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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.
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Usually called an ambassador, this is the ranking officer in an embassy or permanent mission and the personal representative of the head of state of his/her nation.
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The act of one country settling and establishing control of another country, typically a distant one, and then occupied by settlers from that country
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A brief public summary statement issued following important bilateral or multilateral meetings.
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An effort to achieve agreement and, it is hoped, increased goodwill between two opposed parties.
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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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An office that is part of an embassy or established by one nation in an important city of another nation for the purpose of supporting and protecting its citizens traveling or residing there. In addition, these offices are charged with performing other important duties such as issuing visas (where this is required) to host country nationals wishing to travel to the country the consulate represents. All consulates, whether located in the capital city or in other communities, are administratively under the ambassador and the embassy.
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A larger consulate with greater importance that is presided over by a consul-general.
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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.