GENEVA - Late March brought a dense but unspectacular week of conventional-weapons and humanitarian-law meetings at the Palais des Nations. Missions sent experts, not foreign ministers. Hotels between Cornavin and Nations still raised the weekday rate.
Swiss diplomats like these weeks because they look like the country's self-image: useful, multilingual, and not on the evening news in Olten.
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International Geneva will pack tighter in May, as our health fortnight shows. March is the reminder that the machine idles high.