#diplomatist  an official engaged in international negotiations
  supertype:  functionary__official  a worker who holds or is invested with an office
  instance:  Ralph_Johnson_Bunche  John_Foster_Dulles  John_Kenneth_Galbraith  Edmund_Charles_Edouard_Genet  Dag_Hjalmar_Agne_Carl_Hammarskjold  William_Averell_Harriman  Townsend_Harris  Cordell_Hull  John_Jay  Henry_Alfred_Kissinger  Le_Duc_Tho  Vicomte_Ferdinand_Marie_de_Lesseps  Trygve_Halvden_Lie  Sir_Harold_George_Nicolson  Thomas_Nelson_Page  Anna_Eleanor_Roosevelt  Adlai_Ewing_Stevenson  Kurt_Waldheim
  subtype:  embassador__ambassador  a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another
     subtype:  ambassadress  a woman ambassador
     instance:  Andrei_Andreyevich_Gromyko__Gromyko__gromyko__Andrei_Gromyko
  subtype:  charge_d'affaires  the official temporarily in charge of a diplomatic mission in the absence of the ambassador
  subtype:  consul  a diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country
  subtype:  envoy_extraordinary__envoyextraordinary__envoy__minister_plenipotentiary  a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador
  subtype:  high_commissioner  a senior diplomat from one country to another who is assigned ambassadorial rank
  subtype:  internuncio  (Roman Catholic) a diplomatic representative of the Pope ranking below a nuncio
  subtype:  diplomatic_minister__minister  a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador
  subtype:  nuncio  (Roman Catholic) a diplomatic representative of the Pope having ambassadorial status
  subtype:  persona_grata__personagrata  a diplomat who is acceptable to the government to which he is sent
  subtype:  persona_non_grata  a diplomat who is unacceptable to the government to which he is sent
  subtype:  plenipotentiary  a diplomat who is fully authorized to represent his or her government

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