| As
Bahrain
Inherits UNSC
No Press
Answers on
Crises Website
Broken Chat
Bot
UNresponsive
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack UN GATE, April 1
- The UN Security Council
presidency for April is being
taken over by Bahrain - while
Inner City Press remains
banned from the UN, despite
its June 19, 2025 application. On March
31 Inner City Press wrote to
the Bahrain mission seeking
access to the April 1 "press"
conference in the UN of
Ambassador Jamal Fares
Alrowaiei
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
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
Bahrain
mission's
stakeouts and
press
conferences
this month as
UNSC
President.
This has also
been submitted
through the
chat bot form
on your
Mission's
website - the
main form does
not work, FYI
- so receipt
is presumed,
confirmation
is requested,
and response
for
reporting." No
response even
a day later from the
Bahrain chat
bot - as the
PR sat for
questions by,
among others,
a UN
Correspondent
who did a fundraising
with sex
trafficking
convict
Ghislaine Maxwell.
We will stay
on this - our
April 1
questions
included some
to Bahrain,
unanswered. Inner City
Press on June 19, 2025 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. Only in January
2026 a cursory denial with no
reason given. Watch this
site.
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