Inner City Press covered it.
Waltz bought and gave away a blue baseball
cap emblazoned "Make the UN Great Again" -
MUNGA. He said spoke of budget cuts.
But
these have largely spared the top echelons
of the UN, including Guterres who lives in
a mansion on Sutton Place, while banning
the Press.
Afterward the US Mission to the UN tweeted
video from MSC on X, where Inner City
Press replied reminding them of its
February 2 email to the Mission, also
submitted through the Mission's website,
still unresponded to, below.
On March 4
it emerged that US Secretary of Energy
Chris Wright will speak in the UNSC on
March 5 - it was impossible to know
earlier, because there is no program of
work online, and no answers from USUN.
Still nothing from Waltz, nor now Tammy
Bruce, even as Inner City Press covers the
Michael Wolff / Melania Trump lawsuit in
SDNY.
From Feb
2: US Ambassador Waltz:
I am writing to you as an American
journalist who has reported on the UN,
including UN corruption and waste of
taxpayers' funds, since 2006. I am
currently banned from entering the UN, by
the UN Media Accreditation and Liaison
Unit (MALU), its boss Melissa Fleming and
ultimately SG Antonio Guterres.
On June 19, 2025 I reapplied to enter the
UN, to cover the September 2025 UNGA high
level week, as the UN permits hundreds of
correspondents from Iran, China, Nicaragua
and elsewhere to do.
Six
months later on January 12, MALU sent me a
one-line denial, with no reason. I have
written to them asking for the basis for
denial; they have not
answered.
Earlier
today I was unable to question this
month's UK President of the UN Security
Council because of the ban. I am writing
to you a full month before you assume the
UNSC Presidency to ensure that you and
USUN ensure that MALU had granted me
accreditation and entry by then.
It
would be entirely unacceptable, as an
American journalist who reports daily on
the UN including with information from UN
whistleblowers exposing waste, to be
banned from your month atop the Counsil,
including your first-day press conference.
For
your information, in international
affairs, I am allowed by the IMF to enter,
and to ask questions by WebEx. Why not by
the UN? And by USUN?
As
an American journalist I am formally
asking for you help, as US Ambassador to
the UN, to resolve this and restore my
access to the UN, as a resident
correspondent. This should be accomplished
by March 1, 2026, when you assume the UNSC
Presidency, at the latest. Thank you for
your attention to this matter.
MUNGA?
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