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After the UDI, Rhodesia maintained several overseas missions, including [[Pretoria]],<ref>{{cite book|author=Harry R. Strack|title=Sanctions: The Case of Rhodesia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZVt0AAAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Syracuse University Press|isbn=978-0-8156-2161-4|page=52}}</ref> and until 1975, [[Lisbon]] in Portugal and [[Lourenço Marques]] (now [[Maputo]]) in [[Mozambique]].<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Z4tAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=76QMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4898%2C44571 Rhodesians to quit Lisbon] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160727020846/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Z4tAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=76QMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4898%2C44571 |date=27 July 2016 }}, ''[[Glasgow Herald]]'', 1 May 1975, page 4</ref>
Since 1961, Rhodesia had an "Accredited Diplomatic Representative" with [[South Africa]], heading a "Rhodesian Diplomatic Mission" or [[de facto embassy|''de facto'' embassy]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Report of the Secretary for Information, Immigration, and Tourism|url=https://books.google.
During 1965, the government of Rhodesia made moves to establish a [[Rhodesian mission in Lisbon|mission in Lisbon]] separate from the British Embassy, with its own accredited representative, having previously been able to establish its own consulate in Lourenço Marques, capital of [[Portuguese Mozambique]].<ref>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/41731/supplement/3745/data.pdf John Arthur KINSEY, Esq., Consul-General for the Federation at Lourenco Marques] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315030058/https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/41731/supplement/3745/data.pdf |date=15 March 2016 }}, [[London Gazette]], 5 June 1959</ref> This prompted protests from the British government, which was determined that the representative, Harry Reedman, should be a nominal member of the British Ambassador's staff.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fWxAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iKMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2768,3715462&hl=en Rhodesia's Man in Lisbon: Objective Said To Be Achieved] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307211051/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fWxAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iKMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2768,3715462&hl=en |date=7 March 2016 }}, ''[[The Glasgow Herald]]'', 22 September 1965. page 9</ref> For their part, the Portuguese authorities sought a compromise whereby they would accept Reedman as an independent representative but deny him diplomatic status.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Kent Fedorowich|author2=Martin Thomas|title=International Diplomacy and Colonial Retreat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ccm1AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA186|year=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-26866-4|page=186}}</ref>
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