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The chief functions of consular officers are to protect and advance their state\'s commercial interests; to check that their state\'s ships and aircraft are observing its laws and regulations; and (the area for which consuls are probably best known) to perform a large variety of duties relating to the well-being of their nationals - such as issuing passports, solemnizing marriages, visiting nationals in prison, and even making small loans. Consular officers serving outside the receiving state\'s capital city may also report to their state on local conditions - an activity of the sort normally associated with diplomatic missions. And if the sending state does not have a diplomatic mission in the capital, and is not represented there by a third state, consular officers may, with the consent of the receiving state, perform characteristically-diplomatic acts, principally the transmission of communications between the two states. |
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