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Spring/Summer 2012 Diplomatic List Spring/Summer 2012 DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION 11221 Office of the Chief of Protocol Revised August 2012 --------------------------------------------------------------- For sale by the Superintendent of Documents U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 Preface This publication contains the names of the members of the diplomatic staffs of all missions and their spouses. Members of the diplomatic staff are the members of the staff of the mission having diplomatic rank. These persons, with the exception of those identified by asterisks, enjoy full immunity under provisions of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. Pertinent provisions of the Convention include the following: Article 29 The person of a diplomatic agent shall be inviolable. He shall not be liable to any form of arrest or detention. The receiving State shall treat him with due respect and shall take all appropriate steps to prevent any attack on his person, freedom or dignity. Article 31 A diplomatic agent shall enjoy immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of the receiving State. He shall also enjoy immunity from its civil and administrative jurisdiction, except in the case of: (a) a real action relating to private immovable property situated in the territory of the receiving State, unless he holds it on behalf of the sending State for the purposes of the mission; (b) an action relating to succession in which the diplomatic agent is involved as executor, administrator, heir or legatee as a private person and not on behalf of the sending State; (c) an action relating to any professional or commercial activity exercised by the diplomatic agent in the receiving State outside of his official functions. A diplomatic agent’s family members are entitled to the same immunities unless they are United States nationals. ASTERISKS (*) IDENTIFY UNITED STATES NATIONALS NOTE: The information contained herein was compiled as of July 27, 2012. The names are not in protocol order of precedence. Changes occur daily. The status of personnel listed in this publication should be verified with the Office of Protocol. The Diplomatic List is available free of charge on the Department of State internet web site under: http:/ / www.state.gov/s/cpr/rls/dpl/ The Diplomatic List is available to the public for a fee through the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402 (telephone [202] 512-1800). III National Holidays January 1 .............. Haiti, Sudan, Slovakia June 17 ........................................... Iceland October 1 ............ Cyprus, Nigeria, Palau, January 4 ......................................... Burma June 18 ....................................... Seychelles People’s Republic of China January 26 ........................ Australia, India June 23 .................................. Luxembourg October 2 ........................................ Guinea June 25 ................ Mozambique, Slovenia October 3 ..................................... Germany February 4 ................................... Sri Lanka June 26 ................................... Madagascar October 4 ....................................... Lesotho February 6 ........................... New Zealand June 27 .......................................... Djibouti October 9 ....................................... Uganda February 7 ................................... Grenada June 30 ............................... D. R. of Congo October 11 .............................................. Fiji February 16 ................................ Lithuania October 12 ....... Spain, Equatorial Guinea February 18 ................................... Gambia July 1 .............. Burundi, Canada, Rwanda October 18 ................................ Azerbaijan February 22 .............................. Saint Lucia July 3 ............................................... Belarus October 24 ...................................... Zambia February 23 ...................... Brunei, Guyana July 5 .. Cape Verde, Venezuela, Slovakia October 26 ...................................... Austria February 24 .................................... Estonia July 6 ............................ Comoros, Malawi October 27 ......................... Turkmenistan, February 25 .................................... Kuwait July 7 ................... Nepal, Solomon Islands Saint Vincent and the Grenadines February 27 ............. Dominican Republic July 10 .......................................... Bahamas October 28 ... Czech Republic, Turkmenistan July 11 ......................................... Mongolia October 29 ...................................... Turkey March 3 ......................................... Bulgaria July 14 .............................................. France March 6 ............................................. Ghana July 20 ......................................... Colombia November 1 .................................. Algeria, March 12 ..................................... Mauritius July 21 ........................................... Belgium Antigua and Barbuda March 17 .......................................... Ireland July 23 ................................................ Egypt November 3 ............... Panama, Dominica March 20 ........................................ Tunisia July 26 .............................................. Liberia November 11 ................................. Angola March 21 ....................................... Namibia July 28 .................................................. Peru November 17 ............................... Slovakia March 23 ....................................... Pakistan July 30 ........................................... Morocco November 18 ...................... Latvia, Oman March 25 .......................................... Greece November 19 ................................ Monaco March 26 .................................. Bangladesh August 1 ..................... Benin, Switzerland November 22 ............................... Lebanon August 2 ................................... Macedonia November 25 ............................. Suriname April 4 ............................................. Senegal August 6 .......................................... Bolivia November 28 ........................... Mauritania April 16 ........................................ Denmark August 6 .........................................Jamaica November 30 .............................. Barbados April 17 ............................................... Syria August 7 ............................... Cote d’Ivoire April 18 ..................................... Zimbabwe August 9 .................................... Singapore December 1 .... Central African Republic, April 19 ......................................... Holy See August 10 ......................................Ecuador Romania April 26 ........................................ Tanzania August 11 ........................................... Chad December 2 . Laos, United Arab Emirates April 27 ........................Sierra Leone, Togo August 15 .................. R. of Congo, Korea, December 5 ................................. Thailand April 27 .................................. South Africa Liechtenstein December 6 .................................... Finland April 30 ................................... Netherlands August 17 ..................... Gabon, Indonesia December 11 ........................ Burkina Faso August 20 .................................... Hungary December 12 ................................... Kenya May 1 .............................. Marshall Islands August 24 ...................................... Ukraine December 16 .......... Bahrain, Kazakhstan May 3 ............................................... Poland August 25 .................................... Uruguay December 18 .................................... Niger May 8 ................................ Czech Republic August 29 ..................................... Slovakia December 18 .................................... Qatar May 9 .............................. European Union August 31 ............. Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, December 23 ..................................... Japan May 12 ................................................ Israel Trinidad and Tobago May 14 ......................................... Paraguay May 17 ........................................... Norway September 1 Libya, Slovakia, Uzbekistan May 20 ....................................... Cameroon September 6 .............................. Swaziland May 22 ............................................. Yemen September 7 ...................................... Brazil May 24 ............................................. Eritrea September 15 ..... Costa Rica, El Salvador, May 25 .......................... Argentina, Jordan Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua May 26 ................... Great Britain, Guyana September 16 ................................ Mexico, May 28 ..................... Azerbaijan, Ethiopia Papua New Guinea May 30 ............................................ Croatia September 18 ..................................... Chile September 19 ......... Saint Kitts and Nevis June 1 ................................................ Samoa September 21 ........................ Belize, Malta June 2 ................................................... Italy September 22 ...................................... Mali June 4 ................................................ Tonga September 23 ....................... Saudi Arabia
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