Beware - Confession ahead...
Today we arrived at the main session where countries were reporting back on their work in relation to the CSW agenda over the last year.
We entered the room and decided that we would like to sit closer to the action... little did I know how close.
In a previous session delegates were able to sit on the main floor, so we joined other delegates on the conference floor. After much consideration of the empty seats we decided on two together Hungary and Honduras.
We settled in, took out our laptops and started taking notes.
Lots of people were coming and going around us, swapping of seats, chatting, taking of photographs. Everything was fine and we started to relax.
Then I started to notice that the people who were on the screens reporting back to the conference room were the country's delegates and ministers. We were sitting with the diplomats!
How do we escape without appearing on the screen? or getting kicked out by security? There is no way to do this subtly….. But what if Hungary gets called to feed back and we end up on the screen?
We decided to sit and hope nobody notices us... and then the minister from Honduras arrives to take her seat!
Through some clever manoeuvring and rudimentary Spanish, we were able to escape back to the visitors seating with very few people noticing...
Except of course the rest of the EI delegation!!!
Another first to add to my first time at the UN 😉
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