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- Perseverance, patience, creative, the ability to take risks. Never give up. Good
- Creativity. A sense of good humor. Calmness.
- Knowing when to get involved and when to step back.
- Major tasks of diplomats:
- Linking their government’s decision-makers to foreign counterparts.
- Advocacy of their government’s policies and views.
- Negotiation on their government’s behalf
- Commendation to their government of ways to advance or defend its interests
- Promotion of trade and investment
- Protection of compatriots
- Management of programs of cooperation between governments
- Reporting and analysis of relevant foreign developments and realities
- Establishment of facilitative relationships with the officials and members of the elites who influence them
- Cultivation of an image for their nation which is favorable to its interests.
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