Your Nation's Diplomatic Awkward Monents

[The King of Threads]

Not sure this was the right forum but for now here is where she shall stand!

So, has your nation ever experienced an "awkward" moment while conducting diplomacy with another nation?

What I mean is this: Nation A hosts a summit with nations B and C; B and C dont know that their mortal enemy (the other one) is coming...The leaders walk at the same time into the room with the cameras alrady running...Then there is awkward silence...

This example sucked but hopefully you get what I mean by "Diplomatic Awkward Moments"...

[Thurask]

One time when a nation (name removed, but you can guess who it was) declared that they had sunk a cruise ship belonging to Thurask. However, further investigation revealed that no such cruise ship existed, so at the conference over what to deal with that nation's transgressions, our government men were watching while banging their heads against the desk seeing the nation explain "what happened" with the mythical cruise ship.

[East Fancainia]

*In a council regarding the genocide of the Armeridian population of North Jarask*

*Some one farts*
East Fancainian Delegate: Uck! It smells like an Armeridian!
*Room falls silent*

[Seculartopia]

When the Ambassador to Maraque shook hands with a top ranking Maraquean official.

[Fatatatutti]

We only have one mortal enemy that we know of. (They consider us an enemy but we have nothing against them.) However, Fatatatutians in general are not very diplomatic. Our former Foreign Minister, Harlan Escrow, has a habit of calling foreigners "bastards", which is not always appreciated. Before Gen. Castro-Stalina returned to active duty, she was sent on several diplomatic missions which usually ended in shouting matches, though there were no serious injuries. Current Defense Minister Harmony Chang has also been on several diplomatic missions that were less than cordial.

In essence, you could consider Fatatatutti a diplomatically awkward nation. That's why we have very few embassies.

-- Carmen "Shimmy" Dykstra, acting Minister of Foreign Affairs

[Maraque]

When the Ambassador to Maraque shook hands with a top ranking Maraquean official.

You could hear a pin drop.

[Seperate Vermont]

When a very embarrassed Representative had to dig through a pile of papers for a list of 14 departments within Vermont.

[Rupudska]

After gorging herself on some extra-spicy chili while in The Desu Republic of New North Point (A Belkan nation, no longer exists), our queen suffered from some... unpleasant gas problems.

[Kyuria]

We have an awkward moment everytime somone meets our leader. Imagine going to some meeting or summit to find the guy your suposed to be talking to you is insane and speaks "lke t3xt ta1k ands spin ar0nd 1n sp1ny charz."

Imagine being locked in a room with them for hours during one of these!!!

[The Coiled God]

A nearby nation once sent a princess to be wedded to our High Priestess. As is customary for brides of the High Priestess, we cut her heart from her still-beating chest and consigned it to the Emissaries of God, in order to ensure that she would live forever as a Saint of the Coiled God. Only afterwards did we discover that they hadn't expected us to sacrifice her at all! Boy, were our faces red! (With blood!)

[Sesseter]

Every time a new diplomat is introduced to the Chancellor.

She doesn't have the greatest social skills.

[The Matthew Islands]

When the King had a slight "altercation" with a Female diplomat at a party where he got a little merry. All charges were dropped though. Hard to fight a court case from the Island Prison in our colony of Flitwik...

[Spartinth]

When an ambassador from BLANK attended the crowning of King Charles I. The ambassador accidentally walked onto the stage just as the priest put the crown on Charles's head.

[Saurisia]

We've never had an awkward diplomatic moment (thankfully).

[Tipidemica]

The "leader" of Tipidemica was caught wearing a clean tuxedo at a regional summit.

[Victorious Decepticons]

When one of our high-ranking Generals attended a tour of another nation. To our surprise, a representative from a third place was also present. This representative turned out to be a rather insulting biological supremacist.

It was just a matter of time before our Decepticon-supremacist General blasted that being into a smoldering carcass and threatened its mate with the same, bringing the "peaceful" tour to an abrupt end.

[Letumius]

So far our only awkward moment has been when one of our Ambassador's visited a neighboring nation for a trade agreement. He came back with the country's Emperor's entire fortune . Not that that was the embarrassing part. It was embarrassing when we were forced to give it back due to a typo in the agreement.

[North Defese]

The Transnappian President thing gave the thumbs up sign to the Chancellors wife while she was on a diplomatic visit, a sign of vulgar obscenity.
The Guardsmen with her inside the limo almost stabbed the man, and had to be physically restrained by the First Lady.

[The Merchant Republics]

Well Ambassadors from the Merchant Republics are often faced with the awkward explanation for our frequent involvement in smuggling and black markets, but perhaps the most exemplary case of this was the one in which a particular ambassador to a theocratic state which banned alcohol held a meeting with several influential members of the Ecclesiastics concerning our smuggling and quite absent-mindedly offered the visitors a glass of smuggled brandy. In a panic he tossed the bottle over his head back on the wall smashing a rather important religious symbol off of his wall.

[Domanator]

We often find that diplomats come to our city-state for the first time without being told prior what we're about.

The looks on their faces are priceless.

[Nazi Flower Power]

What is this "diplomacy" you speak of?

[Stuffed Taxidermists]

When they hear our name and see our flag is always awkward.

[Sciox]

One of our previous Presidents (Who was married at the time) was having an affair with the wife of the President of (Censored). The President took her to his beach house for a weekend away but when he got there he found his wife in bed with the President of (Censored).

The legal proceedings, to say the least, were not pretty.

[Arranfirangia]

Arranfirangian: Hello. We are gathered here on regards of the genocide of homosexuals in <undisclosed country A>. I, myself, am a homosexual and I am appaled at this.
<undisclosed theocracy>: What does that? You are... umm...well, murder cannot be held for, but *mutters* fags..., why...?
Arranfirangian: Yes, this bigotry is horrible.
<undisclosed US-esque nation>: *whispers to <undisclosed theocracy>* My god, is he checking me out...yuck...
Arranfirangian: What?
<undisclosed theocracy>: Sigh, I think that sex should exist between just a man and a woman, *whispers to <undisclosed US-esque nation>* there, I said it. Also, why is he...
Arranfirangian: What is wrong with two hot muscley men passionately defying the status quo and laying...umm, where was I?
<undisclosed US-esque nation>: Wow...
Arranfirangian: Wait, why are there homophobes at an anti-"homosexual genocide" nation meeting?
<undisclosed theocracy>: This is the meeting for the "anti homosexual" genocide meeting.
Arranfirangia: Oops...

[Albion Rhodesia]

Excerpt from: “Albion Rhodesian Diplomatic Incidents”

In 1982 Her Majesty’s Albion Rhodesian Fisheries Protection Vessel Bastet, accidentally fired upon an Argentine freighter, which was believed to be a trawler, illegally fishing in Albion Rhodesian waters. Due to the Falklands conflict at the time of the incident, the Argentine Government did not respond militarily, but instead issued a rather tepid condemnation.