700 Reasons: Reason #224

Reason: 224
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office tries as far as possible to operate in the official language or languages of the countries in which the British Government is officially represented. This currently means some 80 languages
Reference:
Davies, V. (2003) 'Tools of diplomacy: the language policy of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and what it means for higher education' in Head, D. et al. Setting the Agenda for Languages in Higher Education (London: CILT), pp.43-59
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Employability, International relations, UK