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HARDtalk: Tom Fletcher 

02/06/2016 GMT

Tom Fletcher 

BBC World News - HARDtalk, Tom Fletcher

Stephen Sackur speaks to Tom Fletcher, former British Ambassador to Lebanon.

Stephen Sackur speaks to Tom Fletcher, former British Ambassador to Lebanon. In this globalised internet age, what kind of value do diplomats add? Is diplomacy as we know it dead?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Tom Fletcher who was appointed British ambassador to Lebanon at the tender age of thirty six. Five years on he's just written an operational review of the British foreign office. What is the point of the modern day diplomat? Theirs is a world of fortified embassies, chauffeured limousines, and elaborate protocol, but in this globalised internet age what kind of value do they add? Is diplomacy as we know it dead? 

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