title: Takeshi Yasukawa
Serbian cuisine
Toshikazu Kase
Pevchesky Bridge
Hermann Neubacher
Albanian Kingdom (1943–44)
KosovaLive
Paavo Rantanen
Mikhail Smirnovsky
Bodø affair
sentences: Takeshi Yasukawa (安川壮) (1914-2000) was a Japanese career diplomat.
 He entered the Foreign Ministry in 1939.
 In 1952 he was appointed Consul General of Japan in Vancouver, British Columbia and re-opened the consulate after the interruption of World War II.
 In 1965 he became director general of the North American affairs bureau of the Japanese foreign ministry.
 After serving as Ambassador to the Philippines, and deputy foreign minister, he became Ambassador to the United States in 1973 in which position he served until 1976.
 From 1978 to 1980 he served as Japan's trade negotiator under Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira.
Serbian cuisine (Serbian: српска кухиња / srpska kuhinja ) is the traditional cuisine of the Balkan country Serbia, sharing characteristics with the rest of the Balkan nations (especially former Yugoslavia).
Toshikazu Kase (加瀬 俊一 , Kase Toshikazu , 12 January 1903 – 21 May 2004) was a Japanese civil servant and career diplomat.
 During World War II he was a high-ranking Foreign Ministry official.
 Hideaki Kase is his son and Yoko Ono is his niece.
The Pevchesky Bridge (Russian: Пе́вческий мост ; literally Singers' Bridge), also known as the Choristers' Bridge or Yellow Bridge (Жёлтый Мост, Zholtyi Most), is a single-span bridge across the Moika River in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
 The bridge is a part of the Palace Square.
 The length of the bridge is 21 metres, and the width is 72 metres.
 It is the third-widest bridge in Saint Petersburg, after the Blue Bridge and Kazansky Bridge.
 Before the February Revolution, the term "Choristers’ Bridge" was shorthand for the tsarist foreign ministry, just as the French foreign ministry is known as the Quai d'Orsay.
Hermann Neubacher (June 24, 1893 – July 1, 1960) was an Austrian Nazi politician who held a number of diplomatic posts in the Third Reich.
 During the Second World War, he was appointed as the leading German foreign ministry official for the Balkans (including Greece, Serbia, Albania and Montenegro).
The Albanian Kingdom (Albanian: "Mbretëria Shqiptare", German: "Königreich Albanien") existed as a "de jure" independent country, between 1943 and 1944.
 Before the armistice between Italy and the Allied armed forces on 8 September 1943, Albania had been in a de jure personal union with and was de facto under the control of the Kingdom of Italy.
 After the armistice and the Italian exit from the Axis, German military forces entered Albania and it came under German influence.
KosovaLive was founded in 2000 at the time when there was a growing need for an independent news agency that would be serving the flourishing media scene in Kosovo.
 Initially established as a non-governmental organization, it came to light with the initiative and support of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and start-up grant provided by a consortium of donors, among which Swiss Foreign Ministry, OSI, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through IREX, German Foreign Ministry and Press Now, just to mention the most prominent ones.
 For years, the internet based news agency KosovaLive served as the main source of information for most of the leading daily newspapers and broadcasters, as well as local and international governmental and non-governmental institutions/organizations working in Kosovo.
 In its second years of existence, turned into a subscription only internet based news agency, while continuing to be one of the most trusted and most widely used independent news sources.KosovaLive today is a much larger organization than at its start.
 KosovaLive NGO, which continues its media related activities within its non-governmental organization mandate, has given birth to KosovaLive Media Group, which in turn houses two entities.
 The first being Kosovalive 360, which is increasing its status of one of the Kosovo's most reliable news portals, and SociaLive, which provides ever increasing up to date advertising and social media markeeting.
Paavo Rantanen (born 28 February 1934) is a Finnish former Foreign Ministry official, who was briefly the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Mikhail Nikolayevich Smirnovsky was a Soviet diplomat and a specialist in Soviet relations with English-speaking countries.
 He was first secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Washington DC in 1953, and served a second time in Washington as the minister-counselor and second-ranking officer of the Embassy at the beginning of the 1960s.
 Around 1963 Smirnovsky returned to the Foreign Ministry in Moscow, where he was chief of the USA section of the Ministry.
 In 1966 he became Soviet Ambassador to the United Kingdom (with concurrent accreditation in Malta starting in 1967), where he served until 1973.
 It is believed that he was later, in Moscow, a member of the Foreign Ministry's Collegium, understood to have been an advisory group of senior officers.
 He was a player in US-Soviet relations at critical times, including the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
 Smirnovsky was viewed by American colleagues as an efficient, businesslike diplomat who, in contrast to many other Soviet officials, eschewed rudeness and avoided unnecessary exaggeration.
The Bodø affair was a diplomatic scandal involving Sweden-Norway (then a dual monarchy) and the United Kingdom, which lasted from 1818 to 1821.
 The affair arose over the illegal trading activities of an English company in the Norwegian port of Bodø, where Norwegian officials in 1818 seized a large cargo belonging to the company and arrested one of its owners, who later escaped.
 The Stockholm foreign ministry, which handled the foreign affairs of Norway at that time, seemed unreasonably favorable to British claims over the Bodø incident, thereby angering Norwegians and arousing their nationalism.
 In 1821 compensation was paid to the British company over Norwegian objections.
 While of minor importance in itself, the incident led to a lasting distrust among Norwegians of the Swedish foreign ministry.

Question: Question: Which country entered an armistice in 1943 with the Balkan country which Hermann Neubacher served as a foreign ministry official of? 

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 Serbian cuisine (Serbian: српска кухиња / srpska kuhinja ) is the traditional cuisine of the Balkan country Serbia, sharing characteristics with the rest of the Balkan nations (especially former Yugoslavia). 

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 Toshikazu Kase (加瀬 俊一 , Kase Toshikazu , 12 January 1903 – 21 May 2004) was a Japanese civil servant and career diplomat.
 During World War II he was a high-ranking Foreign Ministry official.
 Hideaki Kase is his son and Yoko Ono is his niece. 

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 Hermann Neubacher (June 24, 1893 – July 1, 1960) was an Austrian Nazi politician who held a number of diplomatic posts in the Third Reich.
 During the Second World War, he was appointed as the leading German foreign ministry official for the Balkans (including Greece, Serbia, Albania and Montenegro). 

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 The Albanian Kingdom (Albanian: "Mbretëria Shqiptare", German: "Königreich Albanien") existed as a "de jure" independent country, between 1943 and 1944.
 Before the armistice between Italy and the Allied armed forces on 8 September 1943, Albania had been in a de jure personal union with and was de facto under the control of the Kingdom of Italy.
 After the armistice and the Italian exit from the Axis, German military forces entered Albania and it came under German influence. 

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 KosovaLive was founded in 2000 at the time when there was a growing need for an independent news agency that would be serving the flourishing media scene in Kosovo.
 Initially established as a non-governmental organization, it came to light with the initiative and support of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and start-up grant provided by a consortium of donors, among which Swiss Foreign Ministry, OSI, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through IREX, German Foreign Ministry and Press Now, just to mention the most prominent ones.
 For years, the internet based news agency KosovaLive served as the main source of information for most of the leading daily newspapers and broadcasters, as well as local and international governmental and non-governmental institutions/organizations working in Kosovo.
 In its second years of existence, turned into a subscription only internet based news agency, while continuing to be one of the most trusted and most widely used independent news sources.KosovaLive today is a much larger organization than at its start.
 KosovaLive NGO, which continues its media related activities within its non-governmental organization mandate, has given birth to KosovaLive Media Group, which in turn houses two entities.
 The first being Kosovalive 360, which is increasing its status of one of the Kosovo's most reliable news portals, and SociaLive, which provides ever increasing up to date advertising and social media markeeting. 

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 Paavo Rantanen (born 28 February 1934) is a Finnish former Foreign Ministry official, who was briefly the Minister for Foreign Affairs. 

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 Mikhail Nikolayevich Smirnovsky was a Soviet diplomat and a specialist in Soviet relations with English-speaking countries.
 He was first secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Washington DC in 1953, and served a second time in Washington as the minister-counselor and second-ranking officer of the Embassy at the beginning of the 1960s.
 Around 1963 Smirnovsky returned to the Foreign Ministry in Moscow, where he was chief of the USA section of the Ministry.
 In 1966 he became Soviet Ambassador to the United Kingdom (with concurrent accreditation in Malta starting in 1967), where he served until 1973.
 It is believed that he was later, in Moscow, a member of the Foreign Ministry's Collegium, understood to have been an advisory group of senior officers.
 He was a player in US-Soviet relations at critical times, including the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
 Smirnovsky was viewed by American colleagues as an efficient, businesslike diplomat who, in contrast to many other Soviet officials, eschewed rudeness and avoided unnecessary exaggeration. 

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 The Bodø affair was a diplomatic scandal involving Sweden-Norway (then a dual monarchy) and the United Kingdom, which lasted from 1818 to 1821.
 The affair arose over the illegal trading activities of an English company in the Norwegian port of Bodø, where Norwegian officials in 1818 seized a large cargo belonging to the company and arrested one of its owners, who later escaped.
 The Stockholm foreign ministry, which handled the foreign affairs of Norway at that time, seemed unreasonably favorable to British claims over the Bodø incident, thereby angering Norwegians and arousing their nationalism.
 In 1821 compensation was paid to the British company over Norwegian objections.
 While of minor importance in itself, the incident led to a lasting distrust among Norwegians of the Swedish foreign ministry. 

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Answer: Italy