Eminence grise --- Just one example Nathalie, in 1990, Hun Sen, then (and still) PM of Cambodia, did not want to speak to the ICRC anymore for various reasons (too long to explain here). I asked a prominent member of Swedish RC who had been very close to Hun Sen in the early 80s when Hun Sen was only Foreign Minister, to go to Phnom Penh and talk to him. A couple of months later, we started working in Cambodia again. Eminence grise, or the old boys' network !!

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