Two weeks agao Condoleeza Rice decided that there ought to be a meeting among NATO's foreign ministers to discuss Afghanistan and Kosovo. The Secretary of State of the United States is a voice to be heard in IR, and so at NATO we went into full gear to make the preparations. Art was installed, the security arrangements made, the media invited. It was all very impressive albeit a bit of a pain in the ass.
Kosovo was discussed but I wasn't there, I couldn't get a badge to attend. From what I've read though nothing special has come out, just the continued support for Ahtisaari and the UN process, its really in the realm of the Security Council now, only the Russians can bog things up.
Tatevik received her prize for a lunch for 2 at the NATO staff centre and we use today to claim it. Its really not a special place, I don't know why it intimidates me. We take full advantage of the free lunch to run up the tab. I start with terrine de pate, Tatevik takes the cheese croquette. We both have the special du jour, pigeon in trappiste sauce....yea now I've had pigeon in both oriental and western cuisine, its not something I think I'll ever need to try again, we conclude with chocolate mousse and coffee. Oh and a bottle of nice wine to boot probably brings the tab to around 80 euros for NATO to cover, which is sweet.
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