The buildings, designed by an international group which included Le Corbusier, are impressive, but inside—from the tourist perspective—there's not much going on. Even when the General Assembly is in session-(usually only in the fall or during a world crisis so serious the Security Council convenes), one can only see a bunch of people milling and sitting around, and half listening to a usually uninspired doctrinaire harangue. The rest of the year there are occasional meetings of the Trusteeship Council, the World Intellectual Property Council and other subgroups, plus a fairly tedious guided tour of mostly empty meeting rooms. If it's unusual representatives you're looking for, you have a better chance of finding them at your state capital. To see dashingly dressed Arab sheiks, try Fifth Avenue.
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