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Chargé d'affaires

For example, Saudi Arabia and Thailand have not exchanged ambassadors since 1989, due to the still-unresolved Blue Diamond Affair.


Alison Broinowski

1988 - Chargé d'Affaires with the Australian Embassy in Amman, Jordan, and Research Associate with the Korean Research Foundation and Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea

Andrey Fedorovich Budberg

In 1845 he was joined the Russian embassy at the German Bundestag in Frankfurt, becoming chargé d'affaires there in 1848.

Antoine Philippe, Duke of Montpensier

Antoine never saw his child; on 13 fructidor year IV (30 August 1796), the French Directory decided to exile him to Philadelphia, where the French Republic's charge-d'-affaires in the United States of America granted him an annual pension of 15,000 francs.

Barbara J. Stephenson

Barbara J. Stephenson is the Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in London, and is acting as Charge d'Affaires following the departure of Ambassador Louis Susman.

Combats littéraires

Even if certain articles by the author of Les affaires sont les affaires (Business is business) bestow praise on Émile Zola, toward whom Mirbeau was not otherwise so kindly disposed, and on Edmond de Goncourt, they evidence an esthetic that is overtly hostile to naturalism, considered by Mirbeau to be one of the century’s gravest errors in matters of art.

Donald Lu

Before he was appointed Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, he served as the Chargé d'affaires and Deputy Chief of Mission for United States Ambassador to Azerbaijan from July 4, 2009 through July 2010, when the office of the Ambassador to Azerbaijan had not been filled yet.

Donald R. Norland

He was later deputy chief of mission and chargé d'affaires at in Conakry, Guinea.

E. Allan Wendt

On August 25, 1992, Wendt became the chargé d'affaires ad interim at the newly established U.S. Embassy in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

E. G. Squier

He was appointed special chargé d'affaires to all the Central American states in 1849, and negotiated treaties with Nicaragua, Honduras, and San Salvador.

Edward P. Brynn

Brynn served as chargé d'Affaires ad interim to Mauritania from July 1982 to February 1983 and chargé d'Affaires ad interim to the Gambia from May 1984 to June 1984 before he was the United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso (1991–1993) and Ghana (1995–1998).

Embassy of the United Kingdom, Pyongyang

James Hoare was chargé d'affaires from 2001-2002 until a permanent ambassador was appointed by the British government.

Foreign relations of Kenya

The embassy in Nairobi was established 12 December 1963—Kenya's independence day—with Laurence C. Vass as chargé d'affaires ad interim pending the appointment of an ambassador.

George Glynn Petre

He moved to Hanover in 1952, Paris in 1853, The Hague in 1855 and Naples in 1856, where he was chargé d'affaires from July 1856 when the ambassador, Sir William Temple, left due to illness, until October of that year when diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies were broken off.

George Roberts Andrews

He was political officer in Stockholm from 1964–1967, chief of the political section in Dakar (1967–1970), chargé d'affaires in Conakry (1970), and consul general in Strasbourg (1970–1971).

Ivar Lunde

From 1946 to 1949 he was an assistant secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before spending three years as a counsellor at the Norwegian United Nations embassy, legation counsellor and chargé d'affaires in Athens and Tel Aviv.

James Colquhoun

In 1827 he became the consul-general in England representing King Anton of Saxony, and in 1848, he was appointed by Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg to be his chargé d'Affaires in London.

James Creagan

Following his ambassadorship in Honduras, Ambassador Creagan was asked to serve as a special Chargé d'Affaires in La Paz, Bolivia, during the summer of 2009.

James P. Zumwalt

When Barack Obama became the President and the former US Ambassador to Japan Tom Schieffer resigned, James worked as the chargé d'affaires ad interim from January 15, 2009 until August 20, 2009 when the next Ambassador John Roos presented his credentials to Emperor Akihito.

John James Appleton

During President Monroe's administration he was appointed secretary of legation at Brazil, and afterward chargé d'affaires for the United States at Madrid and at Stockholm.

John L. Lawrence

From June 7, 1814, to May 19, 1815, he was Chargé d'Affaires at Stockholm, representing the United States during the absence of Minister to Sweden Jonathan Russell.

Jose Maria Quijano Wallis

Later in 1878, he was appointed Chargé d'Affaires and Consul General in the Kingdom of Italy, close to His Majesty the King Umberto, where he remained until 1881.

Luis Vernet

He made several approaches to the British Government asking for support to re-establish his business at Port Louis, receiving support from Woodbine Parish (British chargé d'affaires in Buenos Aires from 1825 to 1832) as the best qualified person to develop the islands.

Operation Solomon

Also involved in the Israeli and Ethiopian governments’ attempts to facilitate the operation was a group of American diplomats led by Senator Rudy Boschwitz, including Irvin Hicks, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Robert Frasure, the Director of the African Affairs at the White House National Security Council; and Robert Houdek the Chargé d'Affaires of the United States Embassy in Addis Ababa.

Patricia McMahon Hawkins

She subsequently served as Information Officer in Kinshasa, Zaire, as Public Affairs Officer in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, as Cultural Affairs Officer in Bogotá, Colombia, as Counselor for Public Affairs in Abidjan, Cộte d'Ivoire, where she also served briefly as Acting DCM and then for several months as Chargé d'affaires.

Robert McCallum, Jr.

Following Schieffer's departure to take up the position of Ambassador to Japan in January 2005, the U.S. was represented by a Chargé d'Affaires, Bill Stanton, who also departed Australia before McCallum's appointment.

Simon Clement

He served in Vienna as secretary to the Earl of Peterborough on his embassy to the Emperor from 1711–12, later acting as Peterborough’s “charge d’affaires” in Vienna from April 1711 until late 1714.

Thomas Caute Reynolds

He was admitted to the Virginia Bar in 1844 and served as a chargé d'affaires in Madrid before moving to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1850.

Union nationale des associations de défense des familles et de l'individu

The association is sponsored by various ministries, including the ministry of Youth and sport and by social affaires, as well as by various communes and departments totalling 450 000 euros in 2002, over 80% of its budget.

United States Ambassador to Burundi

The U.S. Embassy in the capital Usumbura (now Bujumbura) was established on July 1, 1962, with Herbert V. Olds as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim.

United States Ambassador to Ethiopia

Note: Vicki J. Huddleston served as the Chargé d'Affaires ad interim at the embassy in Addis Ababa until Donald Yamamoto became the ambassador.

United States Ambassador to Iran

Bruce Laingen (1979) - Chargé d'Affaires, seized with the embassy on November 4, 1979 .

United States Ambassador to Libya

The United States recognized the Kingdom of Libya on December 24, 1951, in a congratulatory message sent by President Harry Truman to King Idris I. Diplomatic relations were established on the same day and the U.S. Consulate-General was elevated to a legation with Andrew Lynch designated as Charge d'Affaires ad interim.

United States Ambassador to Palau

The ambassadors to the Philippines continued to represent the U.S. until October 10, 2004, when the U.S. Embassy in Koror was established, with Deborah L. Kingsland as Chargé d’Affaires.

United States Ambassador to Rwanda

The U.S. Embassy in the capital Kigali was established on July 1, 1962, with David J.S. Manbey as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim.

United States Ambassador to Tajikistan

A temporary embassy was opened by Chargé d'Affaires ad interim Edmund McWilliams on March 13, 1992 in the Avesto Hotel, pending the appointment of an ambassador.

United States Ambassador to Togo

The State Department established an embassy in Yaoundé in nearby Cameroon on January 1, 1960, with Bolard More as Chargé d'affaires ad interim.

USS Mohongo

During the seven‑month visit, she received on board King Kamehameha V and Dowager Queen Emma, the American Chargé d'affaires Colonel Spaulding, U.S. Minister Edward M. McCook, and other Island officials and court members in July and August, and then cruised the Hawaiian chain, making charts and patrolling into December.

Yelverton P. King

In 1851, he was appointed Chargé d'Affaires to New Granada by President Millard Fillmore, and resigned in April 1853 due to poor health.


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