![]() “Chiefs of Mission are the president’s direct representatives overseas,” a spokesman for the department said. On Friday, the State Department dryly defended the new policy in a statement to Foreign Policy. In 2019, many US embassies defied or found a way around the new policy, something one anonymous diplomat called a “category one insurrection.” The ban came as a shock to US delegations, many of which had been raising the rainbow banner during Pride Month since 2011. “When it comes to the American flagpole, and American embassies, and capitals around the world, one American flag flies,” former vice president Mike Pence told NBC in defense of the policy. Mr Blinken’s predecessor, former secretary of state Mike Pompeo, had banned embassies from flying the Pride flag on the same pole as the national banner, but allowed them to display LGBTQ symbols in other areas. ![]() The memo did not make the display a requirement, however, and advised embassies to decide whether flying the rainbow was “appropriate in light of local conditions.”
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