by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
UN GATE, Feb 2 - The UN Security Council presidency for February is being taken over by the United Kingdom - while Inner City Press remains banned from the UN, despite its June 19, 2025 application.
On January 30 Inner City Press wrote to the UK mission to the UN seeking access to the February 2 "press" conference in the UN of "Charge d'Affaires" James Kariuki in order to ask questions about items on the UNSC's agenda and the UK's seeming sensorship
"I have questions to ask on what you will do this month about Venezuela, Iran, Gaza, UNRWA and Sudan, 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 - Inner City Press is asking to be provided with access to your UK mission's stakeouts and press conferences this month as UNSC President" - this as the UK is embroiled in OSA censorship.
No answer, despite writing directly to Kariuki, even as at 8 am on February 2 the UN's Media Accreditation and Liaison Unit belatedly announced the hybrid - online - presser at 1 pm on Febraury 2. Meanwhile UNSG Antonio Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric refuses to answer written questions.
Inner City Press on June 19, 2025 applied to the UN for access - amid its the new UN Betrayals book here, to cover the 2025UNGA week. Only six months later, the UN sent a denial with no explanation, and has refused follow-up. Inner City Press has a NYC Press Pass and writes about UN corruption and waste daily. From the UK and its UN Mission, nothing.
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