by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
UN GATE, Feb 23 – Under Antonio Guterres as UNSG, the wider UN has failed for years on Ukraine, as on Cameroon, Gaza, Sudan, Haiti. Guterres also bans the Press that asks of this.
On February 22, 2025, a statement: the US "has proposed a simple, historic resolution in the United Nations that we urge all member states to support in order to chart a path to peace. This resolution is consistent with President Trump’s view that the UN must return to its founding purpose." Litmus tests - in both the UNSC & GA.
Back on November 27, 2024 Inner City Press wrote to the UN: "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 to the UNSC Presidency press conference on December 2, 2024. I have questions to ask on what you will do this month about Gaza, UNRWA - including lawsuit by American victims against it in SDNY - UN corruption in Colombia, Libya, DRC and Sudan, Ukraine, DRC and Rwanda, about the SDNY indictment involving Turkey's Mission to the UN as well as the coups in Gabon and Niger and the conflicts in Ukraine, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Yemen and Libya - and on ongoing cases of sexual abuse and exploitation by UN peacekeepers, and Missions' abuses in NYC, 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, and also in 2024 and 2025.
The UN did not answer - they are abusing their immunity, thumbing their nose at the First Amendment and related principles. We will stay on this.
Inner City Press on June 19, 2024 again 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 the UN Mission, nothing.
Watch this site.
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