| As US Mike Waltz Talks
MUNGA in Munich UN Bans Inner City
Press Feb 2 Request Pends
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN
GATE,
Feb 13 – While the United
Nations under Antonio Guterres
pontificates about press
freedom with banning Inner
City Press which asked about
and reports on UN waste and
corruption, on February 12 US
Ambassador to the UN Mike
Waltz spoke at the Munich
Security Conference.
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:
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?
Watch this site.
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