chargé d'affaires

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Recent Examples of chargé d'affaires Speaking in Warsaw, Sikorski confirmed that the Russian charge d'affaires was summoned to receive a formal protest note, though the diplomat refused to acknowledge the drones as Russian. Amanda Castro shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025 Poland summoned the Russian charge d'affaires to demand an explanation after one such incident in December 2023. David Brennan, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2025 Elizabeth Rood, the charge d'affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, is also in attendance at court, CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen reported. Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 1 July 2022 Earlier in the day, Kuwait followed Saudi Arabia and Bahrain by ordering the Lebanese charge d'affaires Saturday to leave the emirate within two days. The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2021 Daniel Smith to lead the US Embassy in New Delhi as the new charge d'affaires. Jennifer Hansler, CNN, 7 May 2021 In Bum Chun; Andrei Lankov, director, NK News, professor, Kookmin University; Evans J.R. Revere, former deputy chief of mission and charge d'affaires, U.S. Embassy, Seoul. Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 24 Mar. 2021
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  • In recent years, Orbán was awarded the Russian Order of Glory and Honor from the Patriarch of Moscow and Orbán’s foreign minister received the Order of Friendship from Putin’s foreign minister.
    Kim Lane Scheppele, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Kim Yong Nam joined the ruling Workers’ Party shortly after the Korean War, survived several political purges in the 1970s, entered the Politburo in 1978, and served as North Korea’s foreign minister from 1983 to 1998.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • To make sure traffic always flows through their infrastructure, the extensions dynamically reconfigure Chrome's proxy settings using an auto-configuration script.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • In 2022, the regime still maintained its proxy and partner network across the Middle East; its nuclear program, too, provided a protective shell.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • This was the case last month at a meeting of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), which regulates pollution from the international shipping fleet, where US diplomats acted in concert with major oil-producing nations to scuttle what would have been the world’s first carbon tax.
    Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The move, widely seen as an abandonment of long-standing arms control traditions, has alarmed diplomats and security analysts worldwide.
    Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
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  • At the same time, the barrage of vitriol unleashed by China castigating Takaichi as a warmongering militarist includes a reprehensible threat by the Chinese consul-general in Osaka about beheading Takaichi.
    Jeff Kingston, Time, 30 Nov. 2025
  • According to Reforma, Rocha, a Mexican businessman who also serves as a consul of Guatemala in Mexico, is considered by FRG to be an alleged leader of a criminal organization that smuggles fuel in boats through the Usumacinta River and then in trucks to Querétaro, Mexico.
    Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025

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“Chargé d'affaires.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/charg%C3%A9%20d%27affaires. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.

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