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This would have been unrealistic, since reporting on conditions in states of their accreditation has been a recognized function of resident missions since their invention in the 15th century, and they could have hardly done this without meeting with private citizens, albeit usually those confined to the local political, commercial, and financial elites.
The stipulation restricting ‘official communications’ to foreign ministries was designed chiefly to protect the position of such ministries relative to other ministries – not relative to the citizenry in general – and thereby avoid chaos in bilateral relations.