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Understanding the Role of Ambassadors

This quiz tests your knowledge about the role and functions of ambassadors in international diplomacy, addressing their titles, ranks, and historical contexts.

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1 An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat that represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or ________, or to an international organization.

2 The formal form of address for an ambassador is generally the form that would be used to address a head of state: "(Your/His/Her) ________" followed by name and/or the country represented.

3 For example, ambassadors to and from the ________ are accredited to or from the Royal Court of St. James's (referring to St. James's Palace).

4 The senior diplomatic officers among members of the ________ are known as High Commissioners, who are the heads of High Commissions.

5 Because seventeen members of the ________ have or had a common head of state, they do not exchange ambassadors, but instead have High Commissioners, who represent the government, rather than the head of state.

6 For further details, see ________.

7 In French speaking regions such as France, ________ or Quebec, the title of ambassadeur person.

8 Ambassadors are ministers of the highest rank, with ________ authority to represent their head of state.

9 Representatives of the ________ are known as Papal or Apostolic Nuncios (Smith,112).

10 The ________ of 1815 formalized the system of diplomatic rank under international law:

💡 Interesting Facts

  • in addition to her academic career, German-Norwegian political scientist Helga Hernes has been a State Secretary as well as an ambassador to several European countries.
  • Timurid relations with Europe in the early 15th century led to the exchange of ambassadors and offers of offensive, defensive and commercial alliances.
  • the Romanian mathematician Simion Stoilow was ambassador to France and a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference in 1946, just prior to serving as founding director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy.
  • the British Levant Company avoided a fatal mistake of other chartered companies by paying their consuls and ambassadors a pension, so that they would not impose taxes on merchants for personal gain.
  • while Auguste Achintre was traveling to New York City as Haiti's ambassador to the United States, the Haitian government was overthrown, revoking his role as ambassador.
  • when British diplomat Sir Alan Campbell became ambassador to Ethiopia, he noticed people kneeling down in reverence as his car drove to the palace of Emperor Haile Selassie.
  • Ronald E. Neumann the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan is the first ambassador since John Q. Adams in 1817 to be appointed to the same country where his father was also ambassador.
  • Repnin Sejm of 1767-68 in Poland was so named after the Russian Empire ambassador Nicholas Repnin, who coerced the Sejm (Polish parliament) into accepting his demands.
  • Ingvald Smith-Kielland left his ambassadorship in the Czechoslovak Republic after the Prague Spring.
  • Gunnar Garbo, member of the Norwegian Parliament for four electorial periods, was later Ambassador to Tanzania.
  • John Momis, a former Catholic priest and ambassador to China, defeated Autonomous Region of Bougainville's incumbent President James Tanis in the 2010 Bougainvillean presidential election.
  • Opoku Ware II, King of the Ashanti people from 1970 to 1999, worked as a building inspector, a surveyor, a lawyer, and an ambassador prior to his enthronement.
  • Peter Tsiamalili, the first chief administrator of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, also served as Papua New Guinea's ambassador to Belgium.
  • Pat Brister, first woman state chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party, was ambassador to the UN Commission on the Status of Women from 2006 to 2008.
  • Charles Edward Magoon (pictured) was appointed as Minister to Panama while already serving as the Governor of the Panama Canal Zone, to prevent any further disagreements between those two offices.
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