by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
UN GATE, May 31 – South Korea gets the UN Security Council presidency on June 1, 2024 - while Inner City Press is still banned from the UN, despite its June 19 application.
On May 30, Inner City Press wrote to the South Korean Mission: This is a timely request that you allow Inner City Press to enter and cover, and/or provide the WebEx pass code(s) to access the Republic of Korea's UNSC Presidency press briefing by your Ambassador Joonkook Hwang on June 3, 2024. I have questions to ask on what you will do this month about DPRK, Gaza and Sudan, as well as the coups in Gabon and Niger and the conflicts in Ukraine, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Yemen and Libya, on crypto fraudster Do Kwon in Montenegro - and on ongoing cases of sexual abuse and exploitation by UN peacekeepers on many of which Inner City Press first reported - Inner City Press is asking to be provided with access to your ROK mission's stakeouts and press conferences this month as UNSC President" including virtually.
Then on May 31 UN Spox Stephane Dujarric said there will be "no Zoom." So the South Korea Mission is fully complicit in - and benefits, it thinks, by - UNSG Antonio Guterres' censorship, just as they did with the less total censorship by their Ban Ki-moon. We'll have more on this.
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Inner City Press on June 19 applied to the UN for access, as it gives 100s, to cover the UNGA week. Inner City Press has a NYC Press Pass and writes about the UN. From South Korea and its UN Mission, nothing.
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