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The city which is a state\'s seat of government. It is, however, possible for the seat of government to be in a city other than the capital (as in the Netherlands); or the government may be divided between two or even three cities (as in South Africa) - in which case the capital may assume a peripatetic nature. Diplomatic missions are almost always based in the capital city, and only in that city. (In the South African case, missions move for some months each year from Pretoria, the administrative capital, to Cape Town, the legislative capital, so that they may have ready access to members of the government during the period when the South African parliament is sitting. In respect of the Netherlands, the receiving state insists that diplomatic missions be at the seat of government rather than in the capital.) Very occasionally, however, it may not be possible for a sending state to establish its mission in the capital, as when it does not recognize the legitimacy of the receiving state\'s occupancy of that city. This occurs in the case of Israel, with the result that almost all diplomatic missions are based not in the capital, Jerusalem, but in Tel Aviv. |
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