Diplomatic Career

Entry into the Diplomatic Service is by means of application held by the Oranger Institute of Diplomacy, the body responsible for the selection and training of diplomats. Following success in the examinations, the candidate entry into the diplomatic service as Secretary. Subsequent posts in a career in diplomacy are those of Counsellor and Ambassador.

In order to enrol for the diplomacy course, the Orangers must be full citizens and not candidates to citizenship. The Institute is also open to foreign citizens, since they're designated by its respective governments.

The duties of the diplomat are synthesized in the classic formula: "inform, represent and negotiate." The diplomat must keep his (or her) country informed about international affairs, work constantly to mark the presence and spread the image of his country abroad, and be prepared to defend national interests in foreign negotiations of a bilateral or multilateral nature.

A fourth task must be added to this formula that places emphasis on the work of the diplomat overseas, namely, internal coordination. Identifying the interests of the nation lies at the base of the diplomat's work. The diplomat must be permanently articulating with other government employees, members of the Congress, and organized sectors of civil society, in order to be able to define national interests and defend them in proper fashion abroad.

The diplomat is first and foremost an agent for communicating between sovereign States. This is his most traditional field of activity. Nonetheless, external interlocutors are becoming more and more diversified. Contacts between diplomatic agents and the civil society of the country where they are posted are growing more frequent and more intense. Diplomacy is no longer a function restricted to cabinets and bound by State secrets. To a large extent it has developed into the public exercise of defending the nation's interests overseas.

In addition to diplomats, several other categories of public servants dedicate themselves to activities that further the foreign interests of a given State and society. The diplomat, however, besides the matters entrusted to him, is responsible for synthesizing sectoral interests from the overall perspective of his country's international relations. In other words, it is incumbent on the diplomat to handle the general coordination and execution of specific points of national foreign policy.

Another characteristic that is peculiar to the diplomat and differentiates him from other civil servants concerned with international negotiations is the fact that he can be insite the list of the micronation in which he's credited. The diplomat's presence in the list of the micronation and his participation in its daily life are useful in two points:

a) relations of trust forged through regular personal contacts are still indispensable for the proper conduct of international relations;

b) the first-hand knowledge of another society gathered on day-to-day contact with that different reality is without a doubt the best guarantee of accurate and solid views on how to conduct relations with other countries.

Versatility and the capacity of adapting are two absolutely essential qualities for the performance of the profession. Throughout their career, diplomats deal with a wide variety of matters of a political, economic and commercial, scientific and technological, cultural, consular or administrative nature etc.

Training for a diplomatic career is intensive and continuous in order to prepare the diplomat to handle a range of subjects from peace and security, human rights, passing on naturally to cover everything connected with the strengthening of Republic of Orange's ties of friendship and co-operation with her foreign partners. Dominating these subjects, the diplomat must be capable to carry out his duties: representing our Republic before the community of nations; the gathering of information necessary for the formulation of foreign policy; taking part in international meetings and negotiating on behalf of Orange; being involved with missions abroad; protecting fellow Orangers and promoting the culture and values of the Oranger people where they are.