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Myca’s president reacted negatively to your actions, so now the U.S. relationship with this important trading partner is strained.

Your relationship with the union leader is also strained because he thinks that you only care about the graphite.

The COVID-19 outbreak underscores the urgent need to get humanitarian aid to the displacement camps. This is being hindered by election-related protests. Sending COVID-19 vaccines as a goodwill gesture would help repair your relationship with the president. It might even persuade her to back down from her threat to fire the strikers and change her mind about elections.

Alternatively, the outbreak might motivate the president and the union leader to put aside their differences and compromise for the good of the nation.

U.S. Embassy to Myca
Office of the Ambassador

Your interactions with the union leader and the president have not gone well so far. Providing COVID-19 vaccines could help repair these relationships by demonstrating that the United States sincerely cares about the Mycan people. That might make the president more open to your other arguments. While such a gesture would undoubtedly be welcome, it’s less direct than bringing the two sides together.

However, there are no guarantees that a meeting between the two will have a positive outcome. The president and the union leader do not like each other personally. They exchanged many harsh words since the hurricane crisis began. Facilitating between them will require skill.

What will you do?