Virtual Talk: The UN Delegate Party Scene

Some days, when it’s your job to help achieve the mandate of peace on earth, it’s a requirement to come down, look at the art and relax,” or so says an officer with the UN Department of Peace Keeping Operations (now the Department of Peace Operations). He is a regular on the UN Party Scene. Yes, many, many nights, these starched shirts and suits — or occasionally, elaborately costumed — loosen their ties and hang out for Friday drinks at the UN Delegates Lounge, the various staff Halloween, Christmas, Kwanzaa parties and even elaborate charity events on the lawn. For a few years, however, the fate of the UN Delegates Lounge hung in as much balance as any country under the Charter. But under pressure from his courtiers, then-Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon reopened the “Seventh Committee”, as loyalists lovingly call it (an inside joke regarding U.N.’s six working committees). Take a tour of the scene Ban described, “we are all leaders with no rigid rules, and we can speak out of order," with journalist Adrian Brune. For more events like this, become an Untapped New York Insider! https://untappedcities.com/become-a-member/