Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

Minister-Counselor

Arabic translation:

وزير مفوَّض

Added to glossary by Noura Tawil
Jan 9, 2014 08:49
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English term

Minister-Counselor

English to Arabic Other Government / Politics Diplomatic rank
In a large mission, several Senior Diplomats may serve under the Ambassador as Minister-Counselors, Counselors, and First Secretaries; in a small mission, a diplomat may serve as the lone Counselor of Embassy.
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Jan 10, 2014 20:43: Noura Tawil Created KOG entry

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وزير مفوَّض

The minister-counselor is a special diplomatic rank defined according to "Glossary of Diplomatic Terms" (http://www.ediplomat.com/nd/glossary.htm#M)
As:
Minister, Minister-Counselor
Apart from its cabinet-officer connotation (i.e. "foreign minister"), a minister has traditionally been a chief of diplomatic mission who headed a legation rather than an embassy. As so few legations are left, the title is now borrowed more and more to designate the second-ranking officer of a large embassy. It has, therefore, come increasingly to mean the senior counselor under the ambassador. To avoid confusion with the old connotation, the United States and a number of governments designate these senior deputy chiefs of mission by the hyphenated title "minister-counselor".

So, it's "the second-ranking officer of a large embassy"

In Arabic terms, I found this ranking to be وزير مفوض in two different governmental references, one from Jordan:
المادة 4
أ-تحدد رواتب موظفي السلك الدبلوماسي وزياداتهم السنوية بالدينار على النحو التالي :-


سفير
وزير مفوض
مستشار
سكرتير اول
سكرتير ثاني
سكرتير ثالث
ملحق
http://www.lob.gov.jo/ui/bylaws/search_no.jsp?no=68&year=199...

And from Sudan:
ترتيب الوظائف.


13- (1) ترتب وظائف السلك الدبلوماسي على الوجه الآتي:

(أ) سفير (حسب درجات الرتبة)،

(ب) وزير مفوض،

(ج) مستشار،

(د) سكرتير أول،

(هـ) سكرتير ثان،

(و) سكرتير ثالث.
http://sjsudan.org/displaylawdetails.php?lawid=259

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Note added at 1 hr (2014-01-09 09:57:56 GMT)
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هذه الرتبة مخصصة للبعثات الدبلوماسية (ومنها السفارات) وتختلف عن الرتب الوزارية المعتادة، وهذه الملاحظة مذكورة في نص المرجع الأول أعلاه. ا
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وزير مستشار

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agree Lotfi Abdolhaleem
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