Reports from embassies and consulates, intelligence gathering, newspapers and many other formal and informal sources provide the basis for making foreign-policy decisions.
In old age they seldom contact officialdom, whether the social services or their consulate, and look only occasionally for advice or help from immigrant associations.
Accordingly, he decided to make as little use of the consulate as possible.
Ottoman representatives were kept under close surveillance and their access to the vernacular press circumscribed; their requests for opening new consulates were rejected.
The costs of honorary consulates cannot be identified separately, but are included in the cost of relevant supervising posts.
It will be our largest consulate-general in the world, and larger than most of our embassies.
Finally, there is the other non-statutory right to assistance abroad from embassies and consulates.
I feel that perhaps consulates and embassies could do more to help.
