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envoy:

Valeriy Egoshkin, Russian envoy to the UN-HABITAT (Mrs. Anna Jibaijuka (L), Executive Director, UN-HABITAT)

an important person sent by the government of a country to another as a messenger regarding a particular high level issue;

(also called ‘envoy extraordinary’ or ‘minister plenipotentiary’) an official in the foreign service (embassy) of a country second in rank to an ambassador;

Vabah Gayflor (L), Liberian envoy, handing over a special message from her President to Gambian leader, Dr. Alhaji Yahya Jammeh

an emissary; a messenger

[The word 'envoy', also with the spelling 'envoi', is used to refer to a short closing stanza of a poem; and to the concluding part of a prose/text or play (drama).]

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