For those who are interested in what Sloan would have said at the meeting, check out the draft as it stood before the Embassy’s veto: “Crisis in transatlantic relations: what future will we choose?” US Embassy Denmark has taken to Twitter to defend its role in the cancellation of the event: The form of censorship by the US government is a dramatic change from past practice, when the US Public Diplomacy program provided a variety of American views to foreign audiences, in many ways demonstrating the strength of American democracy. Just days before the conference, the US Ambassador to Denmark, Carla Sands, ordered the Council to remove Sloan from the program. The conference was co-sponsored and heavily funded by the US Department of State. Sloan to give a keynote address at their conference celebrating NATO’s 70th anniversary on 10 December. The Danish Atlantic Council had invited Stanley R. Sloan has now released a brief statement about this debacle and also provided a link to the draft of the address he would have delivered at the event: The invited speaker Stanley Sloan ( srs2_) is a Visiting Scholar in Political Science at Middlebury College and a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Scowcroft Center of the Atlantic Council of the United States. Senate by voice vote in November 2017 (see PN1012). Sands is a political appointee, and one of Trump’s top donors. Ambassador to Denmark Carla Sands “did not want” the keynote speaker’s participation. The Danish Atlantic Council released a statement announcing the cancellation of its international conference on NATO and transatlantic cooperation after the U.S.

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