April 25, New York, New York.
I tried to visit the United Nation Headquarter after my arrival in Manhattan. Unfortunately, the guided tour had been sold out, my time there was restricted to the visitor’s lobby, gift shops and the lawn. This must be what the writer of the book of Genesis imagined when he wrote the story about the Tower of Babel. Visitors from all corners of the globe, speaking in their native tongues (though disproportionally in some form of Chinese) and some of the African friends were even decked out in their more colorful traditional garbs. I am fascinated or rather amazed that the UN could get anything done at all. I think most of the visitors just wanted to click pictures and tell friends at home that they had been to the UNHQ. This meant one of the items that received the most photographic attention was the set of portraits of UN Secretary-Generals displayed in the lobby donated by none other than the Republic of IRAN.
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