Simon and I properly geek out on UN-ery: what silenceprocedure actually means and how annoying it is when someone breaks it, how resolutions go into blue, how resolutions are actually written, what really happens in those back-corridor negotiations AND a hugely awkward storyinvolving a missing coat and a foreign minister.
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Simon Cleobury is now Head of Arms Control and Disarmament at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and runs the course Diplomatic Tradecraft for Non-Diplomats. Sign up for the next course here:
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