Practices
Conflict Diamonds
The Department of State, through the Office of Threat Finance Countermeasures, helps to coordinate the U.S. commitments to the Kimberley Process. Through its commitment to upholding the…
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Practices
The Department of State, through the Office of Threat Finance Countermeasures, helps to coordinate the U.S. commitments to the Kimberley Process. Through its commitment to upholding the…
People
Death April 25, 1990 Recognition/Achievement First African American Foreign Service Officer to become an Ambassador Role/Rank Ambassador Biography Clifton Wharton earned a master of law…
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A written report exchanged between diplomatic missions, such as a consulate or an embassy, and the State Department.
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A consular officer of high rank, often at the First Secretary level, within an embassy.
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A consular officer of the highest rank; senior official at the consulate general.
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A larger consulate with greater importance that is presided over by a consul-general.
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The act of one country settling and establishing control of another country and then occupying it by settlers from the colonizing country.
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The basic strategy of containing Soviet power during the Cold War. This policy would "promote tendencies which must eventually find their outlet in either the break-up or the gradual mellowing of Soviet power." George Kennan, an American diplomat for the Department of State in the mid-1950s, is credited for conceiving this idea.
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The office space where the Chief of Mission and his staff work. This office is sometimes called the embassy, but, technically, the embassy refers to the diplomatic delegation itself.
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Formerly, a chargé d'affaires was the title of a chief of mission, inferior in rank to an ambassador or a minister. It is still used as the title of the head of a US mission where the US and other nation do not have full diplomatic relations. Today with the a.i. (ad interim) added, it designates the senior officer taking charge for the interval when a chief of mission is absent from his/her post or the position is vacant.