One can only renounce US citizenship by signing an oath of renunciation in the presence of a US consular or diplomatic officer.
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In addition to an interview at a U.S. consulate or embassy and signing an oath before a diplomatic officer, anyone looking to drop their citizenship has to pay a fee.
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"[U]nfortunately, nobody has advised the (principal diplomatic officer) that Benghazi is there to support [redacted] operations, not conduct substantive reporting," the agent wrote, in a possible sign that the primary purpose of the mission was in fact to support the CIA.
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Anyone who wishes to renounce their U.S. citizenship must, according to the State Department, appear in person before a U.S. consular or diplomatic officer in a foreign country or at a U.S. Embassy or Consulate and sign an oath declaring their renunciation.
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Neither of those visits came close to what appears to be the case this week: The United States' top diplomatic officer, who is not in the military's chain of civilian command, is traveling to a war headquarters to discuss prospects for military action with the generals there.
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Ayman Rashdan Wong (also writing under the name A.R.W.; born 1988) is a Malaysian writer and geopolitical analyst. He is also an Administrative and Diplomatic Officer in the Malaysian government.
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In only the most extreme emergency situations are they authorized to provide special protection to the senior diplomatic officer off the diplomatic compound. MSGs carry a certain level of diplomatic immunity in the performance of their official duties.
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Miltiadis' son was the medical doctor Dimitrios Doumbiotis (1874–1917), employee of the Greek consulate in Bitola, and responsible for the area of Kastoria during the Macedonian Struggle in 1908. His son was Kosmas- Alexandros-Miltiadis, diplomatic officer (1917–1991).
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Freelance international humanitarian aid worker Peter Kernan quits his work in Thailand in disgust due to the political machinations that he feels is not helping the people who deserve aid. He finds himself in a quandary as his own relief efforts have left him destitute and owing his friend Canadian diplomatic officer Carl Pimmler a large amount of money. Pimmler has realised he will never be adequately rewarded for being a minor government diplomatic officer and offers Kernan a piece of his action. Kernan will drive an army truck loaded with medical supplies into Cambodia where he will be paid in gold bullion by a local warlord.
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Lucile Atcherson Curtis was the first woman in what became the U.S. Foreign Service. Specifically, she was the first woman appointed as a United States Diplomatic Officer or Consular Officer, in 1923 (the U.S. did not establish the unified Foreign Service until 1924, at which time Diplomatic and Consular Officers became Foreign Service Officers).
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Jordanian law permits voluntary renunciation of Jordanian citizenship, with the permission of the Board of Ministers. Someone wishing to renounce his/her citizenship must contact the Jordanian consular or diplomatic officer or a Jordanian embassy within a foreign nation and pay the required fee and further be approved by the Ministry of the Interior.
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Although Hamdi renounced his U.S. citizenship, it is unclear whether the renunciation counts as "voluntary", as required by the Supreme Court's decisions in Afroyim v. Rusk and Vance v. Terrazas. U.S. Department of State regulations hold that formal renunciations are valid only if made before a U.S. consular or diplomatic officer outside the United States.
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Falaniko "Falani" Iosefo Aukuso (September 1948 – 31 July 2008) was the deputy director general of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community. Aukuso was a native of Tokelau. He served as the Tokelauan director of education. He later worked as a diplomatic officer with the New Zealand Ministry of External Relations and Trade from 1990 to 1994.
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Lucile Atcherson Curtis (1894-1986) was the first woman in what became the U.S. Foreign Service. Specifically, she was the first woman appointed as a United States Diplomatic Officer or Consular Officer, in 1923; the U.S. would not establish the unified Foreign Service until 1924, at which time Diplomatic and Consular Officers became Foreign Service Officers.
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1964-1970 – Student of Moscow State Institute of International relations (MGIMO), majoring in Asian studies and World economy. 1968-1970 – An exchange student at Nanyang University (Singapore) upgrading knowledge of Northern (Mandrin) and Shanghainese dialects of Chinese language. 1970-1973 – A diplomatic officer at the Foreign Ministry of the USSR (Southeast Asian and Chinese desks). 1973-1979 – Consul of the USSR Consulate General in San Francisco (USA).
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Lauder started to work for the Estée Lauder Company in 1964. In 1984, he became a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO policy at the United States Department of Defense. In 1986, Ronald Reagan named him as the United States Ambassador to Austria, a position he held until 1987. As ambassador, he fired diplomatic officer Felix Bloch, who later became known in connection with the Robert Hanssen espionage case.
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1945) was a United States Army officer and the diplomatic officer Consul General to Tunis (1797–1803). He played an important diplomatic and military role in the First Barbary War between the United States and Tripoli (1801–1805). He led the first foreign United States military victory at the Battle of Derne by capturing the Tripoli subject city of Derne in support of the restoration of the pasha (local monarch), Hamet Caramelli.Adams, p.
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Herbert D. Spivack was the principal American diplomatic officer in Dhaka at the time. Four days later, the United States and Bangladesh agreed to establish diplomatic relations at the embassy level. The consulate-general was officially upgraded to an embassy on 18 May 1972. Relations between Bangladesh and the American-led Western world dramatically improved in the late 1970s, when President Ziaur Rahman reversed the socialist policies of the first post-independence government and restored free markets.
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Spivack was the principal diplomatic officer of the United States in Dhaka and the top diplomat at the Dhaka consulate during the war. He was recalled to Washington D.C. for consultations and was asked by President Richard Nixon to convey the recognition of the United States to President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh. On 18 May `972 the US consulate in Dhaka was upgraded to a full embassy under Spivack. From 1974 to 1975, he was the U.S. Consul General in Munich, Germany.
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The United States established its consulate-general in Dacca in 1949, when the city was the capital of East Bengal in the Dominion of Pakistan. During the independence of Bangladesh, it was the site of the famous Blood Telegram sent by then-Consul-general Archer Blood detailing atrocities committed by the Pakistani Army during Operation Searchlight. The United States recognized the independence of Bangladesh on 4 April 1972. Herbert D. Spivack was the principal American diplomatic officer in Dhaka at the time.
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Abu Hassan was born on 15 September 1940 in Bukit Belimbing, Kuala Selangor, Selangor. He received his early education at the Malay School of Bukit Belimbing (1946–1950) before furthering his studies at Klang High School (1951–1957), Malay College Kuala Kangsar (1958–1959) and University of Hull, England (1960–1963 and 1971–1973). Abu Hassan was married to Wan Nor Daud and the couple had five children. Before entering politics, he served as Administration and Diplomatic Officer (ADO) from 1964 to 1978.
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Initially diplomatic affairs were conducted through the Chinese embassy in Tunisia. In December 1995, China has established a foreign office located in the Gaza Strip that acted as a de facto embassy and liaison office to the Palestinian Liberation Organization; however, the Ambassador to Tunisia continued to act as the main diplomatic officer to Palestine until 2008. In May 2004, the office, officially named Office of the People's Republic of China to the State of Palestine, was moved to Ramallah. The director of the office is accorded ambassadorial ranks in the Chinese foreign service.
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A diplomatic officer of the Bahamas MAE has obtained a scholarship funded by the Santander Bank for the International Relations Master of the Diplomatic School, 2014/15 academic year. The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Tourism, Harrison Thompson, participated in the High Level Seminar on Innovative Practices in Tourism for the Caribbean held in Madrid from 9 to 14 June 2014. The Seminar was jointly organized by the Secretary of State for International Cooperation and for Latin America and the Secretary of State for Tourism, with the collaboration of Turespaña, SEGITTUR and the School of Industrial Organization.
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The formal and permanent use of Marines as security guards began with the Foreign Service Act of 1946, which authorized the Secretary of Navy to, upon the request of the Secretary of State, assign Marines to serve as custodians under the supervision of the senior diplomatic officer at a diplomatic post. The first joint Memorandum of Agreement was signed on 15 December 1948 regarding the provisions of assigning Marines overseas. Trained at the Foreign Service Institute, the first Marines arrived at Tangier and Bangkok in early 1949. The Marine Corps assumed the primary training responsibility in November 1954.
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J.M.S. Careless was born in Toronto, Ontario and attended the University of Toronto Schools. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1940 from Trinity College at the University of Toronto. He attended Harvard University and received a Master's degree in 1941 and a Ph.D. in 1950. During the Second World War, he worked in the historical branch of Naval Service Headquarters at Ottawa, then transferred to the Department of External Affairs, where he served as Canadian Diplomatic Officer aboard the exchange ship . Careless began lecturing at the University of Toronto in 1945, where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Canadian political, ethnic, urban and intellectual history.
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The constitution of the new Canadian federation left foreign affairs to the Imperial Parliament, in Westminster, but the leaders of the federal parliament, in Ottawa, soon developed their own viewpoints on some issues, notably relations between the British Empire and the United States. Stable relations and secure trade with the United States were becoming increasingly vital to Canada, so much so that historians have said that Canada's early diplomacy constituted a "North Atlantic triangle". Most of Canada's early attempts at diplomacy necessarily involved the "mother country." Canada's first (informal) diplomatic officer was Sir John Rose, who was sent to London by Canadian Prime Minister John A. Macdonald.
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Formosa Betrayed is a 1965 book written by George H. Kerr, a US diplomatic officer in Taiwan, who witnessed the February 28 Incident, and the corruption and killings committed by the Kuomintang (KMT, Chinese Nationalist Party) in Taiwan after World War II. Formosa Betrayed is one of the most influential books about Taiwan's transition from Japanese colonial rule. Kerr was working for the American Foreign Service at the time of the transition, and was present in Taiwan for the KMT occupation and resulting aftermath. Formosa Betrayed sharply rebuked the Nationalist administration and made arguments in favor of Taiwanese independence. The book was originally published in 1965 by Houghton Mifflin.
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Aliens Stole My Body concludes the four-book series. After the departure of Selima Khan, the group characters from The Search for Snout splits up into three groups, Rod and Seymour head for the planet Kryndamar, along with Snout, Elspeth, and Madam Pong (the Diplomatic Officer of the Ferkel). Meanwhile, Grakker and Phil (the sentient plant who serves as the Ferkel's science officer) leave to re-establish contact with the Galactic Patrol, and Ah-Rit heads off with Tar Gibbons in an attempt to reclaim Rod's body from BKR. While on Kryndamar, Rod begins training his mind with Snout, and later gains a few new allies: the intergalactic pet trader Mir-Van; his family; and his business partner Grumbo.
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The Head of the Foundation is S. Oyun, a prominent Mongolian politician who is also the Director of External Affairs at Green Climate Fund. Its current Executive Director is Maralmaa Munkh-Achit. The full board of directors is as follows: Oyun S. Head of Zorig Foundation; Badamdamdin R. Former Member of Parliament; Badamdash D. CEO, Mongolian Airlines Group; Batbayar N. Member of Parliament; Batbold S. Member of Parliament; Bayartsogt S. Member of Parliament; Medree B. Vice President, Mongolian Bankers Association; Otgonbayar Ch. Head of the Foundation for the Empowerment of Rural Women; Chimeddorj T. Senior Diplomatic Officer; Sukhjargalmaa D. Independent Advisor; Enkhtuya O. Country Director, The Nature Conservancy. The Foundation also has an auditing board in order to ensure the transparency of the organization.
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Under the Nationality Act of 1940 as it stood originally, renunciation of citizenship could only be performed before a United States diplomatic officer overseas. In December 1943, Martin Dies, Jr. (D-TX) asked Attorney General Francis Biddle to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee to testify on the handling of internees seeking to depart from the United States for Japan; Biddle recommended amending the 1940 Act to permit loss of nationality by persons on U.S. soil. Biddle and the Department of Justice drafted a bill to that effect and were significantly involved in efforts to lobby Congress for support. Edward Ennis of the Department of Justice estimated that between one and three thousand Japanese Americans would renounce citizenship under the law's provisions.
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Diplomatic plate Diplomatic plates are issued to foreign diplomats by the Government of the Australian Capital Territory. They would formerly grant diplomatic immunity to the vehicle and driver from all traffic laws, speed limits, parking infringements and tolls in all reasonable course of duty by a diplomatic officer, in compliance with international treaty, but this is no longer the case. They follow the format of 'DC nnnn', 'DCnnnnn', 'DX nnnn' or 'DXnnnnn', where the first two or three numbers are the code for the home country of the diplomat, and have black text on a powder blue background. DC plates are issued to members of the diplomatic corps, whereas DX plates are issued to persons who are attached to diplomatic missions but are not themselves diplomats, e.g.
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Armas Otto Rafael Yöntilä (former. Lindstedt; 26 April 1892, in Helsinki – 1979Facta 2001 osa 18 palsta 683) was a master of philosophy and a Finnish diplomat. He completed his master's degree in philosophy in 1919 and studied in Jena in 1914, Besacon in 1922 and in The Hague in 1923. Yesterday, he served as Foreign Secretary in Paris from 1919 to 1921, as second secretary to the Foreign Ministry from 1921 to 1922, as First Secretary 1922–1923, as Secretary of State from 1923 to 1927 and as Division Officer from 1927 to 1928. He served as Secretary and Counselor in Berlin from 1929 to 1934 and as Chargé d'Affaires and Consul General in Prague from 1934 to 1937. He was then Head of Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1938 to 1940 and again as a Diplomatic Officer: first Consul General in Brussels in 1940, then in Hamburg from 1940 to 1942.
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