Diplomats and the danger of leeks

by | May 12, 2011


Working through the website of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to gather information for CIC’s annual Review of Political Missions, I have stumbled across one of the great diplomatic photographs of all time.  Here is Ambassador Benedikt Haller, Head of the OSCE Office in Minsk, during a field trip to monitor a project in Bragin district on OSCE support for rural development in Belarus:

The photo is a bit blurry, but for an – ahem – enlarged version, click here. As has been said so often, major leeks threaten to make the work of diplomats impossible.

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