Real Diplomacy and Peacekeeping

US State Department cables from places I have served plus items from my time as a UN peacekeeper. To increase public awareness of how diplomacy and peacekeeping are (were) actually done. All cables cleared by USG FOIA procedure. Cables are mostly those sent under my name from my posts but also others in which I was directly involved. UN documents and other items will also include occasional notes and background. Most recent in series on top with cables under the new series of UN documents.

Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Just for Grins: On Silverware

Here follows two unclassified cables showing what really matters during times of crisis. With this, Real Diplomacy signs off for the summer. Back in September 2018.

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

00 Brasilia 0331: Inching Along GOB Reforms Advance Slowly *

* Note: This was the last substantive cable sent under my name and the last of the Brazil series of cable to be posted here. (I departed Brasilia on February 1, 2000.) f anything redacted in this series strikes interest, you can always do a FOIA request of your own.