Though there is no sign on the door, this is a touring "consulate on wheels", staffed by Mexican consuls based in Atlanta.
The environment minister Greg Hunt visited German environment minister and world heritage committee chair Maria Boehmer in January and Senate estimates heard on Thursday that ambassadors in all of the 21 countries on the committee had been enlisted in the lobbying effort, as well as consuls general and other staff.
"Surely you are not suggesting that it is not the role of Australian consuls general or department of foreign affairs employees generally to promote the interests of Australian business," he asked Waters.
Western visitors, like the British consuls who observed it in the 19th century, have dismissed it as an exotic and dangerous show; there was a fatal stampede in 1834.
"IN A way an honorary consul is more difficult to get rid of than a career man," wrote Graham Greene in his novel "The Honorary Consul", charting the misadventures of an alcoholic Englishman of minor diplomatic rank in Argentina.Honorary consuls are recognised in international law and theoretically enjoy the same privileges as career diplomats.
New trade routes also generate demand for honorary consuls.
This is imaginative, sensible, and perhaps the only way to resolve this central part of the confrontation in the Middle East.This would presumably mean that sovereignty would reside with a trio of representatives of the three faiths, perhaps entitled consuls in the ancient sense of supreme magistrates.
It had executives (in the shape of two annually elected consuls), an elite in the senate, and outlets for the vox populi in the popular assemblies.To this Roman ideal of republicanism the thinkers of the Enlightenment added more liberal notions of freedom.
Other honorary consuls have done less well.
The two consuls possessed equal power.
He legislated, designated consuls, and retained precedence.
