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future Maltese diplomat Arvid Pardo was successively detained by Fascist Italian, Nazi German, and Soviet authorities between 1940 and 1945?
career US diplomat George Wadsworth, Chargé d'affaires in Italy at the onset of World War II, was one of the last American personnel to leave the country?
in 1883, former British diplomat Sir William Lane Booker became Consul-General of eleven US states?
the 3rd Viscount Buckmaster, grandson of the Liberal Party Lord Chancellor 1st Viscount Buckmaster, served as diplomat in the Middle East until 1981?
when British diplomat Sir Alan Campbell became ambassador to Ethiopia, he noticed people kneeling down in reverence as his car drove to the palace of Emperor Haile Selassie?
as a Squadron Leader in 1936, future diplomat Charles Eaton (pictured) was arrested and held for three days in Koepang, Dutch Timor, while undertaking a clandestine mission for the RAAF?
U.S. diplomat Pamela E. Bridgewater was the first African-American woman appointed Consul General in Durban, South Africa?
Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was indicted for the 1976 assassination of Spanish diplomat Carmelo Soria?
U.S. diplomat Norman Armour disguised himself as a Norwegian courier to help a Russian princess—his future wife—escape the country after the collapse of the Russian Empire?
Florence J. Harriman, an American socialite, suffragist, diplomat and author, was credited with arranging for the safe evacuation of members of the Norwegian royal family when Germany invaded Norway in 1940?
Guido di Tella was an Argentine businessman, academic and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Relations between 1991 and 1999?
U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen received the secret protocol to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which contained an understanding between Hitler and Stalin to split Central Europe, from German diplomat Hans von Herwarth?

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A Neimoidian diplomat

"I'm a member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan."

―Princess Leia Organa

A diplomat was someone involved in diplomacy, the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states. They were studious followers of politics and law. Some were devoted to free democracy. Others, like the Separitists senators, were more interested in their own needs. Jedi Master Adi Gallia's parents were noted Corellian diplomats.

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Diplomats

They key role of any given diplomat is to simply keep up relations with other species, planets, and systems. Since there is an amazingly vast amount of species in the Star Wars universe, their role is a vital one.

Each planet has at least one Senator, a form of diplomat that partakes in meetings with the galactic senate. in some cases, there may be two or more senators from any given planet, such as Padame Amidala and Jar-Jar Binks from Naboo.