Inner City Press: UNESCO falling apart in corruption & fraud

UNESCO, like the whole UN system under Antonio Guterres is falling apart in corruption and fraud, Report informs.

In recent years, Inner City Press has revealed the alarming situation of the Paris-based UN agency, headed by Frenchwoman Audrey Azoulay since 2017.

“Since the beginning of her mandate, following a totally unexpected election, the French director general and her team have treated the organization as if it were her private store or her family property,” reads the report.

“Today it is easy to predict that Director General Azoulay will end her mandate badly after having mismanaged it.”

The legitimate demands of the staff unions and some honorable member states to remedy this state of affairs did not meet with the usual opposition of Azoulay’s lackeys.

“The exposure and the revelations of Inner City Press finally resulted in open and official criticism expressed by a number of member states at the last 215th session of the Executive Board, held October 5-19, 2022.

The following is a transcript of the memorable speech of Turkish Ambassador Gulnur Aybet delivered at the opening session of the Executive Board last month.

She requested Audrey Azoulay to “improve the communication between the director general and the permanent delegations” and emphasized the “importance of speed and timing” since the director general office is very slow and not responding and that this is becoming the “emerging norm” and that ambassadors find it “extremely difficult to schedule an appointment directly with the director general herself”.

The Ambassador also said that the problems of “timing and level of response” of director general cabinet are “appearing across” the board and this obstruction seems to be “systematic and structural.”