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 r
Ambassador Daoud Zadour of Persia.
Arrival of the English Ambassadors by Vittore Carpaccio, painted between 1495 and 1500—though ostensibly part of a series of paintings on the life of Saint Ursula, this actually depicts the developing diplomatic practices of the Republic of Venice in the painter's own time.
Before an ambassador takes office, their credentials must be accepted, such as when South African Ambassador Harry Schwarz handed his credentials to U.S. President George H. W. Bush in 1991.
Maria-Pia Kothbauer, Princess of Liechtenstein and ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the Czech Republic, presenting her credentials to Václav Klaus.
A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host st
Ambassador
…representative stationed in a foreign capital or country. The host country typically allows the ambassador control of specific territory called an embassy (which may include an official residence and an office, chancery, located together or separately, generally in the host nation's capital), whose…
The garden façade of the Hôtel de Besenval in Paris, the Embassy of the Swiss Confederation and the residence of the Swiss ambassador to France.
The Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Helsinki functioning as a polling station.
Spanish embassy to the Holy See and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in Rome, Italy.
Embassy of the United States in Helsinki, Finland.