Talk:List of diplomatic missions of Denmark

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Turkey is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia and Thrace (Rumelia) in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. But Cyprus is on Asia why you put Cyprus in Europe?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.244.70.228 (talk) 05:52, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In short Cyprus is a member of the European Union, Turkey isn't. The part of Turkey that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia and Thrace is only a small portion of Turkey's landmass and population. Europeans generally do not regard Turkey as part of Europe. Please see discussion on Category talk:Diplomatic missions by country and contribute your views (preferably with a logon identity). Thank you. Kransky (talk) 12:41, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And Turkey is a candidate country to EU! Morocco couldn't be a candidate because it is on Africa but Turkey will join to EU because it has terrority in Europe! Turkey's population in Europe is more than Greece's population! Because only İstanbul has 15 million people.And there is several provinces in Turkey's Europe part! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.100.254.210 (talk) 17:03, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There is now a discussion at

Sir Tanx (talk) 01:25, 26 December 2008 (UTC)==Malmo and Goteburg - honorary or not?==[reply]

I note the debate concerning whether the consulates in Malmo and Goteburg are honorary or not.

The Danish Government's own website states they are Consulates General, however I suspect they are actually honorary consulates.

Note how the consul in Malmo's email address is for a bank (provinsbanken.se, now Danskebank). Goteburg's email address is an ISP. I cannot find any Danish consulates which call themselves honorary on the web.

So what do we do - make a judgement call based on other official sources (including that of the Government of the receiving party), or rely exclusively on the Danish source? Note that there could be other honorary consulates we have listed. Kransky (talk) 00:50, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kransky, I'm glad you brought up the subject on the status of the Danish consulates general in Malmø and Gothenburg. The Danish MFA did some cost cutting in the 90's and shut down several consulates general including those mentioned above. The CGs were converted into honorary consulates headed by local business men (e.g. Vice President of now Danske Bank as noted above). Based on the following links, it is quite questionable that these two consulates should be honorary:

- http://www.regeringen.se/sb/d/5357/a/41126 Page 5 reads: "* markerar karriärkonsul" which translates into "* denotes career consul". Since there are no "*" next to the names of the consuls general Bertil Fröberg and Magnus Paulsson (which btw are not common Danish names), we may reasonably assume that they are not career consuls but honorary.

- http://www.ambstockholm.um.dk/da/menu/OmOs/Danskekonsulaterisverige In Danish: "Danske konsulater i Sverige / Danmark har 32 honorære konsulater i Sverige" which translates into "Danish consulates in Sweden / Denmark maintains 32 honorary consulates in Sweden".

Since the website of the Danish embassy in Sweden specifically states that the 32 Danish consulates in Sweden are honorary (i.e. also those in Malmø and Gothenburg if you examine the embassy's list of consulates), it would be wrong to claim that they are career consuls.

Sir Tanx (talk) 01:25, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I haven't seen proof that they are honorary consulates. According to the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs they claim them as Consulates-General. If there is any concrete proof that states otherwise, I would be happy to remove them from the list and state them as honorary consulates. Does the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs state anything about diplomatic missions within its country? Regards. Aquintero (talk) 21:24, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Aquintero. The proof is right there in the two links above. http://www.regeringen.se/sb/d/5357/a/41126 specifically states that these two consulates are not career consulates, i.e. they are honorary. Secondly, the Danish embassy in Stockholm specifically states that the consulates are among the other Danish honorary consulates in Sweden. I can't see how this is not proof enough? Best wishes. Sir Tanx (talk) 22:14, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

How does Denmark -- or any other country -- choose where to have no consulate? Piano non troppo (talk) 17:51, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand your question. Kransky (talk) 06:08, 21 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for responding. I was taking a look at the map, and noticed that Denmark has a consulate in some countries, but not in others. There didn't seem to be an obvious pattern. (Although, now that I look, it seems the consulates are in the wealthier countries.) But the question still stands. Why, for example, no consulate in several of the new ex-Russian countries? Or in the upper part of South America? Regards, Piano non troppo (talk) 06:16, 21 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please use the standard format used to list embassies in a country. You'll see that all other countries use a specific format.

Best Sir Tanx (talk) 22:33, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]