AMERICA'S OLDEST CONSUL VICTIM OF BUDGET CUTS.Byline: The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times The American consulate in Bordeaux, France, has ceased to exist, a victim along with 11 other consulates and embassies around the world of federal budget cuts approved by Congress in July. Opened in 1790 under George Washington's administration, it was the first consulate created by the newborn United States of America UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The name of this country. The United States, now thirty-one in number, are Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, , and closed its doors after 205 years of service, interrupted only briefly during World War II. It is the second United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. consulate in France to shut down in recent years, after Lyons in June 1992. Bordeaux was chosen as a first base for a consulate because it had supplied the American rebel colonists with arms (and wine). It was from Bordeaux that the Marquis de Lafayette sailed off to fight in the Revolutionary War, and it was a citizen of Bordeaux, Montesquieu, whose writings inspired the separation-of-powers concept in the United States Constitution. Beginning in February, all affairs relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc Aquitaine, Poitou-Charente, Limousin and Auvergne will be taken over by the consular service consular service, organized body of public officers maintained by a government in the important ports and trade centers of foreign countries to protect the persons and interests of its nationals and to aid them in every possible way. in Paris (2 Rue St.-Florentin, Paris 75001; 43.12.22.22). Consular affairs relating to the Midi-Pyrenees will be handled in Marseilles (12 Boulevard Paul Peytral, 13006 Marseilles; 91.54.92.00). A third consulate, in Strasbourg, continues to cover the eastern part of the country (15 Avenue de l'Alsace, 67000 Strasbourg: 88.35.31.04. |
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