We meet Argentina's man in Paris and bring you a round-up of happenings in the world of diplomacy.

When representatives at the UN aren’t engaged at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, they’re relaxing at their very own swimming club. Monocle grabbed a towel and checked out this oasis of calm conversation.

An interview with the Swedish Navy defence attache in Washington, Qatar's position on Syria, and China and Japan put the spooks on each other on joint exercises.

We meet José Luís Robaína García, Cuba's ambassador to New Zealand, for the first on our new series on diplomacy. We also look at the "diplomatic pouch", that slightly quaint method of shipping secret documents.

We meet Timor-Leste's man in Australia and bring you more dispatches from the diplomatic world.

MONOCLE catches up with the US's main in the UAE and takes a peek inside Brazil's Kenyan embassy.

We meet Georgia’s ambassador to Germany and take a dip at the UN swimming club in Geneva.

An interview with the Geneva-based, football-playing Brazilian permanent representative to the WTO.

In his three decades of foreign service, the US ambassador to the UAE has learned that art can play a powerful part in diplomacy, communicating in a way that transcends culture and language.

We meet the Finnish ambassador to Italy and find out why Peru is setting up shop in the Middle East.

Germany's Federal Intelligence Service's, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), relocation to central Berlin, Iceland's debate over membership in the EU, and New Zealand's cuts to its Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

We meet ambassador Ido Aharoni, the Consul General of Israel to New York, and bring you the latest from the diplomatic world.

Pakistan says thank you with mangoes, Lithuania gets into a sticky spot over street names, and Monocle heads to Hanoi to meet the Palestinian ambassador to Vietnam.

The husband-and-wife double act at the Swiss embassy in Bangkok, plus the latest from the Sudan and US.

When Monocle published a lighthearted idea encouraging Brazil, Sweden and Turkey to work together, its message reached their capitals. We brought together the three foreign ministers for this issue’s round table series.

Germany's man in Belgrade, the new Greek embassy, and Japanese PM's diplomatic style.

The world goes cyber-war, Brazil prepares a new range of submarines and we met Washington's man in Yangon.