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The High Commission of the United Kingdom in New Delhi is the diplomatic mission of the United Kingdom in India. [1] It is located at Shantipath in Chanakyapuri.. The British High Commission in New Delhi covers consular services for Northern India, namely, Delhi and the states of Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttarakhand.
This is a list of diplomatic missions in India. There are 157 embassies/high commissions in New Delhi, and many countries maintain consulates in other Indian cities. [1] Most of these diplomatic missions in Delhi are located in Chanakyapuri diplomatic enclave.
British High Commission – New Delhi Countries belonging to the Commonwealth of Nations exchange high commissioners rather than ambassadors . Though there are a few technical differences (for instance, whereas ambassadors present their diplomatic credentials to the host country's head of state , high commissioners are accredited to the head of ...
He also said that by 2015, the UK would have opened up to eleven new embassies and eight new Consulates or Trade Offices. [3] In 2013, a UK government office was established in Seattle . [ 4 ] In 2014, all services at the former UK Consulate in Orlando were transferred to the nearby UK Consulate-General in Miami . [ 5 ]
The heads of British diplomatic missions are persons appointed as senior diplomats to individual nations, or international organizations. They are usually appointed as ambassadors , except in member countries of the Commonwealth of Nations where a high commissioner is appointed.
His Majesty's Diplomatic Service (HMDS) is the diplomatic service of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, dealing with foreign affairs and representing British interests overseas, as opposed to the Home Civil Service, which deals with domestic affairs.
A British High Commission is a British diplomatic mission, equivalent to an embassy, found in countries that are members of the Commonwealth of Nations. Their general purpose is to provide diplomatic relationships as well as travel information, passports, dual-citizenship information, and other services between Commonwealth states.
Chanakyapuri (Sanskrit: चाणक्यपुरी, romanized: Cāṅakyapurī) is a neighbourhood and diplomatic enclave established in the 1950s in New Delhi, India. [1] [2] [3] It is also a sub-division of the New Delhi district and plays host to the majority of foreign embassies in New Delhi.