The implementation of various activities of foreign diplomatic service of each state follows certain traditions, conventions and rules, which is called diplomatic protocol. Diplomatic service became one of the types of public service of the Ethiopian empire, created in order to meet government objectives in the field of foreign policy with the Emperor Haile Selassie I coming to the power. The article discusses the features of the diplomatic protocol of the Ethiopian Empire.

Emperor Tewodros II, Menelik II, Haile Selassie I, Ministry of the court yard, Protocol Department, Embassy