by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
UN GATE, Feb 29 – Japan gets the UN Security Council presidency on March 1, 2024 - while Inner City Press is still banned from the UN, despite its June 19 application.
On February 29, Inner City Press wrote to the Japanese 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 Japan's UNSC Presidency press briefing by your Ambassador Yamazaki on March 1, 2024.
I have questions to ask on what you will do this month about Gaza, UNRWA and the coups in Gabon and Niger, Japan, North Korea 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: MS. KOZACK: Matthew Lee, let's start with you. Sure. QUESTIONER: Thanks a lot. Matthew Lee, Inner Press. Thanks for taking the question. I have two coups and crypto, but I'll go in different order... I saw the program with Burkina Faso, and so I'm just wondering what's the status of the IMF's discussions with and programs with other coup governments like in Niger, Mali and now Gabon and Guinea.
By day's end, no answer from the Japan mission. Only this: "I am seconded to UNDP now. I will be checking emails intermittently, but may delay in response, and please send at below address for any urgent matters. Thank you. Shinobu Yamaguchi." No answer from below address - or Blue Book address.
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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 Ecuador and its UN Mission, nothing.
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