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Les fantômes du Palais
The ghosts of the
Palais
INTERVIEW
Un regard neuf sur
la représentation du personnel
PERSONNEL
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please
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Marche de lespoir
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games goes to Crete
Questions de multilinguisme
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nous a quitté
LAssociation
Pluriels
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Mise au point
GLOBE
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de la filière «riz»
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Rice Around
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United Nations Bazaar
on November
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to the language problem
UN Security Council:
expand the members
La revolution du
pianiste
Born a king, born
a slave
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FEUILLETON
The woman in sunglasses
La femme aux lunettes
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The ghosts of the Palais
He had a rosy face with pert eyes. He was extremely well dressed and
could have looked like any of his colleagues except that
towards
the middle of the meeting he took the floor and started to make a long
speech about sugar beet crop. A very interesting intervention except
that the theme of the meeting was the restructuring of the steel industry.
This worthy delegate, whose origin I will not mention, spent two whole
days listening to the problems of the steel industry. Nevertheless,
during the adoption of the report he insisted that his piece on sugar
beet be mentioned in the final document. Nobody ever figured out whether
the man had attended the wrong meeting or was a converted metallurgist.
We also very often have to deal with ghost delegates who either send
in their application form and never show up or show up on the first
half day in order for their name to appear on the list of participants
and disappear thereafter. It enables some of them to get a visa, which
otherwise they would have difficulty obtaining.
During one recent meeting two delegates almost started to fight, because
one of them had been mandated by a minister who had in the meantime
resigned, while the other delegate had been nominated by his successor.
These two representatives had diverging views on the same
project.
The secretariat puts a lot of effort into making sure that delegates
that come from all over the world have really been nominated by their
governments. However due to communication delays as well as the status
of some delegates it is very hard for us to throw out an intruder. At
a time where security seems to be at the heart of all our activities,
this antiquated system needs to be reviewed. Why not ask permanent missions
to tattoo their delegates in a discreet place so that we can recognize
them, or more simply to systematically check who is coming and what
for.
Editor-in-Chief, Jean Michel
Jakobowicz
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