On Friday , R. Nicholas Burns , under secretary of state for political affairs , said the Dubai office was created in the spirit of the Riga station in Latvia , which became a critical source of knowledge about the Soviet Union at a time when the United States did not have diplomatic relations with Moscow . ''
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