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letter of introduction

  
     
  Where both the sending and receiving states are of the Queen\'s Realms – that is, where The Queen who is ordinarily resident in Britain is the head of state of both of them – it is not thought possible for a new head of mission to carry a letter of commission addressed by The Queen (as head of state of the sending state) to herself (as head of state of the receiving state). Instead, the head of mission is supplied with a letter of introduction written by the sending state\'s head of government (the prime minister) to his or her counterpart in the receiving state. This letter is not deemed to be a formal document and therefore, in being described, is referred to with the first letters of the words ‘letter’ and ‘introduction’ in lower case (unlike the usual letters relating to accreditation, which attract capital letters). Such a head of mission, being from one Commonwealth state to another, will be called a high commissioner. This form of accreditation was adopted in the early 1950s, when the adoption of letters of commission for the exchange of heads of mission between certain Commonwealth states focused attention on the fact that as between other such states there was no standard form of accreditation for heads of mission. It emerged that some heads were supplied with a letter from their prime minister to the receiving state\'s prime minister; others with a letter from their foreign minister to the receiving state\'s foreign minister; and yet others with no form of accreditation at all. The general adoption of a letter of introduction by the relevant states thus tidied up this aspect of diplomatic procedure. See also letters of recall.


The term used by Britain for the credentials given to her permanent representatives to international organizations. 		 
 

 

 

  
 
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