ANN CROTTY: Liberté, égalité, fraternité and chaos
You might think attending a summit in Paris would be smooth sailing. You’d be wrong
29 June 2023 - 05:00
It was about 6.30pm on Wednesday when I finally received the programme for the summit for a New Global Financing Pact. That was minutes after I’d checked into my €300-a-night Ibis hotel room, somewhere north of Montparnasse in Paris.
What a wonderful surprise: President Cyril Ramaphosa was addressing the summit. Along with 40 other heads of state from mainly African, South American and Caribbean countries. Perhaps my traumatic 12-hour journey from Carcassonne, in southwest France, would be worthwhile...
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