DIPLOMATIC missions in 110 places, Nato membership and close cooperation with Norway and Canada – this is how an independent Scotland should handle foreign policy, a new report claims. The Global Blueprint document also says a newly sovereign state should not join the Commonwealth, must have representatives across the United States and institute a new Scotland-United Kingdom Council to encourage bilateral cooperation between Edinburgh, London, Cardiff and Belfast. And it recommends that Scotland s ministry of foreign affairs should be called the Department of European and External Relations, to reflect its commitment to the European Union. Author Anthony Salmone, of political analysis firm European Merchants, says the 40,000-word paper – based on the premise that the country will rejoin the European Union – is broader and deeper than anything that s come before.