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From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia A diplomatic mission is a group of people from one state or
an international inter-governmental organization (such as the United
Nations) present in another state to represent the sending
state/organization in the receiving state. In practice, a diplomatic mission
usually denotes the permanent mission, namely the office of a country's
diplomatic representatives in the capital city of another country.
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A permanent diplomatic mission is typically known as an embassy or chancery,
and the person in charge of the mission is known as an ambassador. The
ambassadorial residence is generally called the embassy. Some ambassadors
will live outside of the chancery. For example, the American ambassador to
Russia lives in a mansion known as Spaso House outside of the chancery.
All missions to the United Nations are known simply as permanent missions,
while missions to the European Union are known as permanent representations
and the head of such a mission is typically both a permanent representative
and an ambassador. European Union missions abroad are known as delegations.
Some countries have more particular naming for their missions and staff: a
Vatican mission is headed by a nuncio (Latin "envoy") and consequently known
as an apostolic nunciature. Libya's missions were for a long time known as
people's bureaux and the head of the mission was a secretary.
In the past a diplomatic mission headed by a lower-ranking official (an
envoy or minister resident) was known as a legation. Since the ranks of
envoy and minister resident are effectively obsolete, the designation of
legation is no longer used today. (See diplomatic rank.)
Missions between Commonwealth countries are known as high commissions and
their heads are high commissioners. This is due to the fact that an
ambassador is a representative that a head of state sends to another head of
state with an letter of credence (an accreditation letter); since the
Commonwealth realms share the same head of state, Elizabeth II of the United
Kingdom, it would be strange for the Monarch to accredit people to herself.
A consulate is similar to (but not the same as) a diplomatic office, but
with focus on dealing with individual persons and businesses, as defined by
the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. A consulate or consulate
general is generally a representative of the embassy in locales outside of
the capital city. For instance, the United Kingdom has its Embassy of the
United Kingdom in Washington, D.C., but also maintains seven
consulate-generals and four consulates. The person in charge of a consulate
or consulate-general is known as a consul or consul-general, respectively.
Similar services may also be provided at the embassy (to serve the region of
the capital) in what is sometimes called a consular section. |
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