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>I was in the third year of my mission as Czech ambassador to France I hate to be that guy, but isn't the Czech Ambassador's job to be dealing with (listening
by fsckboy 3y ago
>I was in the third year of my mission as Czech ambassador to France
I hate to be that guy, but isn't the Czech Ambassador's job to be dealing with (listening to) the French État (govt), while it's a Czech Consul's job to handle matters for ordinary citizens?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consul_(representative) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consul_(representative)
A consul is an official representative of a government who resides in a foreign country to assist and protect citizens of the consul's country, and to promote and facilitate commercial and diplomatic relations between the two countries...Unlike an ambassador, who serves as the singular representative of one government to another, a state may appoint several consuls in a foreign nation, typically in major cities; consuls are usually tasked with providing assistance in bureaucratic issues to both citizens of their own country traveling or living abroad and to the citizens of the country in which the consul resides who wish to travel to or trade with the consul's country.
- brmgb 3y agoNot really. An ambassador is the head of an embassy while consuls are heads of consulates. A country have one embassy per foreign country but it can have multiple consulates. The Ambassador may have the responsibility traditionally held by a consul on top of being the main representative of their country but sometimes in large country an embassy will itself contain a consulate leading to a situation close to the one you describe. A consul is still a representative and will be expected to interact with the politicians and business representatives of the generally smaller cities they live in. Sometimes countries close embassies but maintain consulates in period of diplomatic trouble and you end up with consuls being de facto ambassadors.