| France
Failed Month
Atop UNSC No
Reply to Press
on
Francafrique
Amid Ban by
Guterres
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE, May 1 –
France took over the UN
Security Council presidency on
April 1, 2025 - while Inner
City Press is still banned
from the UN, despite its June
19 application.
Back on March -
Inner City Press wrote to
France's Mission to the UN:
"This is a timely request that
you allow Inner City Press to
enter the UN and cover, and/or
provide the WebEx pass
code(s) to access France's
UNSC Presidency press briefing
by French Ambassador Jerome
Bonnafont on April 1, 2025 at
3 pm. I have questions to ask
on what you will do this month
about Gaza, UNRWA and
Cameroon, DRC, 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.
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:
The French
Mission to the UN by May 1 at
11 am had not answered that or
any of Inner City Press' daily
questions emailed to the
French Mission about the
wreckage of France's
colonialism, in Africa in
Mali, Senegal, Cameroon and
elsewhere. Nothing. No
accountability. Inner City
Press previously reported that
the UN Peacekeeping job was
supposed to go to Bonafont
before Herve Ladsous backed
into it - and banned the Press
- we will stay on this.
Watch this
site.
Inner City
Press on June 19, 2024 again 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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