Small tragedy of the ambassador Chamov

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On the epic background of a great tragedy in Libya, a small tragedy occurred at the Russian embassy in Libya. The ambassador Vladimir Chamov was rapidly withdrawn . Everyone says there is no truth on Earth, but there is no truth and above. Such a sudden feedback is an extremely rare thing. At 24 o’clock, the country is left by persons who have become non-ghrates due to activities incompatible with the status of a diplomat. Or very fined employees. From our embassy in Athens, Vice-Consul flew at 24 hours, caught by his own on the resale of preferential embassy gasoline (it was laid with our diplomats with a 50%discount). The ambassador is not engaged in reconnaissance, and those who are engaged in reselling gasoline are eliminated in their youth, at the stage of vice-consul. The way Chamov left the capital of the country of stay is a unique case. And he burned on the very diplomatic activity in which he overdated. I will now quote a piece to the topic from my month ago a book , because he is about the case of Chamov. “The ambassador’s work is to acquire friends for your country where it was sent. The more and the more high -ranking friends the better. For this, the ambassador (and any diplomat) himself must be or become a friend of their country in the eyes of the local elite. And this is not always hypocrisy. The diplomat very often becomes the lobby of the country of stay and relations with her before his own government. After all, he is responsible for this relationship. Therefore, whatever the regime in the country: Emperor Nero, Nebuchadnezzar, Caligula with a horse in the Senate or King Herod - he has to deal with him and demonstrate in his capital, which in some areas can be useful relations. And that, being with him in a good relationship, for example, at least persuading not to exterminate all the men of the male sex in Bethlehem and all its limits from two years and lower by the time that he got from the Magi. This, of course, if the ambassadors to babies are at all. Because the main task of the ambassador is to support and develop good -neighborly and mutually beneficial. That is, to pay the attention of politicians , businessmen and cultural figures of their country to the country where it is accredited. To defend its importance for the national interests of her own power or hold. And in the neighboring capital, the same ambassador is doing the same. And the same in the plain kingdom, the mountain kingdom and the sultry state, and so on to the very edges of the world. Competition is obtained. And also, God forbid, the kingdom, where you were sent, in a hostile relationship with the kingdom, where your colleague was sent. There is no sleep or rest at all. It is necessary to prove to your leadership that your kingdom is more important than the Evonnaya Kingdom, be there at least all the mountains of the world. So they compete, it happens, the ambassadors of Russia or the USA in some Greece and Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan, India and Pakistan, or, here in Georgia and Russia. ” For example, in the famous telegram in Georgia on August 7, 2008, the US Ambassador to Tbilisi John Tefft writes: “All the certificate has the evidence that the embassy confirms the Saakashvili statement that the war was not the initial intention of Georgia.” And in the September telegram from Moscow, US Ambassador to Russia John Bayerly warns: "Military cooperation with Georgia can disrupt the process of rebooting with Russia." Both are ambassadors of the United States, but each in telegrams is inclined in favor of the country where it works. Professional disease of the ambassador is difficult to observe the equidistance. It would seem that it is logical to appoint an ambassador to the country of a person who began here and grew up as a diplomat, was on several business trips, knows the language, everyone and everything. But diplomatic departments are aware of the danger of such appointments and make them infrequently. The ambassador to the country - to the bewilderment of the townsfolk - often comes a person from a different direction: yes, he does not know anyone here, but no one remembers him in shabby trousers, he is not friends with anyone, and here he is not obliged to love anyone in the world. In order to not seem to be a stranger to his own country, especially, a stranger boy, from the documents of the ambassador, it should be seen that the interests of his homeland, her values, her political course are more important for him even more than friendship with hospitable natives, and a good ambassador does not forget about it. Here, the Bayerli ambassador, after the call, does not continue to sell the weapons of Georgia: “Of course, this will cause the discontent of President Saakashvili, but we do not see another way to neutralize the advantage of Russia in territorial, geographical and other relationships.” That is, he does not try for Russia, but for neutralization - he sits high, looks far - even to the very top of national interests. As a result, the Ambassador of TEFT was quickly recalled from Georgia after the war. The Bayerli Ambassador is still here, although after publications on Wikileaks it will be difficult for him to work here for a long time. Who the diplomat works
The swift of the review of the ambassador of Chamov is an exceptional case. Obviously, Chamov, who was sent to Libya with a natural embassy task - to acquire and hold Libya as a friend of Russia - he himself became a friend, or rather, a friend of the government in which he worked. Standard Embassy Qui Pro Quo. He generally gets difficult candidates for friends: in 2005 he was appointed to Baghdad to make friends with Iraq, who could not deal with himself then. And after the beginning of the current unrest, Chamov began to protect Gaddafi from rebels, Americans, and the UN with a vengeance. Maybe he even tried to find a rational grain in the version of Gaddafi that the uprising is the work of Al-Qaeda’s hands and bitten adolescents. That is, to act as an agent of the influence of the government of his country, or rather, an agent who promoted cooperation between Russia and Libya and defended the common geopolitical interests - as he understood them. For which he paid. Although the question is for what exactly. The ambassador, who took everyone into the presidential administration with his encrypted agitation and propaganda, decorfully, in compliance with decency, would retire towards the airport, and would not fly out of the capital with a bullet. Therefore, another option is possible. I am writing here as a blogger, and not as a reporter, that is, without phrases such as "informed, but wished to remain an unknown source." This is my reasonable assumption, deductive method, elementary Watson. Diplomat-one of my colleagues sighed at the previous job-not the decision of decision-making, he is a VIP member. This is not a personal insight of one civil servant, this is a collective conscious conscious of all "and other officials." And I will add on my own: a diplomat-a VIP-reporter. Now embassy journalism for the elect - in the maximum quantities in history - is available to everyone on WikiLeaks. The category of the best reports includes the famous “Dagestan wedding” by the Ambassador of William Burns , the Persian miniature “Daughters of Sultan Karimov in the nightclub” of the American ambassador in Tashkent, the genre scene “Underground Halloween in Saudi Arabia” of the American General Consul in Jiddd or Portrait in The interior (still life with a character?) Vladislav Surkov’s work of the same Bayerli. This process cannot be understood mechanically. Reporting, which the ambassador sends to the center as a VIP journalist affect its high-ranking readers and, accordingly, those messages that they lower to him as a VIP-landing to transfer to the native government. But the grief to a person, when he is one of the entire Foreign Ministry about his postal and correspondent duties and, carried away by the function of “establishing mutually beneficial relations”, will behave as a politician. It was this, and not just the enhanced lobbying of the interests of Gaddafi against this installation, which led Chamov under the disgrace. He could recklessly and, moreover, speak publicly in Libya. To promise something to the Libyan leadership, or even the leader himself-for example, that Russia will not miss a resolution at the UN. It is possible that this promise was given to witnesses. Having given a word, holding on, without giving - berth. The above is not a sparrow, flew out - climb into the body. Tunis -Moscow flight arrives. Having made a promise, based on his own understanding of Russian politics, he could start desperately, as they say in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to “push” its implementation. Paugh, crushed - and everything is to no avail. The Kremlin acted for the highest geopolitical reasons, the ambassador from the interests of friendship and cooperation with the government of Libya, to which he brought universal letters. But whoever sits above, and the cards in his hands. PRDTL Tchk could be the third coming, but in a certain situation - a decisive circumstance. The last drop to poison for the author of the cipher -telegrams. The ambassador is an object of not only an attentive study of foreign intelligence, but also - like other diplomats - the close and respectful attention of the service of the internal counterintelligence of his own country. An aggravating circumstance could be that the ambassador at some event with the participation of official government officials, at a meeting, dinner, at dinner, at breakfast, at negotiations, on Friday prayer said something in the hearts about the current Russian foreign policy , power, the first person. And not only embassy, ​​Mid's telegrams, but also intelligence and counterintelligence telegrams fall on the table to the first person. Last night there was a blogger version that Chamov threw Medvedev in the face the word “traitor”. Yletaderp, Pretyidateli, Prdtl-something like this: because he could only throw his word in an encrypted form. That is, before this would lay down on the table to the president, this would receive the head. The referendum of the embassy (which, with such a word, could doubt and inform the resident to such an address). But even more the chain would strain at the other end of the chain - those who decipher, prints, paint and carry it to the first person. But by the way, they could bring: the president has the right to know the truth, let the messenger sometimes hang. Although, with more probability, in the telegram of the ambassador, I imagine a non -parliamentary expression like a “treacherous position”. True, the telephone conversation of the first persons with the ambassadors rarely happens, but here nothing indicates him. In a sense, Putin, who very categorically condemned , and the resolution of 1973, and the bombing, and, partly, the official statements of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, supported the two squares of Chamov. But here we are already entering the holy of holies, to the bedroom to God, to the boudoir of the tandem. Let Kremlinologologists go there. I will dare the altar curtain and return to the place also sacred, but not so terrible - into the space of relations between two areas: old and Smolensk. The film “Two Tower” in the geopolitical saga “The Lord of the Rings” was already shown about this. The Foreign Ministry and the foreign policy of the Presidential Administration - these two equivalent families do not want to calm the bloodshell since the time when the second family was called the International Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Interior battles intensified under the late Gorbachev and after the 1991 revolution. Foreign Ministry is a hierarchical organization, estate, conservative. Here, in relations with countries, they prefer hereditary friendship and hereditary enmity. And a simple leadership idea: everything that enhances our potential geopolitical rivals weakens us. Regardless of how good the opponent’s good is, things are useful, high ideals are high. People from the Department of Foreign Policy and the Presidential Administration in general look condescendingly at the Midovites, postmen and correspondents. After all, they are under the august person: they know the weather forecast, where the wind will blow, where the monarch will direct the feet, and imagine themselves to be the center of real foreign policy decisions. Midovites, if they don’t like something, consider employees of the Office of Upgraffies and Snobs, as well as superficial people who do not get field practice, and therefore their decisions are superficial, jerky, short-sighted. Hence the dissonance mentioned in my last post, and, perhaps, polyphony in the game of our diplomatic piano: in his right hand - the party of fate, in the left - complaints about fate. “In Moscow, they regretted this armed action, undertaken with reference to the hastily adopted resolution of 1973 of the UN Security Council,” complains the left hand in the person of the representative of the Foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich . And the right hand in the person of President Medvedev answers the city (Putin) and the Ministry of Defense: “If today we try to beat himself with wings on the corps and say that we did not understand what we were doing, it would be wrong, we deliberately went to it. Everything that happens in Libya is associated with the ugly behavior that was carried out by the leadership of Libya. ” That is, the left hand does not know what makes the right one, but the right one knows exactly what it does. The Lavrov party, like the party of the whole Foreign Ministry, is closer to the left hand. Lavrov under Medvedev had long been awarded to resign: the new president-but he was engaged in foreign policy, as the prime minister’s spokesman confirmed us yesterday-has the right to choose a foreign minister to his liking. But the resignation was not accepted. However, now, in connection with Libya, other resignations have occurred in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, albeit calm and steppe compared to Libyan: for example , Deputy Minister Alexander Saltanov , who oversee the Middle Eastern direction. So if it comes to the second Medvedev term, it may reach the new minister.