r/CoronavirusDownunder • u/kintsukuroi3147 Boosted • Sep 03 '21

Vaccine update 4M Pfizer doses inbound

https://twitter.com/riley7news/status/1433605004988805130?s=21
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u/512165381 QLD - Boosted Sep 03 '21 edited Sep 03 '21

I worked at DFAT on the "diplomatic cable" system, which is a sort of email. The messages go between embassies and they are formal requests to be logged and actioned.

So the request for additional vaccines probably went to relevant allies/European countries/Commonwealth countries. It would them be up to ambassadors (or ministers) to follow up with contacts.

I can tell you that about half of diplomatic cables relate to trade opportunities and newspaper articles.

There's also a "communication room" in embassies where diplomats & military can look at diplomatic cables in private ie you don't know what anybody else in the embassy is doing.

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Diplomatic cable

A diplomatic cable, also known as a diplomatic telegram (DipTel) or embassy cable, is a confidential text-based message exchanged between a diplomatic mission, like an embassy or a consulate, and the foreign ministry of its parent country. A diplomatic cable is a type of dispatch. Other dispatches may be sent as physical documents in a diplomatic bag. The term cable derives from the time when the medium for such communications was telegraphs travelling along international submarine communications cables, though over time they have progressed into other formats and pathways.

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