Local diplomacy

I went off to register at the Embassy and to hear what they thought was going on.

The usual Embassy muddle: the form didn't have space for mobile numbers and they had to ring me up afterwards for my email address.

The information they had about the situation was 12 hours out of date, as if they hadn't seen BBC World this morning.

They thought the voluntary "warden" telephone tree used to inform people might not work as "people might have left".

It seems in case of an evacuation it will be through Armenia. Our Greek has been told the same. This seems to be a plan agreed at a meeting of all the embassies earlier in the week.

But nobody is expecting this to be necessary. I'm leaving for Lithuania next Thursday anyway, for a long weekend.

A new meeting of diplomats has been called this afternoon which everybody but the Russians have gone to.

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