| Japan
Takes Over
UNSC For March
No Answer on
Gaza or North
Korea Despite
Press
Questions
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE, Feb 29 –
Japan gets the UN Security
Council presidency on March 1,
2024 - while Inner City Press
is still banned from the UN,
despite its June 19 application.
On February 29,
Inner City Press wrote to the
Japanese Mission: 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 Japan's UNSC Presidency
press briefing by your
Ambassador Yamazaki on March
1, 2024.
I have questions
to ask on what you will do
this month about Gaza, UNRWA
and the coups in Gabon and
Niger, Japan, North Korea and
the conflicts in Sudan,
Ukraine, Ethiopia, Cameroon,
Yemen and Libya, and the
revelations of El Pollo now in
SDNY - and on ongoing cases of
sexual abuse and exploitation
by UN peacekeepers 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: MS.
KOZACK: Matthew Lee,
let's start with you. Sure.
QUESTIONER: Thanks a lot.
Matthew Lee, Inner Press.
Thanks for taking the
question. I have two coups and
crypto, but I'll go in
different order... I saw the
program with Burkina Faso, and
so I'm just wondering what's
the status of the IMF's
discussions with and programs
with other coup governments
like in Niger, Mali and now
Gabon and Guinea.
By day's end, no
answer from the Japan mission.
Only this: "I am seconded to
UNDP now. I will be checking
emails intermittently, but may
delay in response, and please
send at below address for any
urgent matters. Thank
you. Shinobu Yamaguchi."
No answer from below address -
or Blue Book address.
Watch this
site.
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 Ecuador and
its UN Mission, nothing.
Watch this
site.
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