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Corrupt UN of Guterres UNESCO Election of
Executive Body Chair Brazilian Gambit
Fails
By Matthew
Russell Lee &
sources,
Exclusive
UN
GATE, Nov 24
– UNESCO,
like the whole
UN system
under Antonio
Guterres is
falling apart
in corruption
and fraud.
Inner
City Press has
been reporting
on serious
malfeasance by
the French
Audrey Azoulay
administration
at UNESCO in
Paris, almost
as bad as
Antonio
Guterres'
corruption in
and of the UN
in New York. A
fish rots from
the head.
Last
week, Inner
City Press
wrote about
the political
scheming
orchestrated
by the DG of
UNESCO
Frenchwoman
Audrey Azoulay
for
influencing
the elections
of member
states to the
Executive
Board (here)
At
UNESCO, the
governing
bodies are
under French
influence for
years now,
instead of
governing or
administering
independently.
In recent
days, this
situation has
worsened even
more and DG
Azoulay is
scot-free for
her
dictatorial
power over
democratic
processes,
including the
General
Conference's
election of
Executive
Board members,
which she has
no right to
do. Her
intervention
in these
elections,
without fear
of sanctions,
is striking.
Today, the
level of
intervention
has reached a
new dimension.
To put
things into
perspective, a
little history
is in order.
Earlier this
year, DG
Azoulay
launched the
Haitian
ambassador
into the
political
arena as her
personal
candidate for
the presidency
of the
Executive
Board. The
young,
inexperienced
ambassador
from a country
without a
government
received no
support other
than from
Congo
Brazzaville
and Djibouti,
and despite
all her
promises to
run to the
bitter end,
she withdrew
her candidacy
just in time
to win a
little
sympathy in
place of
unambivalent
scorn for her
poor
professional
and academic
background,
young age and
overweening
ambition.
Then, in order
to ensure that
the presidency
of the
Executive
Board would be
assumed by a
docile
puppet, the
Argentine
ambassador was
asked by
Azoulay to
present her
candidacy for
the last two
years of
Azoulay's
mandate.
This
plan also
poorly failed.
As in the case
of Haiti, the
Argentine
ambassador
vowed to stay
in the race
until the end,
but in fact
the end came
two days
before the
election, just
after DG
Azoulay
rightly
realized that
Argentina was
going to lose
this political
contest.
That's why
today she put
pressure on
Brazil to
nominate the
Brazilian
Ambassador to
UNESCO for the
top job.
This
is a first in
the Paris
Agency's
history. A
last-minute
candidate for
such a
position is
unheard of.
And Brazil
accepted only
to please the
French and DG
Azoulay,
knowing that
it will most
likely lose
the position.
For Brazil, a
single day in
the race is
clearly a
disadvantage.
It
doesn't have
time to
campaign or
consult
capitals,
simply hoping
that Japan,
France and
other puppet
countries will
put pressure
on the elected
member states
of the
Executive
Board,
to shift their
votes to
Brazil.
On Friday
November 24,
we'll find out
whether Saint
Lucia, having
won without a
fight first
against Haiti
and then
against
Argentina,
will
democratically
prevail over
Brazil - the
last-chance
candidate of
DG Azoulay.
As a
high-ranking
diplomat in
Paris pointed
out: "After
today's latest
developments,
Saint Lucia's
candidate is
in fact
unambiguously
gaining
additional
support
because light
has been shed
on the French
delegation's
usually
secretive
political
maneuvering in
favor of
Azoulay's
chosen
candidate".
In fact, DG
Azoulay
herself has
been making
calls to
various
capitals in
recent days in
a desperate
effort to
boost her
Argentine
puppy's
chances in the
election.
As a
member of her
Cabinet made
clear, Azoulay
persists in
the mistaken
belief that
she has a veto
over the
elections of
sovereign
member states.
This is in
fact a matter
of grave
concern, as
Ms. Azoulay's
failure to
respect
existing rules
and practices
jeopardizes
the Agency's
ethics and
undermines
member states'
confidence in
the
credibility of
a fair and
democratic
electoral
process under
Audrey
Azoulay's
mandate.
It
was obvious
that the
French
Government,
represented by
the French
Ambassador to
UNESCO,
Philippe
Franc, will do
everything
possible to
protect and
please the
French DG so
that she can
get away with
murdering the
Agency despite
France's
disastrous
image as a
host
country.
On Wednesday,
Ambassador
Franc was at
pains to
mobilize all
the countries
in favor of
Brazil's
election,
after doing so
for Argentina,
and kept
repeating that
he had been
appointed "to
protect"
Audrey
Azoulay.
The
question is,
why does she
need such
political
protection,
and what does
he need to
protect her
from so
assiduously?
What offenses
should remain
hidden? As end
of mandates
are always
quite painful
for all of her
predecessors,
we will
certainly soon
have all these
aspects
related to the
“protection”
of Azoulay by
the French
duly revealed.
Update:
Brazil lost
with only 20
votes. St
Lucia won as
the new
president of
the executive
board with 36
votes;
2 abstentions. Watch
this site.
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