Ambiguity is useful for diplomatic undertakings when... --- ...your country or international organization is just at the point of beginning having exploratory conversations and want to keep itself open to several alternative courses of action without commiting itself (or a counterpart) to a specific position regarding a bilateral or multilateral issue and wishes to avoid precluding alternatives for potential agreements to be negotiated.

An example: We are in favor of stoping climate change but we are not sure if we can commit ourselves right at this point on new more specific ambitious CDCs for 2025 regarding the proportion of electricity generated using solar or wind energy in electric power plants inside the national energy matrix (we want to remain open to chose -if possible- to increase instead the share of hydro power). So if we keep communicating with CONSTRUCTIVE AMBIGUITY we can EXTEND OUR TIME FRAME for our own decision-making-process (or the one of our counterpart) BUYING TIME and avoiding pressuress to commit to a specific position right now, so the final decision is move on to once we have enough information to make the analysis required to decide going under a specific path of action and beging negotiations with our counterpart to make it possible.

Source author: Eric Suzán Reed esuzan@sre.gob.mx