Comment: " ... fresh off their meeting with the UN committee in Geneva earlier this week" ...
I am assuming that they (as always) flew First Class ... and stayed in the finest hotels. Geneva is so lovely at this time of the year. 

I wonder if they had lunch with Bono.

In the autumn of 1971 I was standing on a dock in northern Manitoba ... a newly-minted school-teacher attending an orientation session before heading still further north. A young native guy walks out along the dock and joins me at the end. A beautiful evening. Silence. Maybe geese overhead ... 

He speaks ... not to me ... but out ... clearly ... onto the big calm lake.

"There is an old legend from my people. <pause> If a hunter makes a very strong bow ... and goes out onto the land and shoots an arrow straight up into the sky ... <pause again> it will strike a large airplane. And on that airplane there will be at least one Indian going to a conference."

Buddy turned to me, smiled mischievously.

You can't "make-up" this shit.