"What it does is it brings things into a more realistic perspective, " says Neale Smiles, business director of military training company H4 Global.

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Though we can certainly understand from his perspective the financial pressure to be less than forthcoming about past training habits and products ingested.

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One unique aspect of the conference is training provided by experts working within the UN system who train participants within the perspective of a diplomatic career.

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