"Often it is convenient to leverage old arguments based on Colombia's past, but the Colombia of today is a different nation, and it is time for Colombia to receive a fresh assessment and recognition based on that reality," the embassy said.
Perhaps it should be organised in rotation, with a different nation of the former Britain occupying the site each year.
The electoral college is a constitutional relic of a fundamentally different nation, one with 13 states and a potential electorate of 2.5 million citizens, slashed dramatically by restrictions that limited the franchise to white, land-owning Protestant men.
The sounds of a dozen different nations and three world religions consorted in a richly believable utopia.
It hardly needs to be said that the United Kingdom of 2013 is a very different nation to that of 1953.
It is true that the United States of today is a much different nation than it was in 1918, with a larger, more mobile, and more complex society.
We could still make the sorts of changes climate change requires of us and become a very different nation without overwhelming pain.
Elsewhere China's Xu Quing, Australia's Brendan Hall, Belarus's Ihar Boki, USA's Justin Zook, Russia's Oxana Savchenko and Canada's Summer Mortimer helped add to the gaiety of a heartwarming number of different nations by swimming faster in their particular disciplines than any disabled athlete in the world before.
While the EBU said Australia's participation was a "one off" event, it did not rule out the notion of inviting a different guest nation each year in future contests.
