"So we may never know what they wanted," said Mary Ryan, assistant secretary for consular affairs and head of the State Department team.

His responsibilities included consular affairs, promoting American business, political and economic reporting, labor affairs, multilateral negotiation and management.

All consular affairs are dealt with by individual Member States.

Then he served as information officer and the director of legal and consular affairs at the ministry of foreign affair until 1970.

It is charged with maintaining the consular affairs and foreign relations of Serbia.

For more than 30 years he worked on the protocol and consular affairs for the Socialist Republic of Croatia government.

He is also an honorary counsel for Moldova, handling the country's consular affairs in the United States.

As a young woman, Anna assisted her father in consular affairs in the Danish capital.

It's really not an active post in terms of any of the normal criteria: political and economic reporting, narcotics or consular affairs.

"Guatemala is the principal concern that we have," said Catherine Barry, a deputy assistant secretary of state for consular affairs.