KENNAN: They don't really know, to tell the truth, what an ambassador is for.

Kennan, re Sweden or the US: 

They don't really know, to tell the truth, what an ambassador is for. 
Prosecutor needs jail in Africa for bringing this case.

The prosecutor argued that she had acted in violation of Swedish foreign policy by arranging the negotiations.

A Stockholm court has acquitted the Swedish ex-ambassador to China, who had been accused of going beyond her remit to have talks with a foreign power.

Anna Lindstedt had faced a possible jail term for brokering a meeting to secure the release of a Hong Kong bookseller jailed in China.

Chinese-Swedish Gui Minhai is serving a 10-year sentence for "illegally providing intelligence overseas".

He has written unflattering profiles of Chinese leaders.

The meeting brokered by Ambassador Lindstedt was between his daughter Angela Gui and two Chinese businessmen in January 2019.

Rejecting the charges, the district court decided that the ambassador had acted in line with her mission as ambassador. It added that the two businessmen at the meeting could not be considered to have represented a foreign power.

In court, Ms Lindstedt had said "it is unreal, not to say Kafkaesque to stand accused of crimes against national security".