For
UNFPA Top Job Another
Name, Barcena, Guterres
"Meddles," Spox Says
His Decision
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive series
UNITED NATIONS,
September 26 – The UN system is
still moving to find a successor
at the UN Population Fund for
Babatunde Osotimehin, who died
suddenly earlier this year.
Inner City Press was exclusively
informed by sources that the
finalists initially ranged from
Costa Rica and Panama to Senegal
and a Belgian in Kenya. Then
that Secretary General Antonio
Guterres came in with another
candiate, Kate Gilmore (who
spoke September 26 in the Human
Rights Council) and now yet
another: Alicia Barcena.
Barcena, previously the head of
the Department of Management,
has gone well over Ban Ki-moon's
five year rule at ECLAC. Could
UNFPA be the next stop? UN
Spokesman Stephane Dujarric,
when Inner City Press asked him
at the September 12 noon
briefing, was unwilling to
confirm any of this, except that
it is ultimately the decision of
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres - who also on September
12 gave a new UN job to the
President of the General
Assembly who was supposed to be
overseeing him, click here.
Inner City Press has been
informed of two more candidates,
Kate Gilmore and Jose Miguel
Guzman of the Dominican
Republic; the sources say that
while Deputy Secretary General
Amina J. Mohammed was running
the process, now Secretary
General Antonio Guterres has
"gotten involved... Interviews
are September 12 (via video
feed), but process is very
opaque with missions being told
people are in, out, in
again....Amina is responsible
but Guterres meddling as well
and it seems pressure back and
forth between these two." We'll
have more on this; neither has
acted on the UN censorship they
inherited and their new head of
Global Communications Alison
Smale hasn't even
responded. Strange that the only
media reporting on this UNFPA /
38th floor dysfunction is the
media slated to be more
restricted during General
Assembly week than no-show state
media like Egypt's Akhbar al Yom
(as Egypt runs hard to run, what
else, UNESCO.) This is
UNacceptable and must be re. The
first four candidates Inner City
Press named in its September 9
exclusive: Costa Rica second
vice president Ana Helena Chacón
Echeverría, Acting Executive
Director Natalia Kanem, Belgian
in Kenya Marleen Timmerman, and
Senegal's Awa Marie Coll-Seck of
Roll Back Malaria is
short-listed. But when would the
winner actually begin? We'd
ask, but
Guterres'
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric
literally runs
out of the UN
Press Briefing
Room
mid-question,
video here.
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