An interlocutor is someone who informally explains the views of a
government
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.
In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government i ...
and also can relay messages back to a government.
Unlike a
spokesperson
A spokesperson, spokesman, or spokeswoman, is someone engaged or elected to speak on behalf of others.
Duties and function
In the present media-sensitive world, many organizations are increasingly likely to employ professionals who have receiv ...
, an interlocutor often has no formal position within a government or any formal authority to speak on its behalf, and even when they do, everything an interlocutor says is his own personal opinion and not the official view of anyone. Communications between interlocutors are often useful at conveying information and ideas. Often interlocutors will talk with each other before formal negotiations. Interlocutors play an extremely important role in
Sino-American relations.
Examples
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Narinder Nath Vohra
Narinder Nath Vohra (born 5May1936), popularly referred as N. N. Vohra, is a retired 1959batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Punjab cadre who was the 12thgovernor of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. He was the first civil ...
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Government of India's former Special Representative for carrying out the
Jammu and Kashmir Dialogue.
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Dineshwar Sharma,
Government of India's former Special Representative for carrying out the Jammu and Kashmir Dialogue.
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R. N. Ravi
Ravindra Narayana Ravi (born 3 April 1951) is an ex-IPS(29RR), 1976 batch an Indian politician and former bureaucrat serving as the current and 15th Governor of Tamil Nadu.
Ravi served as the 18th Governor of Nagaland from 1 August 2019 to 9 ...
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Government of India's former Special Representative for carrying out the
Nagaland Peace Accord
The Naga Peace Accord is a peace treaty, signed, on 3 August 2015, between the Government of India, and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN), to end the insurgency in the state of Nagaland in Northeast India. The Government’s int ...
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References
Political occupations
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