UN Wastes Taxpayer Money As Guterres Snubs Staff and Still Bans Inner City Press

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 is today publishing another letter to it from UN staff:

Dear Mr Lee, Guterres’s UN is corrupt, irrelevant and incompetent. UN80 will end up with many of us fired while those responsible and their petty bureaucrats will stay. The reform of the UN cannot be led by those who brought the UN to irrelevance and bankruptcy. The UN secretariat has announced 20% cuts and many contracts have not not been extended. Yet, all the cuts are made at junior P2 and P3 level. Why are the over 60 year-old P5s, D1s, D2s, ASGs and USG not taking retirement and leave space to young staff that can regenerate an old, obsolete, patriarchal and elitist organization?

They should lead by example, take their pensions and leave. Instead, they stay taking fat salaries and preaching about the value of youth, while the UN bureaucrats age in luxury in New York and Geneva and young staff get fired. That’s UN hypocrisy. What about duplication and triplicacion and mandates and cost?

If UNICEF is the dedicated agency for children what are the added value of Virginia Gamba and Najat Maalla other than wasting funds? Same applies to UNWomen and Priscilla Pattern.  How many administrative services does the UN need?

How efficient is to have multiple administrative services in costly New York and Geneva? Guterres, Amina Mohamed, Guy Ryder, Atul  Khare, Melissa Fleming, Rosemary di Carlo, Catherine Pollard, Marta Helena Lopez, Najat Maalla, Volker Turk, Nada Al Nashif, Ghana Walt, Jean Pierre Lacroix, Fatou Ndyiaye, Miguel Ángel Moratinos and all the other cronies should resign if they had any decency left before they destroy the UN. Those who brought the UN to bankruptcy should not lead its recovery. Member states cannot remain silent. Staff says no to management incompetence!

Inner City Press applied to re-enteron June 19, here.

What will incoming PGA Annalena Baerbock do, including on Press freedom? Watch this site.

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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