by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
UN GATE, Feb 1 – Guyana tooks over the UN Security Council presidency on February 1, 2024 - while Inner City Press remains banned from the UN, despite its June 19 application.
On the morning of January 31, Inner City Press wrote to the Guyana 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 Guyana's UNSC Presidency press briefing by your Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues-Birketton February 1, 2024.
I have questions to ask on what you will do this month about Gaza, UNRWA and the coups in Gabon and Niger, Guyana's situation with Venezuela and the conflicts in Sudan, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Yemen and Libya, and the revelations of El Pollo now in SDNY - and on ongoing cases of sexual abuse and exploitation by UN peacekeepers on many of which Inner City Press first reported
Please note that Inner City Press and I participate in the WebEx briefings of, for example, the IMF: March 31, 2022 and since with new IMF spokesperson Sept 28, 2023
By the end of February 1, no answer from the Guyana mission. The Ambassador held a comical press conference, nothing on Ukraine, broken audio, nothing but best wishes and wishful thinking. Watch this site.
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 Ecuador and its UN Mission, nothing.
Watch this site.
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