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Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle (1818)/Diplomatic Precedence of Ministers Resident

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PROTOCOL of Conference between the Plenipotentiaries of Five Powers of Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia. Signed at. Aix-la-Chapelle, 21st November, 1818.[1]
The plenipotentiaries of the high powers who signed the treaty

Diplomatic Precedence.[1] The Protocol was drawn up in French the lingua franca of diplomacy at the time. This is the translation as laid before Parliament.[2]

424342PROTOCOL of Conference between the Plenipotentiaries of Five Powers of Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia. Signed at. Aix-la-Chapelle, 21st November, 1818.[1]The plenipotentiaries of the high powers who signed the treaty

In order to avoid inconvenient discussions which might arise upon a point of Diplomatic Etiquette, which appears not to have been anticipated in the Annex to the Treaty of Vienna,[3] whereby questions of Precedence were regulated, it is agreed between the Five Courts that Ministers Resident accredited to them shall form, with respect to their Precedence, an intermediate class between Ministers of the Second Class and Charges d' Affaires.

METTERNICH.
RICHELIEU.
CASTLEREAGH.
HARDENBERG.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Hertslet, (No. 89) p. 575.
  2. For French version, see "State Papers," vol. v., p. 1090. (Hertslet, p. 575)
  3. REGULATION of the Eight Powers, concerning the Rank and Precedence of Diplomatic Agents.—Signed at Vienna, 19th March, 1815. (Hertslet (No. 8) pp. 62,575)

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