The national flag should be on the left
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April 5, 2013 at 10:01pm
And this is the foreign ministry, for crying out loud. All together now: U EJJA, MHUX XORTA?
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L-aqwa li ghandna podium armat bis-subwoofers.
The woman on the left is actually the foreign minister’s niece, Vanessa Frazier. Well, hello Washington.
Hello indeed. Now do you understand why I wish we’d never been independent? We wouldn’t have jacked-up nieces living it up and doing sweet FA at our expense.
Gorg Vella ma nahsibx li jifhem hafna dwar il-protocol tal ‘flugs’
Ara kieku kienu bnadar tal-Germanja Nazista, naccertak li kien ikun jaf kif irid jqieghdhom.
But, doesn’t the Foreign Ministry house the Protocol Department? What happened to it?
Are this lot congenitally unable to address any sort of audience without using a podium as a prop?
Gvern tad-dilettanti
U ejja, mhux xorta.
You are mistaken, the flag should be on the right.
No, it should be on the left. That is the protocol with national flags of EU member states in respect of the EU flag.
Today Mr Matrenza wrote a pompous letter to the Times hoping to make his presence felt, thus enabling him to be reappointed as Maltese High Commissioner in UK, with the added perks of going on another shopping spree from Harrods to furnish his London apartment.
imma ser jibqa bil-ghatx ghax ghal Londra hemm Norman Hamilton lest bil-bagalji ppreparati.
Yes, he was scandalized at the looting of stationery from government offices. He never squeaked about the looting of the Maltese high commission in London including priceless Caruana Dingli watercolors. Wonder where they ended up.
Sorry, Willie Apap not Caruana Dingli.
In the US, the flag is flown on the right while foreign flags on the left. Do we follow the opposite protocol?
[Daphne – The EU flag is not a ‘foreign flag’. We are a member state of the European Union. The EU is not foreign to Malta. Malta is part of it. The protocol for displaying the flag of an EU member state with the EU flag is as described, and not as done by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which got it wrong. This is not Maltese protocol, but EU protocol.]
At Joseph Muscat’s Bagit2013 press conference the flag positions were reversed. I don’t think he’d take too kindly to being criticised by Mr Sharon Ellul Bonici.
That post has been promised to Norman and Josette Hamilton.
Washington then. Or one of the other holiday postings: Belgium, Paris, Rome.
Belgium is already promised to that relic of 80s Labour presenters, who can’t stammer a decent word in Maltese or English let alone administrative French. Le Palais du Roi will have a fit when he turns up to formally meet the Belgian sovereign.
Who? Norman Hamilton? Charles Xuereb?
Mur ara Josette kemm se taghmel xopping.
OMG will Norman still wear his gold bracelet at the Malta High Commission………very Del Boy