| UNSG Cuts
Corners for Cronies Graca
Griffin and Gyles Now
Banned Inner City Press
Applies
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
June 19 – How corrupt
and decrepit has the UN system
become under Antonio Guterres,
in this case due to Guterres?
Inner City Press
on June 2 published a memo
leaked to it, even while
Guterres bans it from entering
the UN, about 20% cuts but
with exceptions, here.
On June 19, after
no answers by UN, Inner City
Press applied to re-enter to
ask, here.
Now this:
Dear Matthew
Russell Lee:
I'm contacting
you concerning what's
happening in the UN right now
because I cannot stand it any
longer. As you
know, the Secretary General
Guterres is imposing 20%
abolishment of the posts
without a clear guidance, and
all staff members from the
system are suffering from
anxiety and worries from
this. However, the
Secretary General is promoting
and forcefully giving the
posts to his entourages on the
38th floor without reason nor
publication. You can
find numerous cases if you
simply talk to many inside,
and here are a few cases.
Recently,
he promoted Mr. Miguel Graca,
his personal assistant from
Portugal from D1 to D2 and now
he is promoted "without proper
process or announcement" to
the ASG. His work or position
was not changed at all, and he
is still using his title as
"Director of the office of the
Secretary General" even though
he is ASG. All of his
predecessors who worked way
much more effectively and
harder stayed as D1 forever.
He also promoted his special
assistant Mr. Aguinaldo
Baptista from P3 to P4 and to
P5 and now to D1.
The SG
also appointed his long-time
entourage from his transition
team, Ms. Michelle
Gyles-McDonnough as the
Executive Director of the
UNITAR, the ASG level with no
clear process. And he
also appointed Ms. Michele
Griffin to the Director of the
Electoral Assistance Division
in DPPA, bypassing all the
proper procedures. She didn't
have any prior experience nor
knowledge in election matters
at all. She is definitely
unqualified for such an
important position.
Having 1
year left with his tenure, he
is sending down many names who
had been working in the EOSG
to the Department and Agencies
and told them to find posts
for them. I have
worked for the UN for the past
30 years and this has never
happened before and NO
Secretary General or whoever
has authority to do so.
You can just talk to anybody
in the Secretariat and
everybody knows it.
[For now,
Inner City Press cannot enter
and ask about this]
Please
investigate this and let
everybody know of the
injustice and wrongful act.
[Will do]
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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