| UNSG Cut
Corners for Cronies Graca
Griffin Baptista Gyles Now
Inner City Press Asks
Graca
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
June 24 – 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.
Later that day, June 19,
Inner City Press exclusively reported:
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.
[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]
Inner City Press asked UN
Spokespeople including
Stephane Dujarric about this,
no answer at all. The
story was
tweeted out
before 8 am on
June 20.
Five days
later inside the UN the loyal
opposition Pass Blue - silent
on Guterres' roughing up of
and continues ban of Inner
City Press, which Inner City
Press linked
to Graca as far back as August
2, 2018 - suddenly and
belatedly has
the Graca story, with no
credit, and no mention of
Inner City Press' June 19
report on the other three.
Those with access
could have asked this at the
UN noon briefing, not only on
June 20 after Inner City Press
published it but also on June
23 (when Inner City Press,
even while live tweeting the
US v. Sean Combs trial,
covered the UN briefing from
outside, here).
Now before the
June 24 briefing, banned Inner
City Press has asked UN Spox
and Graca, "now that Graca has
said comments are forthcoming,
we have previously asked this:
What are SG Guterres'
responses to this, to Inner
City Press from
whistleblowers, on deadline:
"Guterres promoted Mr. Miguel
Graca, his personal assistant
from Portugal from D1 to D2
and now he is promoted
"without proper process or
announcement" to ASG. He
also promoted his special
assistant Mr. Aguinaldo
Baptista from P3 to P4 and to
P5 and now to D1 and 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" - response? Now that
Graca has said "I am in touch
with the office of the
spokesperson, who will send
you comments" - send the
comments or say why not, on
deadline." Watch this site.
Baptista next.
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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