SDNY COURTHOUSE, April 7 – Among the mere four
candidates as of this date nominated and running for
Secretary General of the United Nations, past the supposed
deadline, it was about Rebeca Grynspan that the
candidate's own staff complained to Inner City Press.
Grynspan while
at UNDP used a Leer jet, while the SRSG flew commercial:
Inner City Press
reported, after asking Stephane Dujarric and getting no
answer: "UNDP leased the UNAMA Mission's Lear Jet to fly
in Grynspan from Dubai, at a cost insiders tell Inner City
Press approached $40,000. Recently in
the UN budget committee the US has raised the issue of
interns flying business class. But what about UNDP
deploying a Lear Jet, when even the Special Representative
of the Secretary General, while living in "Palace Seven,"
flies commercial for $400 to $500?" From
Grynspan and her supporters, no response, no explanation.
Back in 2024
Inner City Press published
this:
"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, 2024 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 favor when the time comes for her bid for the UN Secretary-General position."
Well, the sleaze has begun. On March 17,
2026, more than three weeks ago, Grynspan
was asked 17
questions, about transparency, about
having ridden around in a jet while even
other UN official flew commercial (albeit
not in coach class). She and her sponsors,
including the Costa Rica mission and,
sadly, its Maritza Chan Valverde, have not
answered a single one of the questions.
But in a propaganda channel, with no
questions about the UN staff critique or
the waste, Grynspan bloviates that "Trust
is built through actions that renew and
strengthen institutions over time. For me,
credibility has always been built through
choices, not statements." Sounds just like
Guterres - with the selective answering
and, essentially, censorship. We'll have
more on this.
