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Culture in Rome

According to the Lateran Treaty, certain properties of the Holy See that are located in Italian territory, most notably Castel Gandolfo and the major basilicas, enjoy extraterritorial status similar to that of foreign embassies.


Ali Mohamed

In 1993 Mohamed also traveled to Africa to survey embassies in Africa such as the Nairobi, (Kenya) embassy which Al-Qaeda later bombed.

Deputy Chief of Mission

A Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM, in Europe a term Deputy Head of Mission is used instead of), is the number-two diplomat assigned to an embassy or other diplomatic mission.

Indian Ambassador to Cote d'Ivoire

The Indian Ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire is in charge of the Republic of India's diplomatic mission to Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea.


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Alejandro Heredia

General Manuel Belgrano dispatched him on a diplomatic mission to talk with the royalist general José Manuel de Goyeneche.

Ali Kryeziu

In 1978, Kryeziu became an essential part of the Diplomatic Mission of the Former Yugoslav Republic in the United Nations.

Anita Hoffman

As per CNN, "in one of her most audacious moves, she went on a sort of diplomatic mission to Algeria to meet with Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver, and try to forge a coalition between the Panthers and the Yippies."

Antonio Cánovas del Castillo

During the final years of Isabel II, he served in a number of posts, including a diplomatic mission to Rome, governor of Cádiz, and director general of local administration.

Battle of Benghazi

2012 Benghazi attack, an assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission, 11-12 September, 2012

British Consulate-General, Dallas

The British Consulate General in Dallas was a diplomatic mission of the United Kingdom located in the Oak Lawn area of Dallas, Texas, United States.

Canadian Consulate, Houston

The Consulate of Canada in Houston (French: Consulat du Canada à Houston) is a diplomatic mission of Canada located in Suite 1700 of the San Felipe Plaza building in Houston, Texas, United States.

Charles Thomas, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg

In 1802, he participated in a diplomatic mission of the Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg family to Paris.

Dobrogost of Nowy Dwór

As Bishop he undertook a diplomatic mission to pope Urban VI on behalf of Wladyslaw Jagiello, the result of which was a Papal Bull of 12 March 1388 forming a bishopric in Vilnius, and between 1386 and 1394 he was a papal collector.

Duarte Fernandes

In 1511, soon after the Portuguese conquest of Malacca, knowing of Siamese ambitions over Malay, Afonso de Albuquerque immediately sent him in a diplomatic mission to the court of the King of Siam Ramathibodi II, traveling in a Chinese junk returning home.

Elihu B. Washburne

As minister — head of the U.S. diplomatic mission — to France, Washburne was the only diplomat from a major power to stay in Paris during the Franco-Prussian War and played a major role in providing both diplomatic and humanitarian support during the siege of Paris and, after the war, the Paris Commune.

G. B. Pegram

Following Marcus Oliphant's mission to the USA in August 1941 to alert the Americans to the feasibility of an atomic bomb, in autumn 1941 Pegram and Urey led a diplomatic mission to the United Kingdom to establish co-operation on development of the atomic bomb.

Gennaro Spinelli, Prince of Cariati

During Luigi de' Medici's constitutional Neapolitan government following the restoration of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Spinelli was sent to Paris on a diplomatic mission of Louis XVIII of France and to Vienna on one to Francis II (both in 1820).

Henry X Rumpold

Under the service of Emperor Sigismund, Henry X was a mediator in international affairs, and he was sent in a diplomatic mission to Denmark, where after successfully negotiations with the King Eric, was arranged his betrothal with the King's first cousin Adelaide (b. 1410 - d. aft. 1445), daughter of Duke Bogislaw VIII of Pomerania-Stargard; but he died soon after in a military camp in Flubsberg.

House of Waldstein

When in 1703 he returned from a diplomatic mission to France and Portugal on a Portuguese ship, he was captured by the French and held at Vincennes for nearly a year.

James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn

In early 1901 he was appointed by King Edward to lead a special diplomatic mission to announce the King's accession to the governments of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, Russia, Germany, and Saxony.

James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn

In early 1901 he accompanied his father on a special diplomatic mission to announce the accession of King Edward to the governments of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, Russia, Germany, and Saxony.

Jesuit Missions amongst the Huron

The unstable peace came to an end in the summer of 1647 when a diplomatic mission headed by Jesuit Father Isaac Jogues and Jean de Lalande to Mohawk territory (one of the five Iroquois nations) was accused of treachery and evil magic.

John Alexander Sinclair

Sir John's retirement coincided with a failed frogman mission to investigate the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze that had brought the leader of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev and Prime Minister Nikolai Bulganin on a diplomatic mission to Britain, resulting in the death of frogman Lionel Crabb.

John Crowne

His father "Colonel" William Crowne, accompanied the earl of Arundel on a diplomatic mission to Vienna in 1637, and wrote an account of his journey.

John Yonge

He was ordained in 1500 and held several livings before receiving his first diplomatic mission to arrange a commercial treaty with the archduke of Austria in 1504, and in the Low Countries in 1506 in connection with the projected marriage between Henry VII and Margaret of Savoy.

José Faustino Sánchez Carrión

He later participated in the diplomatic mission which traveled to Guayaquil to invite Simon Bolivar to Peru.

Klin, Klinsky District, Moscow Oblast

A short time later on 19 December the British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and the Soviet ambassador to Great Britain I. M. Maysky visited the town with more than twenty correspondents during Eden's first diplomatic mission to Moscow.

Nara Narayan

He sent a diplomatic mission in 1555 to court of the new Ahom king Sukhaamphaa (1552–1603) to gather information about its state.

Noemí Sanín

On November 19, 2007 President Uribe announced her transfer to the United Kingdom diplomatic mission being replaced by the Vice President of Colombia, Francisco Santos.

Sergey Sazonov

Having graduated from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, Sazonov served in the London embassy, and the diplomatic mission to the Vatican, of which he became the chief in March 1906.

Tsehai Publishers

The December 2012 issue of IJES contained recently declassified documents written by Henry Kissinger for then president Richard Nixon in anticipation of Ethiopian emperor Halie Selassie’s arrival in Washington DC on a diplomatic mission.

Waichirō Sonobe

From 1925 to 1927, Sonobe was the Army representative to the Japanese diplomatic Mission to the League of Nations.

William Cornwallis Harris

From 1841 to 1843, Harris led a British diplomatic mission from Bombay to Sahle Selassie, Negus of Shewa, at the time an autonomous district of Ethiopia, with whom they negotiated a commercial treaty.