Foreign relations of Qatar is conducted through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Arab states were among the first to recognize Qatar,and the country gained admittance to the United Nations and the Arab League after achieving independence in 1971. The country was an early member of OPEC and a founding member of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Diplomatic missions to Qatar are based in its capital,Doha.
An ambassador is an official envoy,especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment. The word is also used informally for people who are known,without national appointment,to represent certain professions,activities and fields of endeavor such as sales.
The Heads of British diplomatic missions are persons appointed as senior diplomats to individual nations,or international organisations. They are usually appointed as ambassadors,except in member countries of the Commonwealth of Nations where a high commissioner is appointed. The head of mission to an international organisation is usually a permanent representative. For some nations a consul or consul-general is appointed.
Sir Ernest Mason Satow,,was a British scholar,diplomat and Japanologist.
Colonel Sir Claude Maxwell MacDonald,was a British soldier and diplomat,best known for his service in China and Japan.
Joseph Clark Grew was an American career diplomat and Foreign Service officer. He is best known as the ambassador to Japan from 1932 to 1941 and as a high official in the State Department in Washington from 1944 to 1945. He opposed American hardliners,sought to avoid war,and helped to ensure the soft Japanese surrender in 1945 that enabled a peaceful American Occupation of Japan after the war.
Diplomatic rank is a system of professional and social rank used in the world of diplomacy and international relations. A diplomat's rank determines many ceremonial details,such as the order of precedence at official processions,table seatings at state dinners,the person to whom diplomatic credentials should be presented,and the title by which the diplomat should be addressed.
Mahmoud Fawzi was an Egyptian diplomat and political figure who was Prime Minister of Egypt from 1970 to 1972 and the vice president of Egypt from 1972 to 1974.
Heinrich Georg Stahmer was a German diplomat and economist by training who was in charge of German–Japanese relations at the German Foreign Ministry. He was an aide to Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop (1938–1940),special envoy to Japan and ambassador to the pro-Japanese Reorganized National Government of China in occupied Nanjing (1940–1943),before becoming German Ambassador to Japan (1943–1945).
A consul is an official representative of the government of one state in the territory of another,normally acting to assist and protect the citizens of the consul's own country,as well as to facilitate trade and friendship between the people of the two countries.
A consulate is the office of a consul. A type of diplomatic mission,it is usually subordinate to the state's main representation in the capital of that foreign country,usually an embassy or –between Commonwealth countries –high commission. Like the terms embassy or high commission,consulate may refer not only to the office of consul,but also to the building occupied by the consul and the consul's staff. The consulate may share premises with the embassy itself.
Belgium–Japan relations are the bilateral relations between the nations of Belgium and Japan. Belgium has an embassy in Tokyo and five honorary consulates in Sapporo,Nagoya,Kyoto,Osaka,and Fukuoka. Japan has an embassy in Brussels.
The Foreign Service of Pakistan is part of the Central Superior Services of Pakistan. It was formally created in October 1952,after having been an improvised organization since the creation and independence of Pakistan in 1947. Its old name was Foreign Service of India working within the Indian Civil Service before 1947. After 1947,its recruitment and hiring of employees is done through the larger organization Civil Service of Pakistan.
Diplomacy comprises spoken or written speech acts by representatives of states intended to influence events in the international system.
Sir John Anthony Cecil Tilley was a British diplomat. He was British Ambassador to Brazil from 1921 to 1925,and Ambassador to Japan from 1926 to 1931.
Omar Abdel Aziz Sharaf was an Egyptian career diplomat,an Assistant Secretary General of the Arab League,a Deputy Representative of the UNHCR for the Middle East,as well as an Omani and international diplomat. He was a Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star,a recipient of the Order of Merit,First Class,and a recipient of the Order of the Republic,Second Class. He was also a lawyer,a member of the Egyptian Bar association,who until his death in 1993,was Doyen of a family clan of diplomats,politicians,linguists and lawyers.
The relations between the Holy See and Japan were informally established in 1919,when the Japanese government accepted a request by the Holy See to send an apostolic delegate to their country. It was not until 1942 that Japan began full diplomatic relations between the two states,making Japan the first Asian country to do so,and not until 1958 that the Japanese mission to the Vatican in Rome was upgraded to an embassy. The decision was made by Emperor Showa during World War II,hoping that the Vatican could serve as a mediator for negotiations between Japan and the Allies.
Yitzhak Eldan was born on October 30,1943. He is an Israeli diplomat as well as a former Israeli Ambassador. He has served,among other postings,as the Israeli Ambassador to Denmark,to the Council of Europe and UNESCO as well as Head of State Protocol for Israel. In 2011,he founded The Ambassadors’Club of Israel and continues to serve as its President. In addition,since 2013 he has been directing The Israeli School for Young Ambassadors.
