It is a pleasure for me as well! Yes, that would be in fact me - partly.
Me and my old friend and business partner Derek Silverthorne regulate our little organization. I am mostly responsible for internal logistics to make sure everyone here is aided properly within our possibilities, stays in line and, as you already might have guessed, diplomatic matters for the time being. Sometimes it feels more like being a town mayor than an actual CEO of a profit-oriented organization. But - things have to be done.
The answer to your question is pretty simple. Your base administrator never offered to engage in diplomatic discussions to any of our pilots and therefore we never received the needed data to find and access your diplomatic communication channel with our limited - to say the least - technical possibilities. As one would expect your people did a very good job on staying under the radar for common folks like us.
After you provided the needed data to our pilot I wasted no time to contact you.
I also hope you will be delighted to hear that since I heard about your conversation with Ms. Ohara our pilots were instructed to not enter Liberty core space as a sign of good will and that we respect the sovereignty of the Lane Hackers within Liberty space, although as you might imagine we'd like to change that state as soon as possible.