Diplomatic posts are divided into ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, representative, deputy representative, minister, minister counsellor, counsellor, first secretary, second secretary, third secretary and attache.
Consular duties: Consuls are government officials stationed in foreign countries to safeguard their own interests and protect the legitimate rights and interests of their citizens and legal persons, and consulates abroad are their working institutions. Consular departments are usually set up in embassies abroad, and diplomatic officials are assigned to take charge of consular affairs or concurrently serve as consular officials. Consular duties are divided into: consul general, deputy consul general, consul, deputy consul and consular attache.
There are seven diplomatic ranks: ambassador, minister, counselor, first secretary, second secretary, third secretary and attache.
The diplomatic rank of diplomatic personnel stationed abroad shall be determined according to their positions in diplomatic institutions stationed abroad, civil service positions and diplomatic work needs.
The highest rank of the Ambassador himself in China is Deputy Department (currently there are about 10 people), Division and Deputy Division. Ministers and minister counsellors are generally directors and deputy directors; Counselors are deputy directors and directors; The first secretary and the second secretary are official and deputy; The third-class secretary and attache are full-time and deputy division level.
The consul general is a secretary or deputy secretary; The deputy consul general is the deputy director and director level; Consuls are mostly bureau-level and deputy bureau-level; Vice-consuls and consular attaché s belong to family members and deputy family members.
Ambassador: The full name is "Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary", and it is the highest-ranking diplomatic envoy. When a head of state is sent to another head of state, he enjoys higher courtesy than the other two diplomatic envoys (ministers and agents) and has the right to ask the head of state in the host country to meet with senior officials in the host country to negotiate.
Minister: The full name is "Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary" or "Minister Plenipotentiary". The minister is a second-class diplomatic envoy, sent by the head of state. Courtesy is second only to the ambassador, but the substantive duties, positions and diplomatic privileges and immunities are the same as those of the ambassador.
Agency: When a diplomatic representative is absent or unable to perform his duties for some reason, a diplomat appointed to act as an ambassador or minister is called an agency. The charge d 'affaires is the highest-ranking diplomat who exercises the functions and powers of the head of the embassy in the name of the charge d 'affaires.
Counsellor: a diplomat in an embassy who is below the rank of ambassador. Counselors are divided into minister counselors, political counselors, business counselors, economic counselors, cultural counselors and educational counselors. The number of counsellors in each country's embassy depends on its situation and needs. Generally speaking, embassies usually have business counselor and cultural counsellors. When the ambassador leaves his post or is unable to perform his duties, the embassy with a minister counselor or political counselor will first perform the duties of agent.
Secretary: It's a diplomatic post of foreign diplomats, which is divided into first secretary, second secretary and third secretary. Its authority shall be decided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or other dispatched departments, and its diplomatic rank shall be approved and awarded by the dispatched department when it is dispatched, and shall be approved and awarded by the dispatched department according to the opinions of diplomatic institutions abroad during its work abroad.
Military attaché: Military attaché s stationed abroad are special diplomats, diplomatic representatives of national armed forces, military assistants of embassy directors (usually ambassadors of various countries) and stationed in embassies of various countries.
Attaché: A kind of diplomat, the lowest rank in the internationally accepted diplomatic rank sequence, enjoying diplomatic privileges and immunities. Its task is to work under the orders of the curator (ambassador, consul general).
Extended data:
Before19th century, there was no uniform regulation on the rank of diplomats. In order to avoid the grade dispute, the 18 15 diplomatic representative grade rules stipulate three grades: ambassador, holy see ambassador, holy see minister and agent. 18 18 The Aix-La Chapel meeting decided to add an embassy level between ministers and charge d 'affaires, but few countries sent diplomatic representatives at this level.
The three grades stipulated in the Rules for the Grades of Diplomatic Representatives have been accepted by most countries and become recognized rules. 196 1 Vienna convention on diplomatic relations stipulates that the heads of embassies are divided into the following three levels: ambassadors or holy see ambassadors, and other heads of embassies at the same level; Minister and minister of the holy see; be an agent
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Diplomat-Baidu Encyclopedia