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Volunteer Diplomats Introduce Kansas And Missouri To The World

Honorary consuls are essentially volunteer diplomats. "You're representing the country and promoting the country when possible," Lebert Shultz told KCUR's Central Standard guest-host Brian Ellison. Shultz is the honorary consul of South Africa to Kansas and Missouri. Born in New York, he moved to the Midwest in 1960.