Was Mr Deby openly advocating "resource nationalism" - wresting power away from multinational energy companies - as practised by the likes of Bolivia and Venezuela, whose deputy foreign minister was a guest in the capital in the days before the announcement?
Much more appropriate, says the president, Nursultan Nazarbaev, as he prepares to welcome foreign guests to the capital's official opening on June 10th.What's in a name?
Order was restored, and when it was time for lunch, the Vice-President and the newly-arrived ambassador, Gary Locke, made a bold statement of their own, venturing not into the sterile air-conditioned confines that usually entrap official guests to the capital, but into the narrow streets beside the Drum Tower.
It has been a busy diplomatic week for Putin, who has not been a frequent guest in western capitals over the past year; starting at the UN general assembly in New York on Monday, where Putin gave a speech calling for a global coalition against Islamic State and spent 90 minutes in talks with the US president Barack Obama.
He is a teacher turned tour guide for guests of the capital's plush Taj Tashi hotel, and like many upwardly mobile Bhutanese men, he has foregone a traditional bamboo bow for the status symbol of a high-tech carbon-fibre compound bow.
Well, if you happen to own a top-class hotel in the capital, the guest list for the noble nuptials will provide plenty of high-end clients.
The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa's guest post on venture capital earlier today.
But she had no illusions that guest houses across the capital would be bursting with young couples trying to get a room.
Among the guests was Joshua Kushner, founder of the venture capital firm Thrive Capital.
In 1519, the emperor Montezuma received the conquistador Hernán Cortés and some of his men as guests in the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlán.
Cambodia has developed a reputation as a haven for paedophiles, who frequent the capital's guest-houses and take advantage of children for as little as $2 a night.
