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working on some complicated oil delivery contracts' tax issues or something like that. Much like the produce department guy in a supermarket does his job without waiting for directions from the supermarket manager. Thinking on how ambitious and powerful a young career diplomat should be, I wouldn't think they would be sitting around their office waiting for the ambassador to send them an email. In the case of Dutch
Antilles and Aruba, the
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I see where you are coming from, but it should be noted that not all relationships are completely political, and these are probably a good example of that. Compared to our typical "x-y articles" United States relations are much more complex the country literally maintains relations with every type of
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Hooray, someone finally nominated a couple of these articles that have the United States as one of the X-Y nations. Biruitorul is entirely right-- Aruba is not a nation, and the
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What you are proposing is an unmaintainable web of content forks. Yes, consuls do have limited autonomy, but a) what they do is not terribly notable, and can easily be noted in higher-up articles; b) if they do exercise too much autonomy and diverge from their state's foreign policy, they are bound
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Florida. And maybe Gujarat and Osaka. The government of Texas has direct official contact with the government of Brazil. The consul general in Houston would be able to work independently of the busy ambassador in Washington if her or she was
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How can a country have relations with something that is not a country? It would be one thing if the
Antilles claimed independence, but since they don't make any attempt at independence, there's no way that they can have foreign relations. We need (perhaps we already have it, I don't know) an
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