LETTER OF CREDENCE, international law. A written instrument addressed by the sovereign or chief magistrate of a state, to the sovereign or state to whom a public minister is sent, certifying his appointment as such, and the general objects of his mission, and requesting that full faith and credit may be given to what he shall do and say on the part of his court.
2. When it is given to an ambassador, envoy, or minister accredited to a sovereign, it is addressed to the sovereign or state to whom the minister is delegated in the case of a charge d'affaires, it is addressed by the secretary or minister of state charged with the department of foreign affairs to the minister of foreign affairs of the other government. Wheat. International Law, pt. 3, c. 1, Sec. 7; Wicquefort, de l'Ambassadeur, l. 1, Sec. 15.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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Ibani, who was receiving the letters of credence from the Ambassadors of Egypt, Sudan and Tunisia as permanent representatives of their countries to the General Secretariat of CEN-SAD in Tripoli, said Libya has emerged as the leading country of the organisation and has a relevant vision for reviving this regional structure.

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On 2 March Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki received the new Head of the European Union Delegation to the Republic of Macedonia, Ambassador Peter Ingemann Moesgaard Sorensen, who handed Minister Milososki the copies of the Letters of Credence for his appointment.

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