Foreign honorary consuls in Vietnam may conduct professional or profit-making commercial operations in Vietnam
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Diplomatic missions in Vietnam This noticeable content is prescribed in Decree No. 26/2022/ND-CP dated 14 April 2022 by the Government on foreign honorary consuls in Vietnam, taking effect from 01 June 2022.
Accordingly, an individual shall only be appointed as a honorary consul in Viet Nam if he/she meets the following conditions:
i) bearing the nationality of the sending State or the Vietnamese nationality. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall reserve the right to accept honorary consular officers if he/she bears the nationality of a third country or several countries. The acceptance may be revoked at any time without justifying the reason. In this situation, the ministry shall send a diplomatic note to the appointing country.
ii) permanently residing in Vietnam or living and working in the consular premises for at least one year.
iii) neither being a Vietnamese cadre, civil servant, public employee nor an individual who receives wage from the State budget of any country.
iv) having a clear judicial record; being financially capable, social prestige, etc.
Especially, honorary consuls may exercise consular functions as appointed by the sending State and concurrently conduct professional or profit-making commercial operations in Vietnam in accordance with treaties to which Vietnam and the sending State are contracting parties.
Besides, honorary consuls are not allowed to employ consular couriers, diplomatic couriers or consular bags, diplomatic bags, or cipher telegram to contact diplomatic representative missions or consular posts of the sending State or with the government of the sending State, except for the special cases after obtaining approval from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Family members of honorary consuls are not entitled to privileges and immunities.Tin liên quan
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