| France
Taking Over
UNSC For
January No
Answers UN
Peaceeping
Rapes Despite
Press Q
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE, Jan 2 –
France took over the UN
Security Council presidency on
January 1, 2024 - while Inner
City Press is still banned
from the UN, despite its June
19 application.
On December 29,
Inner City Press wrote to the
French mission and its listed
spokesperson Alexis Mojaisky:
"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 France's
UNSC Presidency press briefing
by your Ambassador Nicholas de
Riviere on January 2, 2024. I
have questions to ask on what
you will do this month about
Gaza and Darfur, as well as
the coups in Gabon and Niger
and the conflicts in Gaza,
Ukraine, Ethiopia, Cameroon,
Yemen and Libya - and on
ongoing cases of sexual abuse
and exploitation by UN
peacekeepers on many of which
Inner City Press first
reported... Inner City Press
and I participate in the WebEx
briefings of, for example, the
IMF, e.g. on Sept 28,
2023: MS. KOZACK:
Matthew Lee, let's start with
you. Sure. QUESTIONER: Thanks
a lot. Matthew Lee, Inner
Press. 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."
With the IMF
taking my questions by WebEx,
how can your Mission not do
the same?"
Mojaisky (auto)
replied, "En congés, de retour
le 2 janvier. Je vous remercie
de contacter en cas de besoin
Arnaud Balner (Chancellerie)
ou Izabela Wiewior
(Presse). On holidays, I
will be back on January 2nd.
Please contact Arnaud Balner
or Izabela Wiewior if
needed. Jestem na
urlopie i wrócę 2 stycznia. W
razie jakichkolwiek pytań
prosimy o kontakt z Arnaudem
Balnerem (Kancelaria) lub
Izabelą Wiewior (Prasa)."
But even re-sent
to them, neither of those two
replied - although Balner
(auto) replied "A partir du 2
janvier, en cas d'urgence,
merci de vous adresser à
Alexis Mojaisky ou Lucie
Stepanyan" (the latter also
did not reply.)
On January 2,
Nicolas De Riviere took
questions from China and other
state media.
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 France and
its UN Mission, nothing.
Watch this
site.
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