Editing Diplomatic mission (section)

==Role==
[[File:Korean polling station Helsinki.jpg|thumb|The Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Helsinki [[Right of expatriates to vote in their country of origin|functioning as a polling station]].]]
The basic role of a diplomatic mission is to represent and safeguard the interests of the home country and its citizens in the host country.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Functions of a Diplomatic Mission|url=http://www.ediplomat.com/nd/functions.htm|access-date=2022-01-06|website=e Diplomat|archive-date=2022-01-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126202233/http://www.ediplomat.com/nd/functions.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> According to the 1961 [[Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations]], which establishes the framework of diplomacy among sovereign states:<blockquote>The functions of a diplomatic mission consist, ''inter alia'', in representing the sending State in the receiving State; protecting in the receiving State the interests of the sending State and of its nationals, within the limits permitted by international law; negotiating with the Government of the receiving State; ascertaining by all lawful means conditions and developments in the receiving State, and reporting thereon to the Government of the sending State; promoting friendly relations between the sending State and the receiving State, and developing their economic, cultural and scientific relations.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/9_1_1961.pdf |title=Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relationships, article 3 |access-date=2014-09-27 |archive-date=2019-11-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191111183208/http://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/9_1_1961.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref></blockquote>

Diplomatic missions between members of the [[Commonwealth of Nations]] are not called embassies, but [[high commission (Commonwealth)|high commission]]s, for Commonwealth nations share a special diplomatic relationship. It is generally expected that an embassy of a Commonwealth country in a non-Commonwealth country will do its best to provide diplomatic services to citizens from other Commonwealth countries if the citizen's country does not have an embassy in that country. Canadian and Australian nationals enjoy even greater cooperation between their respective consular services, as outlined in the [[Canada-Australia Consular Services Sharing Agreement]]. The same kind of procedure is also followed multilaterally by the member states of the [[European Union]] (EU). European citizens in need of consular help in a country without diplomatic or consular representation of their own country may turn to any consular or diplomatic mission of another EU member state (art. 23 [[Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union|TFEU]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/consular-protection/ |title=European Council – Consular protection |access-date=2023-06-19 |archive-date=2023-06-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230619132851/https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/consular-protection/ |url-status=live }}</ref>