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### Viewing cable 06PARIS6435, U) USUNESCO ? ALARMING NEW INFORMATION ABOUT

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06PARIS6435 | 2006-09-26 14:56 | 2011-07-11 00:00 | CONFIDENTIAL | Embassy Paris

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    Lucia A Keegan  09/27/2006 09:41:07 AM  From  DB/Inbox:  Lucia A Keegan

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L        PARIS 06435

    SIPDIS
    cxparis:
        ACTION: UNESCO
        INFO:   POL ECON AMBU AMB AMBO DCM SCI

    DISSEMINATION: UNESCOX
    CHARGE: PROG

    APPROVED: AMB:LOLIVER
    DRAFTED: LEG:TMPEAY
    CLEARED: DCM:AKOSS

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    INFO RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRASILIA 1677
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    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 03 PARIS 006435

    SIPDIS

    FROM USMISSION UNESCO PARIS

    DEPARTMENT FOR IO/UNESCO, IO/FO, WHA/BSC, L/UNA

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/21/2016
    TAGS: UNESCO SCUL BR
    SUBJECT:  (U) USUNESCO ? ALARMING NEW INFORMATION ABOUT
    UNESCO?S BRASILIA FIELD OFFICE

    REF: PARIS 6225 (notal)

    Classified by DCM Andrew Koss, reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).

    ¶1. (U) This is an action request, please see para. 12.

    ¶2. (C) SUMMARY.  In a private, off-the-record meeting with
    John Parsons (please protect), the Director of UNESCO?s
    Internal Oversight Service (IOS), Mission learned this week
    of a variety of disturbing new allegations, as well as
    unsettling new facts, that appear not only to widen the
    scope of irregularities surrounding UNESCO?s Brasilia Field
    Office (UBO) but also to heighten the stakes for UNESCO?s
    Director-General, Executive Board Members, and UNESCO?s
    reputation in how this problem is being addressed.  We were
    informed that the disturbing new information raises a
    number of concerns, among them the following:  the
    possibility that UNESCO could become a respondent in a
    Brazilian criminal prosecution; the specter of fraud or
    money laundering resulting from tens of thousands of
    alleged UBO travel missions that have been processed
    through the field office?s travel agency; Brazilian
    government pressure to blackball IOS Director Parsons and
    force his resignation; and a deepening appearance of a
    conflict of interest by UNESCO?s Deputy Director-General
    (DDG), Marcio Barbosa (a Brazilian national) vis--vis his
    oversight of the UBO issues.

    ¶3.  (C) SUMMARY (continued).  As an Executive Board member,
    the U.S. faces tough choices about how to respond
    appropriately and responsibly to the UBO controversy within
    the broader context of U.S.-Brazil bilateral relations.

    ¶4.  (C) BACKGROUND.  Among key issues for the upcoming
    session of UNESCO?s Executive Board (EB), is item 24
    entitled ?Report by the Director-General on the Re-
    Orientation of the UNESCO Office in Brasilia.?  An August
    2006 UNESCO external auditor?s report suggests that a
    number of issues remain unresolved.  Reftel reported
    Brazil?s Permanent Delegate?s recent meeting with
    Ambassador Oliver to discuss the UBO.  The message
    delivered was that the Brazilian government views that the
    irregularities attributed to the UBO have now been
    sufficiently investigated, reported upon and brought under
    control.  Brazil therefore seeks to remove this issue
    henceforth from further EB monitoring as a future EB agenda
    item.  As reported, this demarche backfired, only
    strengthening Mission?s resolve to get an objective
    assessment of the current situation regarding that field
    office.  Mission Legal Adviser?s subsequent telephone
    conversation with the external auditor?s office affirmed
    that there remain unanswered questions of potential
    concern.

    ¶5.  (C) CIVIL AND POTENTIAL CRIMINAL LIABILITY.  We learned
    that in addition to a pending civil lawsuit relating to
    alleged malfeasance at UBO in which UNESCO is a respondent
    that has asserted immunity from Brazilian legal
    jurisdiction, prosecutors for the Federal District of
    Brasilia have informed Parsons that they are contemplating
    naming UNESCO as a respondent in a directly related
    criminal prosecution.  (Comment:  This same information was
    conveyed privately to the Mission?s Legal Adviser by the
    Deputy External Auditor during a recent phone
    conversation.)  It is not yet clear how such an indictment
    would be framed, but its issuance would constitute a major
    embarrassment for UNESCO.  Equally worrisome in this regard
    is Parsons? claim that a Brazilian court recently ruled
    that another UN organ, the UN Development Program (UNDP),
    was not entitled to immunity from legal jurisdiction by
    virtue of its international status.  Parsons asserted that
    the lawsuit against UNDP stems from that organization?s
    alleged failure to pay social security contributions for
    200 Brazilian employees.  Parsons informed us that UNESCO
    faces similar lawsuits (see para. 10) and could itself face
    non-recognition of its immunity as an international
    organization.  (Comment:  This recent Brazilian court
    decision is directly at odds with the assurances provided
    to the Mission?s DCM recently by UNESCO?s legal adviser
    that he is confident UNESCO?s immunity would be respected
    by Brazil?s courts.)

    ¶6. (C) TRAVEL SERVICE IRREGULARITIES. Parsons reported that
    in a period of less than a year, UBO paid some $60 million
    for travel services, allegedly involving 30,000 (thirty
    thousand) travel missions for its employees.  We further
    learned that of these paid travel missions, there has been
    an average of one thousand cancellations per month.
    Parsons raised the rhetorical question whether the
    suspiciously high number of travel missions and
    cancellations had become a form of ?money laundering.?
    This observation resonates with the UNESCO external
    auditor?s most recent report noting critically that the
    agency selected by UBO to handle such travel services was
    chosen without competitive bidding and moreover that since
    2001 UBO has defied the auditor?s repeated recommendation
    that this travel service contract be opened for competitive
    bidding.

    ¶7. (C) GOB EFFORT TO BLACKBALL IOS AND THWART
    INVESTIGATION.  We learned from Parsons that the GoB has
    launched a full-scale campaign to smear Parsons? name and
    reputation to such a degree that he is actively seeking to
    leave his post by year?s end.  Three members of his staff
    have informed him of their imminent departure as well,
    resulting from their refusal to be targets of a Brazilian
    vendetta for having competently conducted a needed
    investigation into palpable irregularities.  By year?s end,
    the IOS office could be completely decimated.  Parsons
    asked whether we could help to arrange for an American to
    replace him (he is a UK national).  He proposed that he
    change positions with the American who currently heads
    OSCE?s oversight office in Vienna.  (Comment:  Parsons, who
    did an excursion tour at the GAO, is a good friend of the
    U.S. and it would be in our interest to help him find
    onward employment.)

    ¶8.  (C) AMERICAN SELECTED TO HEAD UBO REJECTED BY BRAZIL.
    Due to the irregularities that have come to light at UBO,
    the former UBO director (an Argentine national) was forced
    to resign and was to have been replaced by a USAID
    employee, Richard Goughnour, who was selected by UNESCO DG
    Matsuura.  Parsons told us that the Brazilian government
    has taken the highly unusual step of denying him agrement.
    It is not clear whether the DG is seeking a reversal of
    Brasilia?s opposition, but for the moment the post is still
    vacant.  In the meantime, Parsons said, the UBO is being
    run by a temporary director who is not up to the management
    tasks of restructuring UBO?s operations.

    ¶9. (C) CONTINGENT LIABILITIES.  In addition to the lawsuit
    against UNESCO seeking breach of contract damages arising
    from the UBO, there are other contingent liabilities
    relating to lawsuits brought by some 45 contractors who
    allege that UBO has not made required social security
    contributions.

    ¶10. (C) APPARENT CONFLICT OF INTERST FOR THE DEPUTY
    DIRECTOR-GENERAL.  Parsons reported that DDG Barbosa has so
    far failed to recuse himself from making senior level
    decisions regarding the UBO, and, worse, has in fact
    approved retroactively irregularities cited by the auditors
    and even visited a previously unauthorized satellite office
    of the UBO.  Parsons also told us that Barbosa unilaterally
    lowered the overhead charges on extra budgetary funds
    received by the Sao Paolo office from five to three
    percent, thereby causing a loss of over $600,000 to UNESCO.

    ¶11. (C) COMMENT.  The combined effect of these various
    strands of actual and/or apparent irregularities has cast
    an even darker cloud over the Brasilia field office.  This
    cloud, if anything, would seem to compel more urgent and
    closer Executive Board ?due diligence? scrutiny and
    continued monitoring in the interest of Member States?
    oversight responsibilities and UNESCO?s reputation.  It
    seems increasingly clear that there remain a number of
    serious matters that need to be fixed at that office,
    despite the Brazilian government?s objections and its
    preference that they be minimized.  At the same time, on
    other important UNESCO issues (such as the education sector
    reform initiative being implemented by the ADG for
    Education, an American), we need Brazil?s support in order
    to achieve important USG goals for UNESCO.  We also need to
    walk a fine line with Barbosa, who has been a great help to
    the U.S. during the on-going review of the UNESCO science
    sector.  In addition, the effect of a hard-ball approach on
    the Brasilia office could affect our bilateral relations
    with Brazil.  We thus need to calibrate carefully how we
    play this issue, bearing in mind that the Executive Board
    meetings begin on September 26.  At the last Executive
    Board few other states supported us; most of our allies
    were conveniently out of the room or had gone home when
    this issue came up late in the evening.  The Brazilians and
    Uruguayans pushed back hard.  We would expect the
    Venezuelans to join them this time.

    ¶12. (C) ACTION REQUEST.  In view of the foregoing
    discussion, please review previously drafted guidance on
    this issue and inform Mission soonest how firmly we should
    push at the EB meeting to uncover the full extent of
    irregularities at UBO and what recommendations we should
    put forward and/or support to resolve those concerns in a
    credible, effective way.  At a minimum, the Mission
    believes that we should support retention of the UBO issue
    on the EB agenda for further monitoring and reporting at
    the spring Board meeting and not in one year as the present
    draft proposes.

    OLIVER

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