What is Ambassador?
An '''ambassador''' is a person sent by the [[government]] of a [[country]] to a different country. The ambassador is the official [[representative]] of their country. The ambassador speaks to officials of the other country about any problems and issues between the two countries. In past years, [[communication]] between countries could take days or weeks. It was necessary to have a person in each foreign capital to have meetings and make [[negotiation]]s between countries. Nowadays, communication is much faster, and often governments can be in direct contact with each other. However, it is still true that many problems need person-to-person meetings, so ambassadors are still needed. Often an ambassador will live in the [[wikt:foreign|foreign]] country for a number of years. An [[embassy]] is where the ambassador lives. Embassies are most often in the [[Capital (city)|capital]] of the foreign country. An ambassador may bring people with him to help him and work at the embassy. Some of the high [[rank]]ing people may be called embassy officials. It is both tradition and law that the ambassador and many embassy officials have [[diplomatic immunity]]. They cannot be arrested or [[prosecution|prosecuted]] in the foreign country. The only possibility is to send a person back to their own country. == Related pages == * [[Diplomacy]] {{Commonscat}} [[Category:Government occupations]] [[Category:Ambassadors| ]]