*as of ‘9 NOVEMBER 2023’*
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“Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary”
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-in ‘diplomacy’, an ‘envoy’ is – under the terms of the ‘Congress of Vienna’ of 1815 – a diplomat of the 2nd class, ranking between an ‘Ambassador’ and a ‘Minister Resident’-
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(usually just referred to as a ‘Minister’, an ‘Envoy’ is a diplomatic representative, not considered a representative of the ‘head of state’, but nonetheless with ‘plenipotentiary’ powers (i.e. “full authority to represent the government”))
(a diplomatic mission headed by an ‘Envoy’ would be called a ‘Legation’ rather than an ‘Embassy’)
(‘Envoys’ are entitled to use the style “His/Her Excellency”)
(until the mid-20th century, the majority of ‘diplomats’ in the world were of the rank of ‘Envoy’, with the exchanges of ‘ambassadors’ being reserved among ‘major nations’, or close allies and related monarchies)
(‘The Holy See’ did not use the rank of ‘Envoy’, but instead had the equivalent titles of ‘Internuncio’ and (at least in ‘Anglo-Papal’ diplomacy between 1914 and 1982) ‘Apostolic Delegate’)
(after ‘World War II’, it was no longer considered acceptable to treat some nations as inferior to others given the ‘United Nations’ doctrine of ‘equality of sovereign states’; therefore the rank of ‘Envoy’ for diplomatic missions’ highest-ranking officials gradually ceased)
(the position still existed in 1961, when the ‘Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations’ was signed, but it did not outlive the decade)
(the last remaining American ‘legations’, in the ‘Warsaw Pact’ countries of ‘Bulgaria’ and ‘Hungary’, were upgraded to ’embassies’ in 1966)
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