In addition to the ubiquitous rats, it is said, since humans have deserted downtown Manhattan, there are only a handful of international officials living in the " glass house ", the UN headquarters in New York. Funny for those few dozen diplomats led by Secretary General Antonio Guterres, loyal to the post in his 38th floor office overlooking the East River, who usually devote their days, and number of sleepless nights, to " maintaining the international peace and security ”.
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Victim too of the coronavirus which has dispersed its living forces, the New York headquarters of the world organization is trying to save the essentials: ensuring the delivery of humanitarian aid to the besieged areas in Syria, ensuring that its 100,000 peacekeepers do not spread the coronavirus in the deserts and jungles of Africa, the refugee camps of the Middle East and Asia, as was the case with cholera in Haiti in 2010 (9,568 dead).
Several virtual sessions interspersed with technical "bugs", and two weeks of telephone negotiations, led to the holding, on Thursday, of a session devoted to the global coronavirus pandemicEverything else - talks
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