UN GATE, Oct 8 – After eight years of failure as UNSG, Antonio Guterres is trying to pick his successor. First, this from over the transom: "Rebeca Grynspan took the helm of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 2021 imbued with unbridled ambition. She immediately embarked on a campaign to use the position as a steppingstone to the UN Secretary-General job in 2026 and started positioning her close allies to set up the necessary machinery for that."
Now on October 8, this: "Since assuming office in 2021, Grynspan has wasted no time in leveraging her position as a platform for her own political aspirations. The organization’s 60th anniversary event in June, which should have been an opportunity to renew its commitment to advancing the interests of the developing world, was instead used as a launchpad for her campaign for the UN’s top job. In 2022, UN chief Antonio Guterres assigned Grynspan to coordinate a task force working on the global response to the impacts of the war in Ukraine, and she quickly turned it into the vehicle for her UN campaign, pushing UNCTAD’s work to the back burner. Instead, she spends her time scratching the backs of developed countries in hopes that they will return the favour when the time comes for her bid for the UN Secretary-General position." Part 1 of x
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