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  • 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…

  • People

    Clifton R. Wharton, Sr.

    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…

  • Term

    Cable

    A written report exchanged between diplomatic missions, such as a consulate or an embassy, and the State Department.

  • Term

    Consul

    A consular officer of high rank, often at the First Secretary level, within an embassy.

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    Consul-general

    A consular officer of the highest rank; senior official at the consulate general.

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    Consulate General

    A larger consulate with greater importance that is presided over by a consul-general.

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    Colonization

    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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    Containment

    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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    Chancery

    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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    Chargé d'affaires

    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.