The great figures of the World Government are all in there inside that Meeting right now.
the reason why the runner asked is none other than to make sure the news that he is about to tell is something important.
They are all colleagues.
The runner did not want to lose his job and more importantly he did not want to lose his life. Who knows the minds of the powerful?
If he is to barge in to the Meeting Room, he must have some earth shaking news that would make those people views the news more important than his life.
The big matters in the eyes of the runner and the people of Secret Observatory might be a small thing in the eyes of the titanic figures of the World Government.
And small things in the eyes of those people eyes means it is not a matter at all.
