

By Jeong Ji-su

Women were not allowed to serve food at the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague (March 24 ~25) in case men get distracted, the Huffington Post reported Monday.

Director of the catering company, Hans van der Linde, strived to create a "uniform look," and women simply did not fit in.

"The personnel needs to act in as reserved a manner as possible, and you can't achieve that by adding a couple of pretty, conspicuous ladies to the mix," he spoke to the Algemeen Dagblad, the Dutch national newspaper.

Jean-Paul Weijers, director of the Protocol bureau told The Independent that this decision could have been made to prevent the world leaders from getting distracted.

This act, unsurprisingly, sparked up a controversy on social media networks. One commented, "Putin must be laughing his socks off."