I know that countries governments communicate with each other using embassies, but how would a non-state actor make diplomatic communications with another country?
If an armed paramilitary group was emerging, and had decent enough manpower and support within the country it operated in (say, they were trying to overthrow the government) and needed weapons, how would they make contact with a foreign source willing to supply them, and how would the weapons arrive into the country from whatever foreign source was supplying them?
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If the rebel or paramilitary group is somehow already recognized as a government, it might even have some kind of semi-official representative to which a government can talk without too many issues.
Otherwise, it’s probably up to special forces or intelligence agencies (which in turn would likely have to get the OK from their own political authority… this kind of stuff is a big deal).
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