Canada–Australia Consular Services Sharing Agreement
The Canada–Australia Consular Services Sharing Agreement (French: Entente de partage des Services consulaires Canada – Australie) is a bilateral agreement between the governments of Australia and Canada for each country to provide consular assistance to citizens of the other in situations which are from time to time agreed between the two countries.[1] The consular services are available in identified locations where only one country has diplomatic representation.[2]
This agreement has been in place since August 7th 1986 when the Right Honourable Joe Clark, P.C., M.P., Secretary of State for External Affairs of Canada and the Honourable Bill Hayden, M.P., Minister for Foreign Affairs of Australia exchanged notes to create the agreement. The agreement was renewed in 2001, specifying in particular 14 Canadian posts[3] (mostly in West African and the Latin American countries[3]) and 13 Australian delegations (mainly in the South Pacific), where consular services are shared.[1]
Australian missions
Canadians can seek consular assistance from the following Australian diplomatic missions:
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Pohnpei (Embassy)
- Covers Guam, Marianas Islands, Marshall Islands, and Palau.
- France ( New Caledonia)
- Nouméa (Consulate-General)
- Covers French Polynesia and Wallis & Futuna
- Indonesia
- Denpasar, Bali (Consulate-General)
- Kiribati
- Tarawa (High Commission)
- Nauru
- Aiwo (High Commission)
- Papua New Guinea
- Port Moresby (High Commission)
- Samoa
- Apia (High Commission)
- Covers American Samoa
- Solomon Islands
- Honiara (High Commission)
- Timor-Leste
- Dili (Embassy)
- Tonga
- Nukuʻalofa (High Commission)
- United States ( Hawaii)
- Honolulu (Consulate-General)
- Vanuatu
- Port Vila (High Commission)
Canadian missions
Australians can seek consular assistance from the following Canadian diplomatic missions:
- Algeria
- Algiers (Embassy)
- Burkina Faso
- Ouagadougou (Embassy)
- Cameroon
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Abidjan (Embassy)
- Cuba
- Havana (Embassy)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Kinshasa (Embassy)
- Dominican Republic
- Santo Domingo (Embassy)
- Ecuador
- Quito (Embassy)
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Reykjavik (Embassy)
- Kazakhstan
- Astana (Embassy)
- Mali
- Bamako (Embassy)
- Morocco
- Rabat (Embassy)
- Nicaragua
- Managua (Embassy Office)
- Panama
- Panama City (Embassy)
- Senegal
- Dakar (Embassy)
- Covers Guinea and The Gambia.
- Tunisia
- Tunis (Embassy)
- Venezuela
- Caracas (Embassy)
- Ukraine
- Kyiv (Embassy)
See also
References
- "Canada-Australia Consular Services Sharing Agreement". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Canada. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
- "Auditor-General—Audit reports for 2014-15—No. 21—Performance audit—Delivery of Australia's consular services: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade". Retrieved 12 January 2021.
- "Committee Report No. 21 - FAAE (42-1) - House of Commons of Canada". www.ourcommons.ca. Retrieved 12 January 2021.