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consular relations

A state must be in consular relations with another state before it can establish consular posts in that state\'s territory. Such relations are established by mutual consent. They may, however, be broken unilaterally, requiring the closing of all consular posts in both the states concerned.

Consular relations are distinct from diplomatic relations (sense 1). Thus two states may be in consular relations but not in diplomatic relations, and vice versa - although normally the establishment of diplomatic relations implies an agreement to the establishment also of consular relations. Two states whose political relations have been poor, and (probably for that reason) are not in diplomatic or consular relations, sometimes make a preliminary move towards the establishment or re-establishment of diplomatic relations by first establishing or resuming consular relations. This procedure is in the nature of a testing of the political water. Nowadays, however, it is rarely adopted.

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