Despite pandemic disruptions, UN carries on -- by videoconference

The UN experienced a few hiccups in their video conferencing arrangements.

The usually buttoned-down world of the United Nations is having an unruly April as it copes with the global coronavirus pandemic in a city that is suffering terribly from it.

So far, the UN appears to have been largely spared the epidemic raging in New York, the epicenter of the disease in the United States. To keep working in such exceptional circumstances, however, calls for exceptional measures -- and, like most other organizations, the UN has experienced a few hiccups along the way.The presidency of the 15-country Security Council rotates each month in alphabetical order. After China in March, it has been the turn of the Dominican Republic in April.

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