"It is running from one meeting to another meeting; it is checking that the cars are there at the right moment; it is finding a restaurant when suddenly a minister says, ‘I want to eat a hamburger.’ It is sending a security guard to Abercrombie to buy a T-shirt for a teenager. It is really an exciting thing. It is trying to find the minister of Uzbekistan without confusing him with the minister of Tajikistan. It is finding that North Lawn Building, Room 17 doesn’t exist. You discover that the interpreter only knows Italian when you needed Spanish and the minister only knows Russian. It is diplomacy at its worst."

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an unnamed veteran diplomat, asked by the New York Times’s Neil MacFarquhar to summarize the U.N. General Assembly. (via washingtonpoststyle)

To get to the North Lawn Building, Room 17, you need to transfer to the C or E lines at 50th Street then find the secret train tunnel under the Waldorf-Astoria after performing the secret handshake with a Freemason.  Doesn’t he / she know that?

(via inothernews)

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