| UN Staff
Urge SG Guterres to Resign
& Fire USGs Amid His
Failures on Ukraine and
Gaza
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
May 6 – How corrupt and
decrepit has the UN system
become under Antonio Guterres,
in this case due to Guterres?
Inner City Press, which
Guterres has banned from "his"
UN, was sent a copy of this
staff letter to the "SG
Calling On Him To Resign" -
Now this: "Mr.
Secretary-General, We
are a group of staff members,
many of whom at risk of
contract termination. We read
your recent message to the
staff on the launch of the
UN80 initiative and wish to
respond to your call for staff
to provide ideas for your new
reform endeavor. In an earlier
open letter, we asked you to
simply resign, for the good of
the UN.
It is high time
for your to step down. This is
the best reform you could
undertake. In your message to
staff you recklessly put the
blame for the current
financial crisis of the UN on
everything and everybody, but
yourself. It is therefore
clear to us that your new
reform is simply aimed at
further strengthening your
grip on the UN, so that you
can further promote your
ideologies and views as well
as further purge staff who are
not aligned with these
policies and further promote
your loyal supporters in the
UN. In view of your clear
unwillingness to relinquish
your position, we wish to
propose some measures that
could contribute to a sound
reform process in the
framework of your UN80
initiative.
Here are your
proposals: 1) Dismiss
the Deputy Secretary-General,
who, despite the ongoing
financial crisis, continues to
spend hundreds of
thousands of dollars on
initiatives like the recent UN
Women Leaders’ retreat
2) Dismiss the
Under-Secretary-General (USG)
heading the Department of
Management, whom you have
tasked with leading the UN80
initiative. This is the same
person who has promoted active
discriminatory policies in the
selection of UN staff
3) Dismiss the
USG of the Department of
Global Communication, who has
been publicly disseminating
propaganda.
4) Dismiss the
High Commissioner for Human
Rights
5) Dismiss the
USG in charge of UN Women
6) Disclose and
resume the investigations
conducted on various senior UN
officials allegedly engaged in
corruption and harassement
cases, including prominent
USGs in Geneva, Vienna and
other duty stations. We
hope you will appreciate our
contributions to your reform
efforts. Implementing our
proposals will generate new
resources and credibility, so
that the organisation will
again deserve the support of
all Member States and its
staff can finally work in a
non-ideological and
financially stable environment
Guterres had the
critical Press roughed
up and thrown out. There
has been no due process since,
not even a response to Guterres'
Melissa Fleming to a pro bono inquiry
for Inner City Press from the
law firm Quinn Emanuel. We'll
have more on this.
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