Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations

courts and the abuse of such privilege granted to diplomatic persons. This also prompted the British

counterpart, diplomatic asylum, is applicable where the person seeking asylum is outside the territory of the country granting it, mainly within its diplomatic territory. Diplomatic asylum is applicable only when the individual is wanted for political crimes. From outset it lead to political friction due to its infringement on the receiving country’s sovereignty. In practice it comes down to a balancing act between the receiving country’s sovereignty and the granting state’s diplomatic sanctity.

The growing scope and complexity of international terrorism, particularly the threat to diplomats and diplomatic facilities, has caused widespread concern among members of the international community and prompted a lively debate on the measures appropriate for their protection. Consideration of this matter, however, has been greatly complicated not only by differing interpretations of the nature of terrorism but by the involvement of states themselves in terrorist activities. Once again, this problem

granted asylum sometimes, with the same end in view, requests that a safe-conduct be issued to refugee. 3. Caracas Convention (1954): The decision of the International Court Haya de la Torre led to some dissatisfaction among Latin-American countries. As such a conference was convened at Caracas in 1954, which drew up an Inter-American Convention on Diplomatic asylum. The Convention established the controlling rights of the asylum granting state to categorize the nature of offences for which the fugitive’s

have benefited from diplomatic immunity via the diplomatic bag. For example, a Venezuelan general wanted in the United States on drugs charges and arrested in Aruba was released after the Venezuelan government protested his diplomatic immunity and threatened sanctions if Aruba did not release him It is of note that the Sterling submachine gun used to shoot dead WPC Yvonne Fletcher from inside the Libyan Embassy in London was smuggled out of the United Kingdom in one of 21 diplomatic bags in 1984 . In

Correspondence to the U.S. Department of State: The record of diplomatic relations between our two nations contains a storied past including notably during the years of the Cold War, recent actions and statements by the United States demonstrate the intent of U.S. leadership to use U.S.-Russian relations as a point of deflection for the political turmoil exposed in and through the recent presidential election. President Putin's ultimatum for U.S. diplomatic staff reduction in Russia provides a measured response

Arguments by the UK: The United Kingdom of England and Northern Ireland believes that Ecuador has no legal right or basis to grant political or diplomatic asylum to Assange for various legal reasons that the Court is set to debate. First, the United Kingdom’s involvement in the topic comes from their obligation to extradite Julian Assange to Sweden under Article 35, Clause 3 of the Extradition Act of 2003. Since Sweden has filed for an EAW that has been approved by the UK, the UK is under a formal

thirteen then and I was fascinated by the whole thing. The travel, adventure, and the opportunity to have a front seat to history, which is the main reason why I joined the Marine Corps in the first place. The study and practice of International Relations have always a hobby for me, I never believed that I could find a way to make it a profession.

In order to invoke the right the burden of proving the right ensues from one of the two exceptions set out in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph 1. Throughout the development of the Article and until the Vienna Conference, there had been various attempts to reverse the presumption. These have been discussed below to prove the necessity of having inserted the general rule against unilateral denunciation. Objections to the presumption state that this rule

diplomatica’ or ‘diplomatic business’, but from 1796 this term actually starts to be used for management of international relations (used firstly by Edmund Burke, England). Italy started with first embassies. In 1455 Francesco Sforiza, Duke of Milan established an embassy in Genoa, in 1496 in London and 1460 in Rome. In 1519 sir Thomas Boleyn and Dr. West are becoming first British ambassadors in Paris. Three centuries after, first diplomatic hierarchy was established and this was done at Vienna Congress