Slovenia
Inherits UNSC
No Press
Answers on
Crises as Bans
Inner City
Press Like
Guterres
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE, Nov 28 –
The UN Security Council
presidency for December is
being taken over by Slovenia –
while Inner City Press remains
banned from the UN, despite
its June 19, 2025 application.
On
November 26 Inner City Press
wrote to the Slovenian mission
seeking access to the December
1 “press” conference in the UN
of Ambassador Samuel Žbogar
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 DPRK,
Gaza, UNRWA
and Rwanda,
Kashmir, DRC,
Greenland,
Sudan,
Ukraine, DRC
and Rwanda,
about the SDNY
indictment
involving
Turkey’s
Mission to the
UN as well as
the coups in
Gabon and
Niger and the
conflicts in
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
– including
its current
scoops on
Colombia, DRC,
Libya and
Somalia. And
most recently
South Sudan
and UNECA, and
the verdict
against BNP
Paribas on
Sudan.”
No answer,
even as
November 28
ended – only
an
autoresponder
from Ursa Ponikvar, “I
am out of the
office until
28.11.2025 – meanwhile
UNSG Antonio
Guterres’
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric has
said Žbogar
“press”
conference is
only for those
allowed into
the building.
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 Sierra
Leone and its UN Mission,
nothing.
Watch this
site.
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