Thank you. I’m refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view but that is enough about society pages :-)

Daphne, you are not an ambassador. I like to know who is ambassador to which country and his face from the photo we saw now did not seem familiar.

[Daphne – How many ambassadors do you see in the society pages, compared to the number accredited to Malta? And what’s with the society pages/ambassadors fascination, anyway? Are you a woman, or are you one type of gay man?]

“As a fond peruser of the society pages” I don’t mind the digs at my masculinity or whatever this was meant to be :-)

[Daphne – See above. We’ll be discussing the royal wedding next, I assume (I don’t mind at all).]

[Daphne – You never see mine either, dery, or those of the hundreds and sometimes thousands of people who are there. As a fond peruser of the society pages, you will notice that it’s always the same 20 or so people who are featured. This does not mean that only 20 people go to parties. Not only does he go to parties, but he throws a big one every year to celebrate the anniversary of the glorious revolution in September – no alcohol, and still people go. I am invited every year, but went just once, in 2001 – I remember the year because the party was held a day after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre and the atmosphere at the party was weird because you could tell people were thinking Gaddafi did it – and I never went again. I like Libya, always had a good relationship at a ‘people level’ and even at an embassy level with this man’s predecessors but felt awkward celebrating the revolution and decided it was against my principles and conscience.]

ReDoute, Min hu ‘Paris’?

Mhux hemm qeghda z-zejza.

Malta’s ambassadors represent a democracy, not a dictatorship.

Remember that irrispective of the fact that the Talibans and Sadam Hussein were removed from power there is still no peace in Afganistan and Iraq and innocent people are still being butchered in those regions.

Let’s hope that the same will not happen to our Libyan friends.

[Daphne – The situation is not comparable.]

AND

Amsterdam
Tunis
Connecticut
Seattle
Toronto
Winnipeg
Vancouver
Windsor (Canada)
Edmonton
San Franciso
Victoria (Australia)
Sfax (Tunisia)
Los Angeles
Sacramento
Orlando
Birmingham
Texas
New York
Nova Scotia
Algiers
Minneapolis
Alexandria
Berlin
Bonn
Athens
Beirut
Rabat (Morocco)
Melbourne
Montreal
Brussels
Amman
Rome
Atlanta
Denver
Chicago
Boston

The results of a 2-minute search:

Geneva
Washington
Ottawa
Minnesota
London
Manchester
Cairo – Tahrir square
Cairo – Zamalek
Paris

Imagine if a Maltese ambassador serving abroad, decides to replace the Maltese flag because of a throng of protesters who demonstrate against say, the use of our port by foreign powers in order to evacuate workers from Libya.

The green flag is Libya’s identification world-wide until such a time as a new legitimate and internationally recognized government decides to replace the current one.