The `Amber Gateway' -- Picking Up Where the Hanseatic League Left Off

The Washington Post | November 5, 1997| | Copyright

Who said small countries cannot have big ideas? A lot depends on how well they can play the Washington circuit. Ambassadors who have glided to global glamour here are often influential at home and trusted conduits for new concepts shaping the world. So, Latvia's Ambassador Ojars Kalnins is trying his hand.

"In diplomacy you can move things along by launching intriguing ideas and then other embassies will report back to their governments," he said in an interview Monday. If it is a good idea, it will have a life of its own, he figures. If the Silk Road can still fuel the imagination of ...

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