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Diplomacy in a Pint-pot

on BBC Radio 4 FM

In a world which now numbers 164 countries, how should the Foreign Office deploy its diminishing resources? In conventional embassies in Europe, outposts of Whitehall in Brussels and Washington or in mini-missions in developing countries? In the first of three talks examining some of the dilemmas facing British diplomacy in the next decade,
Simon Jenkins looks at the question of cuts and where they should come.

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