Observations On the Doha Conference Circuit

I stumbled across this interesting post from a Vietnamese staff in the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry named Pham Hoang Long. He recently visited Qatar with the Foreign Minister of Vietnam to attend a conference...Here are some of his observations :

Well, you may know that Doha is so popular for international conference. However, they was not professional at all in organization. They assigned a Liaison Officer, who could not speak any languages except for Arabic to our delegation. However, there was another Liaison Officer, maybe for Thai delegation, who turned out to love Vietnam so much. He helped me a lot and really wanted to go to Vietnam. And when the Summit finished, I knew why Doha is so popular, simply because they are so rich . They covered all accomodation, meal, even laundry. And normally for international conferences, shuttle bus is already good enough, but Doha provided shuttle cars; all were brand new and most were BMW. Whenever I needed to go somewhere, just went to the transportation desk, and a couple of minutes later, a luxurious limousine was ready for me.
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The weather was so hot, but dry enough. But only foreigners were working outdoor. I even felt that Qatar citizen didn’t work, they just took out the oil, sold it and used money to hire foreigners.

Somehow I don't think this is too inaccurate for someone who visited for just a weekend!