By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
UN GATE, Dec 30 – With the United Arab Emirates taking over presidency of the UN Security Council on June 1, 2023, Inner City Press on May 31 wrote to the UAE Mission to the UN to request access to its June 1 and all other press conferences by Ambassador Lana Nusseibeh.
To submit the request, Inner City Press wrote to the UAE Mission at its UN Blue Book address and at the UN email addresses listed by its purported partner - that is,
From the UAE Mission, nothing at all. For the full month, which saw the UN fails on Sudan, Ukraine and Guterres lying in Haiti on the last day. Nothing, even after Inner City Press submitted this application, and asked the UAE and its spokespeople about it every weekday.
Speaking of children, Lana Nusseibeh said she's promises her kids to protect the weekend from UNSC work, adding that "Steph" - that is, Stephane Dujarric - has named his kids in this International Day's press conference. We'll have more on this.
Inner City Press asked the UAE Mission, and the UN, about Sudan and the abandonment of UN national staff - and the UAE's support of the RSF militia, including paying them to kill people in Yemen, about about Daniela Bas, and the MONUSCO scandal - sex for UN Volunteer jobs paid with taxpayers' funds - in the DRC Congo.
This while Inner City Press is banned from entry, which it had for years until it exposed UN corruption.
The UAE did not respond once, the mission, Shahad Matar, the Perm Rep. Nothing.
Now at the end of December, after two years failing on the Council and being hypocrites, the UAE team fades out, virtue signaling to the end - as it did on COP 28, an oil company polluting the climate debate.
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