Country Desk

Country Desk is generally known as

offices for state departments and foreign

offices for each country with which they

have active dealings.

A large embassy needs support if a

large country is involves and the desk is

likely to be staffed by a large number of

officers. Vice versa, a smaller country

may require a one-officer desk only.

Country Team

‘Country Team’ is an American

diplomatic term meaning the

ambassador’s cabinet. The team

consists of his deputy chief of mission,

heads of all important embassy

sections, and the chiefs of all order

elements, working under him in the

“embassy community”.

Good Offices

An effort by a third state, or by an

individual or an international body,

designed to stimulate the processes of

settlement in a dispute between two

other states.

Diplomatic Corps

Diplomatic Corps is defined as the body

of foreign diplomats assembled at a

nation’s capital. However, in cities

where consuls and consul generals are

reside, they are collectively known as

the consular corps.

Generally, the official/officer who had

been at his post the longest will be the

dean of both corps. The dean

represents the corps in collective

dealings with host country officials on

matters of a ceremonial or

administrative character affecting the

corps as a whole.

Legation

Legation is rare now, but it was once

very common. A legation is a diplomatic

mission similar for most practical

purposes to an embassy, but lowers in

rank, and presided over by a minister

rather than an ambassador.

Background Picture:

Consulate General of Malaysia, Medan,

Indonesia.

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