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ambassador and neutral
Sir Edward Grey replied through the American ambassador that the incident could be grouped together with the Germans ' sinking of the SS Arabic, their attack on a stranded British submarine on the neutral Dutch coast, and their attack on the steamship Ruel, and suggested that they be placed before a tribunal composed of US Navy officers.
Felix's father appealed to the Spanish ambassador to Germany, and won permission for them to return to Russia via neutral Denmark to Finland, and from there to St. Petersburg
The reasons for this break are less clear and simple than those of the split with Austria, but there several key events occurred over the winter of 1799 – 1800 that helped: Bonaparte released 7, 000 captive Russian troops that Britain had refused to pay the ransom for ; Paul grew closer to the Scandinavian countries of Denmark and Sweden, whose claim to neutral shipping rights offended Britain ; Paul had the British ambassador in St. Petersburg recalled and Britain did not replace him, with no clear reason given as to why ; and Britain, needing to choose between their two allies, chose Austria, who had certainly committed to fighting Napoleon to the end.
The ambassador ( with the full backing of the State Department and the CIA ) maintained a firm hold over all military operations conducted within the supposedly " neutral " Kingdom of Laos.
Felix's father appealed to the Spanish ambassador and won permission for them to return to Russia via neutral Denmark to Finland and from there to St. Petersburg

ambassador and Republic
While serving as Haitian ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Lescot fell under the sway of Trujillo's influence and wealth.
* 1976 – Christopher Ewart-Biggs British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
* Ambassador to Russian Federation is Rimantas Šidlauskas, ambassador to the Republic of Lithuania is Vladimir Chkhikvadze.
While the Papal Nuncio in Washington, D. C. serves as the Vatican State's ambassador to the U. S. and the ecclesiastical liaison to the American Roman Catholic Church, the Holy See has designated the Papal Nuncio in the Dominican Republic as the ecclesiastical liaison to the Roman Catholic Church in Puerto Rico.
At one point Prime Minister Vohor punched the PRC ambassador when approached to explain why the flag of the Republic of China was flying over the hotel where the Taiwanese representative was posted.
* July 21 – A bomb kills Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to the Irish Republic.
The Ottoman Empire, and subsequently the Turkish Republic, recognized this role, according to him informally the status of an ambassador.
Foscari, of an ancient noble family, served the Republic of Venice in numerous official capacities — as ambassador, president of the Forty, member of the Council of Ten, inquisitor, Procuratore di San Marco, avvogadore di comun — before he was elected in 1423, thus defeating the other candidate, Pietro Loredan.
When the country in 1960 sent an ambassador to GDR, the Federal Republic withdrew its own.
When, in 1957, the GDR opened an office in Cairo to establish contact with the entire Arab world, the Federal Republic did not withdraw its ambassador from Egypt.
In an effort of bringing more Taiwan-born citizens into government services, Chiang Ching-kuo " exiled " his over-ambitious chief of General Political Warfare Department, General Wang Sheng, to Paraguay as an ambassador ( November 1983 ), and hand-picked Lee Teng-hui as vice-president of the Republic of China ( formally elected May 1984 ), first-in-the-line of succession to the presidency.
The two were supported by the English ambassador in The Hague, George Downing, who despised the Dutch, and reported that the Republic was politically divided between Orangists, who gladly would collaborate with an English enemy in case of war, and a States faction consisting of wealthy merchants that would give in to any English demand in order to protect their trade interests.
The Dominican Republic is represented in Belize through a non-resident ambassador in Santo Domingo and an honorary consulate in Belmopan.
Eventually, he was banished as ambassador to the Mongolian People's Republic.
Hu Shih's tombstone in the park named after him, near Academia Sinica in Taiwan Hu was the Republic of China's ambassador to the United States of America between 1938 and 1942.
While publicly trying to appease tensions between France and the Republic, making ambassador William Temple avow friendship to Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt, he secretly schemed to seduce Louis to a campaign against the Dutch.
" The Batavian Republic, whose economy depended on trade that had been ruined by the war, appointed Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, their ambassador to France, to represent them in the peace negotiations ; he arrived in Amiens on 9 December.
Before reaching Alexandria, his path was blocked by a single, old Roman ambassador named Gaius Popillius Laenas, who delivered a message from the Roman Senate directing Antiochus to withdraw his armies from Egypt and Cyprus, or consider themselves in a state of war with the Roman Republic.
He served as ambassador to Japan, United Kingdom, Thailand, Turkey, People's Republic of China and United States of America and was referred by Nehru as " the best diplomat of the country ".
He was the Indian ambassador to Thailand ( 1967 – 69 ), Turkey ( 1973 – 75 ), and the People's Republic of China ( 1976 – 78 ).
Although the Dutch Republic did not enter into a formal alliance with the United States and their allies, U. S. ambassador ( and future President ) John Adams managed to establish diplomatic relations with the Dutch Republic, making it the second European country to diplomatically recognize the Continental Congress in April 1782.
The father was also an ambassador for the Republic of Venice, and while still a boy Pietro was able to accompany him on many of his travels.
* Melrose Kai-Banya, ambassador of the Republic of Sierra Leone to the Russian Federation

ambassador and Venice
From September 1520 to August 25 he was the Republic's ambassador to Charles V, with whom Venice was soon at war, instructed to defend the Republic's alliance with Francis I of France.
From 1743 to 1744, Rousseau had an honorable but ill-paying post as a secretary to the Comte de Montaigue, the French ambassador to Venice.
In 1432 the Office of Works asked the Florentine ambassador in Venice to enquire after Uccello ’ s reputation as an artist.
In 1620, towards the end of the Twelve Years ' Truce, he travelled as a secretary of ambassador François van Aerssen to Venice, to gain support against the threat of renewed war.
Basset was first introduced into France by Signior Justiniani, ambassador of Venice, in 1674.
The Venetian Senate revoked Barbaro ’ s appointment as ambassador and exiled him from Venice.
While at Venice, she was induced by Lady Wentworth, the wife of the British ambassador, to accompany her to London.
Upon returning to Venice, Michiel was killed by an irate mob, but Dandolo escaped blame and was appointed as an ambassador to Constantinople in the following year, as Venice sought unsuccessfully to arrive at a diplomatic settlement of its disputes with Byzantium.
The death of his friend and master, Simon de Villanova, led him, in 1530, to accept the post of secretary to Jean de Langeac, bishop of Limoges and French ambassador to the republic of Venice ; he contrived, however, to attend the lectures of the Venetian scholar Battista Egnazio, and found time to write Latin love poems to a Venetian woman named Elena.
He represented King Charles IX at the Council of Trent in 1562, but had to retire in consequence of the attitude he had adopted, and was sent as ambassador to Venice, where he remained till 1567, returning again in 1570.
His role was more that of an ambassador and vicegerent of Venice than a vassal to the empire.
When the war between Hungary and Venice was declared, Charles acted as ambassador in 1379, negotiating in the conflict.
He was therefore sent to Italy as a member of Sir Dudley's household and, when the ambassador returned from Venice, he seems to have kept Thomas Carew with him, for he was working as secretary to Carleton, at the Hague, early in 1616.
In 1607 he was appointed chaplain to Sir Henry Wotton, then English ambassador at Venice, where he remained for four years, acquiring a great reputation as a scholar and theologian.
The ambassador of the Republic of Venice, Giovanni Mocenigo, states that Mayenne had warned Henry III that there was a plot afoot to seize his person and to send him by force to Paris.
He was then out of office until again sent to Venice, as ambassador, but during his time there in 1707 and 1708, this negotiations ( to persuade Venice to adhere to the Grand Alliance ) were again unsuccessful.
From 1744 to 1746 he was ambassador at Venice and from 1749 to 1751 he represented his country at The Hague.
His function there was to continue the singing lessons of the mistress of the ambassador of Venice to the Austrian Empire, Pietro Correr.
He told Englishman Richard Eden that he was born in Bristol and carried to Venice at four years of age ; however, he also told Gasparo Contarini, the Venetian ambassador at the court of Charles V that he was Venetian, educated in England.
Venice broke diplomatic relations with Portugal and started to look at ways to counter its intervention in the Indian Ocean, sending an ambassador to the Egyptian court.

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