
Azoulay case
(full text of
the judgement
– here.
The
"manifest
error of
appreciation"
of DG Audrey
Azoulay
stipulated in
this
judgement, has
a cost because
of its
financial
implications,
and this cost
to UNESCO's
regular budget
is some
US$400,000.
Couldn't this
money be spent
on educational
or cultural
purposes
instead of
being paid as
compensation
for the
unjustified
damage done to
the former
staff member's
career and
reputation by
spoiled UNESCO
senior
officials?
This is not
the first time
UNESCO has
misappropriated
public funds
due to poor
decision
making and
Inner City
Press has
written about
this on
several
occasions. Our
appalling
findings were
also confirmed
by the Report
by the
Director
General on the
judgments
concerning
UNESCO issued
by the
international
Labour
Organization
administrative
tribunal
(ILOAT)
Document
available here.
After
the disclosure
of about US$1
million lost
by UNESCO in
the Geneva
Tribunal, the
director of
human
resources,
Hong Kwon from
Korea, was
fired and
replaced by
Kazumi Ogawa
from Japan.
Clearly, no
progress has
been made
since then in
protecting
staff rights
and combating
abuse of power
by the
agency's
French
administration,
and UNESCO
will continue
to lose money
in Geneva.
In
addition,
tacit
financially
negotiated
arrangements
are piling up
to stop staff
contesting in
Geneva. Large
amounts of
extra money
were
distributed by
DG Azoulay
last year
instead of
being used for
educational
and cultural
projects. Just
last month,
two more
amicable
settlements
were approved
by her after
negotiation
with the
complaining
staff for
nearly
$200,000. And
the member
states remain
silent in all
these cases of
misappropriation
of taxpayers'
money.
However, the
loss of more
than
US$400,000 in
a single case
is an absolute
record. In the
last 25 years,
UNESCO has
never lost so
much money
from a single
Tribunal
ruling.
Then
again, there
has never been
a UN Secretary
General
as censorious
and
wasteful as
Guterres, with
his junkets
to Lisbon. A
fish rots
from the head.
In
the case of
the
above-mentioned
UNESCO
judgment
number 4457,
the managers
who made the
wrong decision
are clearly
identifiable:
the direct
supervisors of
the staff
member in the
administrative
sector -
Fernando
Menendez and
Khadija
Zammouri; in
HRM and Legal,
the team
dealing with
contested
cases, namely
Annick Grisar,
Alexandre
Duganis and
Santiago
Villalpando
and in the
Cabinet, the
Director
Nicolas
Kassianides
and his boss,
DG Audrey
Azoulay who
both validated
the bad
decisions
made. By
dividing this
amount by the
salaries of
these 8
people, it
would not be
problematic to
reimburse
UNESCO for the
full amount of
the judgment,
some $400,000
in damages,
instead of
allowing them
to get away
with
murder.
The
total failure
of the UN and
its
specialized
organizations
because of
leaders like
Audrey Azoulay
and Antonio
Guterres who
encourage
corruption,
embezzlement
and
mismanagement
definitely
contributes to
the crisis
that makes the
world
conflict-prone.
With such
leaders, the
United Nations
and its
agencies have
actually
become
detrimental to
peace and
security. It
is time to
phase them
out. Watch
this site.
This is
where UNESCO
is today, an
agency where
corruption,
embezzlement,
moral and
sexual
harassment,
abuse of power
and nepotism
thrive.
We'll have
more on this.
Watch this
site
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