GENEVA - Mid-July brought the nearest thing international Geneva has to a recess. The World Health Assembly is over. September's calendar has not yet begun. Hotels between Cornavin and Place des Nations cut weekday rates. Interpreters took leave.
The Palais ran on a skeleton roster of summer meetings that do not fill a gallery. Missions left a duty officer and a plant.
August is not empty, just quieter
Some humanitarian desks never close. The lake path fills with people who live here. That is also diplomacy, of a kind the protocol office does not list.