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A chargé d'affaires (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁʒe dafɛʁ] ⓘ), plural chargés d'affaires, often shortened to chargé (French) and sometimes in colloquial English to charge-D, is a diplomat who serves as an embassy's chief of mission in the absence of the ambassador.
A chargé d'affaires ad interim is a diplomat who temporarily heads a diplomatic mission in the absence of an ambassador. The body of diplomats accredited to a country form the diplomatic corps . Ambassadors have precedence over chargés, and precedence within each rank is determined by the date on which diplomatic credentials were presented. [ 4 ]
In diplomatic usage, head of mission (HOM) or chief of mission (COM) from the French "chef de mission diplomatique" (CMD) is the head of a diplomatic representation, such as an ambassador, high commissioner, nuncio, chargé d'affaires, permanent representative, and sometimes to a consul-general. [1]
DCMs serve as chargé d'affaires (that is, as acting chief of mission) when the titular head of mission is outside the host country or when the post is vacant. A DCM typically serves as a key advisor to the chiefs of mission as well as a chief of staff , and is responsible for the day-to-day management of the post.
In the Commonwealth of Nations, a high commissioner is the senior diplomat, generally ranking as an ambassador, in charge of the diplomatic mission of one Commonwealth government to another. Instead of an embassy, the diplomatic mission is generally called a high commission .
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. [1]
Chargé d'Affaires ad interim: December 1984 March 1986 John C. Leary: Chargé d'Affaires ad interim: March 1986 January 9, 1987 Chargé d'Affaires January 9, 1987 May 1988 James Ford Cooper: Chargé d'Affaires June 1988 January 1991 Annette T. Veler: Chargé d'Affaires July 1991 July 1993 George H. W. Bush: Ollie P. Anderson, Jr. Chargé d ...
Manoj Kumar Sinha, chargé d'affaires. HCI, Yaounde Canada: Sanjay Kumar Verma: 2022 06 HCI, Ottawa Chile: Abhilasha Joshi: 2024 03 EOI, Santiago China: List: Pradeep Kumar Rawat: 2021 12 EOI, Beijing Colombia: Vanlalhuma: 2022 09 EOI, Bogota DR Congo