Formal diplomatic notes were sent to the Afghan government expressing Ottawa's growing dissatisfaction, the documents show. (macleans.ca)
Consider, for instance, the leaked diplomatic notes (part of the WikiLeaks story) that revealed how unhappy Washington was in 2009 when Peter Kent, then Harper's minister of state for the Americas, failed to issue the ritual public condemnation of Cuba on a visit to Havana. (macleans.ca)
Nor, officials said, was Secretary of State Tillerson informed of the situation until days after the department's acting assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere affairs, Francisco Palmieri, finally called in the Cuban ambassador in Washington, José Ramón Cabañas, to present a diplomatic note of protest on Feb. 17. (businessinsider.com)