by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
UN GATE, Nov 28 - The UN Security Council presidency for December is being taken over by Slovenia - while Inner City Press remains banned from the UN, despite its June 19, 2025 application.
On November 26 Inner City Press wrote to the Slovenian mission seeking access to the December 1 "press" conference in the UN of Ambassador Samuel Žbogar in order to ask questions about items on the UNSC's agenda:
"I have questions to ask on what you will do this month about DPRK, Gaza, UNRWA and Rwanda, Kashmir, DRC, Greenland, 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 - including its current scoops on Colombia, DRC, Libya and Somalia. And most recently South Sudan and UNECA, and the verdict against BNP Paribas on Sudan."
No answer, even as November 28 ended - only an autoresponder from Ursa Ponikvar, "I am out of the office until 28.11.2025 - meanwhile UNSG Antonio Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric has said Žbogar "press" conference is only for those allowed into the building.
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 Sierra Leone and its UN Mission, nothing.
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