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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Irrelevant what the average person in the UK understands about the former political alignment of Yugoslavia. But it is important for a foreign secretary to know or be briefed on such things when dealing with a successor nation.
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But that relies on the knowledge of the civil servants doing the briefing. My knowledge came from a one-off encounter with the company looking to supply the missile systems back in the 1980s.