What is diplomatic mission ? 

The management of communication and relationship between nations by the members and employees of each nation's government is known as diplomacy. A member of employee of a government who represents his/her country in dealings with other nation, especially by working in an embassy or consulate abroad is called a diplomat. All the countries in the world send their diplomats to each other's country for extending their relationship. The countries having friendly relation with each other establish offices for the envoy or ambassador in each other's country. Such offices are called embassy or consulate. This is called diplomatic mission. 

Nepal has friendly relation with 158 countries. Among them, embassies have been established in 26 countries such as India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Malaysia, Egypt, Myanmar, Qatar, Brazil, Canada and so on. In some countries like Hong Kong, Lhasa (china), Kolkata (India), New York (USA), consulates have been opened as per the need. Similarly, 29 foreign countries like Australia, China, Bangladesh, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, UK, Norway, Malaysia, USA, etc have established their embassy in Nepal. It is not necessary to establish embassy in all the friendly nations. Trade relation, citizen's visit and power balance affects the establishment of an embassy. In some of the countries, consulates or offices of the consuls are established. An embassy, established in one friendly country can also be given responsibility to maintain the relationship with other neighboring friendly countries. 

In the embassy, there is an ambassador and other employees of concerned countries. Nepalese ambassador is appointed by the President on the recommendation of Council of Ministers. The exchange of information from one country to another is done through the embassy. The embassy has an important role even during the high level visit. The embassy issues visa to the citizens who want to visit other countries. The embassy has also to be careful to maintain self respect and sovereignty of other countries so that both the countries can maintain good relation. 

Roles of diplomatic mission / Advantages of diplomatic mission 

1. Diplomatic missions have to represent their own country by maintaining diplomatic norms, values and protocol. 
2. They have to present the authentic opinion of the country if any kind of misunderstanding or complaint comes regarding the citizens of the country. 
3. The represent the country while doing any kind of treaty or agreement. 
4. They have to play important role to exchange socio-cultural activities, fairs, conference, etc. 
5. They have to provide the security of their citizens, settle their complaints and work out the solutions and provide necessary help if they want to return to their country.