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Corrupt UN Of Guterres UNESCO Pathetic
Roadshow of DG Azoulay Failing in Morocco
By Matthew
Russell Lee &
sources,
Exclusive
UN
GATE, April 2
– 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:
Second
terms are always difficult and DG Azoulay is
about to find out the hard way. The biggest
blow came this month during her official visit
to Morocco, when King Mohammed VI refused to
meet with her despite all the pressure and
efforts of her cabinet and her father, the
King's senior advisor for economic affairs
André Azoulay.
What is the point of having a father in the
palace if he can't even get a meeting for his
baby-daughter, is an obviously disturbing
question for her. Then Audrey Azoulay
tried to meet with a princess who heads an
influential foundation in Rabat, but this
request was also rejected. All she got was a
tough tête-à-tête with Foreign Minister Bourita - we've
covered him on Western Sahara.
By dint of pounding the Moroccans in the
secretariat, she ended up getting a slap on
the wrist from the minister, who bluntly
expressed his displeasure with her recent
decisions regarding the Kingdom's affairs and
representatives at UNESCO, including the
appointment of a new director of the agency in
the Rabat office.
DG Azoulay's first and only choice for the
job, the Italian Paolini, was simply turned
down because she is suspected of fraud in her
previous position in Doha. The Moroccan
ambassador, Samir Addahre, was behind the
decision against Paolini, and Azoulay
explicitly asked that he not accompany her on
her official visit. Curiously, and against all
protocol rules, this request was granted by
the Moroccan authorities and Samir Addahre
spent a peaceful week in Paris instead of
doing the job he is paid to do in Rabat by
attending this official visit as all other
ambassadors do on such occasions.
The second major recent blow was the failed
attempt by Azoulay's office to influence the
elections for the presidency of the UNESCO
Staff Union. On Friday, staff members elected
Mary Mone to this important position.
Ms Mone is well known for her integrity and
relentless opposition to the misdeeds of the
Azoulay administration. Yet two Italians
pushed by Azoulay succeeded to infiltrate the
STU executive bureau, Davide Storti and
Giovanni Scepi, in order to defend the DG's
policies and work to minimize any potential
strong criticism of the administration by the
STU.
The third and most important setback for
Azoulay concerns her efforts to extend her
fellow Moroccan Latifa Taoufik in her current
position of president of the Appeals Board.
Next week, this will be one of the hottest
debates in the executive board of the
organization, as a Togolese candidate is
recommended by the executive board bureau
members to replace the Moroccan Taoufik, and
all indications are that DG Azoulay will
oppose this recommendation by any means
possible.
Finally, to everyone's surprise, Azoulay
extended the ADG for Africa, Firmin Matoko,
for another year, even though he is sick,
tired, unmotivated, in short, the perfect
embodiment of the ugly face of the Azoulay
administration. Internal sources point out
that this move is made in order to keep the
ADG post for Azoulay's good friend, the
Ethiopian ambassador Henok Teferra
Shawl.
Another surprising extension concerns
the retention of current cabinet director
Nicolas Kassianides despite the fact that
another Frenchman, appointed to the cabinet
last year, Roland Husson, now assumes most of
his duties. For years now, Inner City Press is
exposing the financial and administrative
transgressions perpetrated by Kassianides.
Fraud, abuse of power, even the promotion of
his mistress, the long list of wrongdoings
largely justifies his immediate sacking from
the organization. Still, Audrey Azoulay never
initiated any hostile move against him, even
when Kassianides clearly became a political
liability.
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.
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