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La labor desconocida del diplomático
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The unknown work of the diplomat
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CARLSO FERNÁNDEZ-ARIAS and JAVIER GARCÍA-LARRECHE. Diplomats and members of the board of directors of the Association of Spanish Diplomats

an old one said establishes that the diplomacy, like the bank, done well is necessarily discreet; little friend of the pelotazos. This is thus, possibly in the daily work, but it does not have to happen that the diplomatic work finishes being críptica and stranger for the citizen.



From time to time it happens some international event or it is published in average the something that, brief and precise, attracts the attention of the public opinion, raises a brief debate on the outer service and shortly after it returns silence, and the diplomacy and the diplomats return to a bordering discretion in the forgetfulness; until the following crisis. Thus it has happened in the last weeks to the recent events suffered by the retained Spanish crew in Chad. The press has redoubled the critics against the foreign policy of the Government, but also, at least at a first moment, it has returned to use the rotten common places on the utility of the diplomats and its presumed lack of adjustment to the present world. For that reason the diplomats we think that the citizens must know our work better; because an informed affluent society is in better disposition to determine what wants of its outer service.



The members of the diplomatic Career happen to comprise of the same one after surpassing a demanding public process and is transparent that it guarantees the one that is chosen in agreement with the constitutional principles of merit and capacity: the opposition. Naturally, and although we are centered in the diplomats, exist other labor workers of the Outer Service, contracted civil employees and, who develop to a self-sacrificing and commendable work in the scope of their competitions and without which would be difficult to imagine our work.



The diplomats are first of all professional with a clear vocation on watch and a special enthusiasm by the work that carry out. The diplomatic task demands a total dedication that means in many cases familiar and personal sacrifices. Diplomat is civil employee arranged to fulfill his to have moving even to thousand of kilometers, without hardly previous warning, when its presence is required in a country that does not count on Embassy or resident Consulate, to help to Spanish fellow citizens with problems before the local authorities or to lend the corresponding diplomatic protection that mentions the Agreement of Vienna de Diplomatic Relaciones.



It is the case of the recent crisis of Chad, where three diplomatic civil employees were dispatched from the beginning of the crisis, being in that country to make the opportune managements until the Spanish citizens could return to Spain. In these situations, to the Spanish diplomats it hurts to us to read that our presence is the one of “mere comparsas”, like has been gotten to publish, pain who share without a doubt their families, who are themselves harmed by their absence during an indefinite time. It is necessary to indicate that, very just a short time after the received critics, the totality of the affected Spaniards could return to our country.



It, in spite of taking care of, sometimes just by two diplomats and personal reducing in the Embassy, territories that include thousand of square kilometers and several countries in communicated truely remote zones and bad.

A chilling but real example is enough: taking into account the political priority which they have had in this legislature the relations with Africa, which they have taken to a real and globally fruitful impulse of our relations with all the countries of the continent from the premises seated by the Africa Plan, it turns out however chocante to think that only five diplomats (including a the chief of a main directorate of the area) take care of the political relations of Spain with sub-Sahara Africa, whereas in Denmark they are thirteen, in Holland thirty, and of there for above?



The Spanish diplomats as soon as we today added more cash than at the beginning of the political transition, about 800 civil employees. The situation of Spain and the Spaniards in the world is well different. Today our country is one of the nine first emitters of investment in the world, the Spaniards travel more and more and to more and more remote places, we are the second European country in number of international adoptions, more than 1,500 Spanish prisoners they fulfill sentence in jails in the outside and Spain maintains open more than one hundred resident embassies and other so many consulates anywhere in the world. Consulates that, in 2006, among other many tasks, sent a million visas almost, near 1,400 registry inscriptions and more than 25,000 instruments public.



At sight of this, he is essential that the public opinion considers the following question “ Queremos really that Spain plays in the world the role that deserves? ”? , and, like consequence “ To what extent we are arranged to equip to the Outer Service of necessary means to it? ”

A reflection on this question would be very necessary. Because, and it is the last point that we will approach here, a strong and modern State enjoys, inescapably, of solid, non-political, competent and qualified institutions and bodies professional. He is one of the distinguishing criteria of the modern State and is a recurrent claim of the societies of our surroundings with greater formation and degree of freedom. As it said to a diplomat and writer, this time of was worth “if were not bodies, where the soul of the State would reside”.

Like servants of the State, the diplomats guarantee that this one and their citizens are represented and taken care of independently of the swings or the political thought of each stage or each person. His Majesty the King takes to decades demonstrating the useful thing already that a continued outer performance is for our country, and institutional than more partisan. By all means, the Government of every moment also executes the foreign policy and the Parliament contributes to elaborate it. But even thus, the electoral fact that the great lines of our operation outside of the area must be political of State, and not to be so put under as other matters the political swings or interests provokes an ample consensus.



Recently, the Cabinet gave the approval to a Code of Good Practices so that the appointments of the State in the scope of the culture govern by professional criteria and nonpoliticians. He himself criterion would have to prevail at the time of equipping with means, to support materially and to carry out the corresponding appointments when we spoke of an action of State that in addition is service to the citizenship and that to the professionals of the diplomacy we do not like that she becomes object of fight between parties. As our servants of the nation, we want that the Spanish society, one of the pluses outposts, free, generous and shared in common of the planet, is proud of its diplomacy. Also we like to think that we are contributing, a little more, to vertebrar that same nation.

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