The excuse is that the government closed the Miami consulate after the United States expelled the consul last year.
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Video footage showed the consul general being ushered back to his car by security officials, surrounded by a crowd of students chanting "Get out of Bir Zeit!"
Speaking on Russian state television, the consul-general in Milan, Alexei Parmonov, named the dead as Denis Kravchenko, Irina Kravchenko, Vyacheslav Sleptsov, Yulia Yudina, Lyudmila Yudina and Rafilya Pshenichnaya, AP reports.
More unusually, the honorary consul for Malta works from picturesque Fonmon Castle in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan and the honorary consul for Brazil is a scientist based in a laboratory in Cardiff.
By contrast, the Consul General in Stuttgart, Samuel Honaker, made the visa process "unnecessarily hard, " at least according to letters from Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Pictures and an ardent rescuer, to U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull.
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In Wales, they tend to work out of normal offices and their homes - the honorary consul for Italy is based on a residential street in Canton, Cardiff, for instance, while the Swedish honorary consul is based in a legal firm's office in Cardiff city centre.
Guido De Sanctis, the Italian consul in the city, was travelling in his bullet-proof car when unidentified gunmen opened fire.
But Maria Celina Rodrigues, the Brazilian consul in Paris, said the depth of the ocean would make it difficult for searchers.
They had visited the girl's alleged tormentor at the request of the Swiss consul, who was seeking the man's deportation to Switzerland on a drugs charge.
It seems the ambassador felt compelled to meet with the Turkish consul general that evening for the purpose of damage-limitation following the compromise of the secret weapons pipeline Chris Stevens was then running to Syria.
But the Dominican consul general has said he warned the group's leader, Silsby, about trying to cross the border without proper documents.
The Great British Film Reception was held at the British Consul General's residence and hosted by British Consul General Dame Barbara Hay, the British Film Commission and Visit Britain.
On Thursday, Olmert, Livni and Shas had their bluffs called when the US Consul in Jerusalem Jacob Walles told the Palestinian Al-Ayam newspaper that the government has agreed to give the Palestinians control over most of eastern, southern and northern Jerusalem.
Dignitaries including Bloomberg and Ido Aharoni, the Israeli consul general in New York, will be among the speakers, said a person familiar with the arrangements, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person wasn't authorized to discuss them.
The Algerian consul in Gao and six employees were forcibly taken from the consulate and are being held by unidentified groups, the Algerie Presse Service reported.
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Paul Lynch, the British Consul General in Texas, explains that his office, and the UK government, heard about the case only after Carty's conviction.
With the Swedish consul-general negotiating, this truce was then extended into the next day and from the Prefecture to include other key buildings that had been occupied by the Resistance.
The Russian consul general in Houston, Alexander Zakharov, said he wanted to see the official report from authorities before commenting on the announcement.
Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Gunmen targeted the car of the Italian consul general in Benghazi, Libya, on Saturday as he was leaving the consulate, the latest in a series of attacks targeting foreign missions and security officials in the eastern city.
In 1970, the Japanese Consul-General in Sao Paulo, Nobuo Okuchi, was kidnapped by Brazilian revolutionaries.
The Israeli consul general is set to speak, along with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The Chinese government then sent the deputy consul and vice-consul to meet with city leaders last week.
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Along the way he has been appointed the honorary consul general to Kyrgyzstan.
But instead, relations deteriorated - to the point where the emperor decided to detain the British Consul in Ethiopia and other foreigners.
U.S. officials said that so far Moussaoui has not asked for assistance from the French consul in New York in arranging his defense.
Summit organizers fear a repeat of last November's terror attacks in Istanbul, when four suicide bombers killed more than 60 people, including the British consul.
Mural was Mossad's code-name for David whose cover was a public-school-educated Anglican gentleman, a cordial tennis partner with the British consul, and also possessing excellent security contacts in Casablanca.
In a 2003 attack on the British consulate in Istanbul, a suspected Islamic militant rammed an explosive-laden pickup truck into the main gate, killing 58 people, including the British consul-general.
"We have been pushing quite hard for Olympic teams, " said Clive Williams, who has been the honorary consul for Romania since 2007, chosen because his company has business links there.
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