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I was hired as a Press Officer to cover meetings at the United Nations Secretariat. External journalists are not allowed to do this - so our summaries are one way for them to learn about what happens in these meetings. We report on General Assembly sessions where heads of state and government, ministers and representatives of permanent missions to the United Nations speak and elaborate on their various country positions on a variety of global matters; on the meetings of the various committees of the Assembly and the other substantive bodies of the organization; as well as on Security Council deliberations which address the various threats to world peace, development and stability on a daily basis. Every morning, I read the news online and check the United Nations Journal to see what is happening for the day. We work in pairs, and on an average day my partner and I spend six hours in a room full of diplomats, writing real-time reports about what they are saying on critical global issues. At the end of the day, we publish a news summary on our website.
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