Pricing the good life

摘要

Soon after Federico Mayor was elected di-rector-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 1987, he made a special request to the Headquarters Committee of the General Conference of member states: He wanted a new apartment. The previous director-general, Ama-dou-Mahtar M'Bow, had been living in the converted sixth- and seventh-floor wings of the agency's Fonte-noy headquarters in Paris.