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  Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of April 18, 1961   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In cases where no member of the diplomatic staff of the mission is present in the receiving State, a member of the administrative and technical staff may, with the consent of the receiving State, be designatedby the sending State to be in charge of the current administrative affairs of the mission.
The diplomatic courier, who shall be provided with an official document indicating his status and the number of packages constituting the diplomatic bag, shall be protected by the receiving State in the performance of his functions.
A diplomatic bag may be entrusted to the captain of a commercial aircraft scheduled to land at an authorized port of entry.
www.offshore-manual.com /ViennaDiplomatic.html   (5608 words)

  
 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - e Diplomat
Subject to the provisions of the present Convention, the formalities for the appointment and for the admission of the head of a consular post are determined by the laws, regulations and usages of the sending State and of the receiving State respectively.
The names of members of a diplomatic mission assigned to the consular section or otherwise charged with the exercise of the consular functions of the mission shall be notified to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the receiving State or to the authority designated by that Ministry.
The privileges and immunities of the members of a diplomatic mission referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article shall continue to be governed by the rules of international law concerning diplomatic relations.
www.ediplomat.com /nd/treaties/consular_relations.htm   (7959 words)

  
 Consular Privileges and Immunities Amendment Bill 2005 (Bills Digest, no. 141, 2004-05)
The distinction between consular and diplomatic functions is, broadly speaking, that the former are primarily technical whilst the latter are political or representative.
This justification is cited in the preambles to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
Diplomatic immunity is thus part of diplomatic law, and is an exception to the general international law rule of territorial jurisdiction.
www.aph.gov.au /Library/Pubs/bd/2004-05/05bd141.htm   (1769 words)

  
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Article 17 The precedence of the members of the diplomatic staff of the mission shall be notified by the head of the mission to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs or such other ministry as may be agreed.
In cases where no member of the diplomatic staff of the mission is present in the receiving State, a member of the administrative and technical staff may, with the consent of the receiving State, be designated by the sending State to be in charge of the current administrative affairs of the mission.
Except insofar as additional privileges and immunities may be granted by the receiving State, a diplomatic agent who is a national of or permanently resident in that State shall enjoy only immunity from jurisdiction, and inviolability, in respect of official acts performed in the exercise of his functions.
fletcher.tufts.edu /multi/texts/BH408.txt   (4043 words)

  
 VIENNA CONVENTION ON CONSULAR RELATIONS
The consent given to the establishment of diplomatic relations between two States implies, unless otherwise stated, consent to the establishment of consular relations.
In communicating with the Government, the diplomatic missions and other consular posts, wherever situated, of the sending State, the consular post may employ all appropriate means, including diplomatic or consular couriers, diplomatic or consular bags and messages in code or cipher.
Convention or on the thirtieth day following the date of deposit of the second instrument of ratification of or accession to the Protocol with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, whichever date is the later.
www.migracioninternacional.com /docum/vienna_i.html   (8898 words)

  
 PLO Vignette @ NaturalResearch.org (Natural Research)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The population in the West Bank and Gaza Strip saw Arafat as their best hope for a resolution to the conflict, especially in the aftermath of the Camp David Accords, which Palestinians had seen as a blow to their aspirations to self-determination.
Abu Nidal, a sworn enemy of the PLO since 1974, assassinated the PLO's diplomatic envoy to the European Economic Community, which in the Venice Declaration of 1980 had called for the Palestinian right of self-determination to be recognized by Israel.
Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions (1949), which has not been universally accepted in whole as international law, particularly not by Israel and the United States offers support for this view.
www.naturalresearch.org /encyclopedia/PLO   (3376 words)

  
 treaty - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about treaty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Treaties are binding in international law, the rules being laid down in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 1969.
In an international legal system such as that established by the combination of the United Nations charter and the Kellogg–Briand Pact (1928), which in law prohibited war and the use of force (other than in very limited circumstances), such a rule has undergone modification.
The law of treaties generally has undergone significant development and codification since the establishment of the United Nations Organization, culminating in the Vienna Convention (1969) on the law of treaties.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /treaty   (1032 words)

  
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With a view to facilitating the exercise of consular functions relating to nationals of the sending State: (a) consular officers shall be free to communicate with nationals of the sending State and to have access to them.
In the exercise of consular functions a diplomatic mission may address: (a) the local authorities of the consular district; (b) the central authorities of the receiving State if this is allowed by the laws, regulations and usages of the receiving State or by relevant international agreements.
Article V The present Protocol shall be open for signature by all States which may become Parties to the Convention as follows: until 31 October 1963 at the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria and, subsequently, until 31 March 1964, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
fletcher.tufts.edu /multi/texts/BH444.txt   (6904 words)

  
 Foreign Missions and International Organizations Act   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
(4) The reference in paragraph 1 of Article 41 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations to a "grave crime" shall be construed as a reference to any offence created by an Act of Parliament for which an offender may be sentenced to imprisonment for five years or more.
A diplomatic agent who employs persons to whom the exemption provided for in paragraph 2 of this Article does not apply shall observe the obligations which the social security provisions of the receiving State shall impose upon employers.
Except in so far as additional privileges and immunities may be granted by the receiving State, a diplomatic agent who is a national of or permanently resident in that State shall enjoy only immunity from jurisdiction, and inviolability, in respect of official acts performed in the exercise of his functions.
laws.justice.gc.ca /en/F-29.4/60242.html   (6504 words)

  
 VIENNA CONVENTION ON CONSULAR RELATIONS AND OPTIONAL PROTOCOLS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The receiving State shall exempt members of the consular post and members of their families forming part of their households from all personal services, from all public service of any kind whatsoever, and from military obligations such as those connected with requisitioning, military contributions and billeting.
Every member of the consular post shall enjoy the privileges and immunit ies provided in the present Convention from the moment he enters the territory of the receiving State on proceeding to take up his post or, if already in its territory, from the moment when he enters on his duties with the consular post.
The present Convention shall remain open for accession by any State belongi ng to any of the four categories mentioned in Article 74.
www.crdental.net /vienna.htm   (8737 words)

  
 VIENNA CONVENTION ON DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The immunity of a diplomatic agent from the jurisdiction of the State does not exempt him from the jurisdiction of the sending State.
Waiver of immunity from jurisdiction in respect of civil or administrative proceedings shall not be held to imply waiver of immunity in respect of the execution of the judgement, for which a separate waiver shall be necessary.
The States Parties to the present Protocol and to the Vienna Ccnventicn on Diplomatic Relations, hereinafter referred to as "the Convention", adopted by the United Nations Conference held at Vienna from 2 March to l4 April 1961,
www.un.int /usa/host_dip.htm   (5224 words)

  
 U.S. Embassy Belarus - Drozdy Residence Dispute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The diplomatic dialogue that ensued to persuade the Belarusian authorities to reverse their decision, clearly in violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the valid leases signed by respective foreign missions and the government of Belarus, was followed by a string of deadlines set by the Belarusian government, unacceptable for their categorical form.
The centuries old tradition codified in the Vienna Convention is that diplomats need to be able to live and work free from intimidation.
U.S. Ambassador Daniel Speckhard and his diplomatic neighbors in Belarus are prepared to defy orders by the Belarussian government to vacate their ambassadorial residences in a leafy suburb of the capital, Minsk, today...
minsk.usembassy.gov /html/drozdy_dispute.html   (1902 words)

  
 A/RES/41/79. Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Reaffirms its conviction that the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations has played, for over twenty-five years, and will continue to play an essential role in promoting co-operation and understanding among States, in creating normal conditions for the activities of diplomatic missions and representatives and in the progressive development of international law in this field; 2.
Calls upon all States to observe strictly the provisions of the Convention in order to create an appropriate atmosphere essential for the normal discharge by diplomatic missions of their functions; 6.
Urges all States to take effective action at national and international levels to suppress terrorist and other acts of violence against diplomatic missions and representatives, to prosecute without delay the perpetrators of such acts and, in accordance with the Convention, to avoid abuses of diplomatic privileges and immunities.
www.un.org /documents/ga/res/41/a41r079.htm   (202 words)

  
 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of April 24, 1963   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of April 24, 1963
Considering that the United Nations Conference on Diplomatic Intercourse and Immunities adopted the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations whichwas opened for signature on 18 April 1961,
The severance of diplomatic relations shall not ipso facto involve the
www.offshore-manual.com /ViennaConsular.html   (9214 words)

  
 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations
The sending State must make certain that the agrement of the receiving State has been given for the person it proposes to accredit as head of the mission to that State.
The receiving State is not obliged to give reasons to the sending State for a refusal of agrement.
when such a courier has delivered to the consignee the diplomatic bag in his charge.
www.is.svitonline.com /kolob/dp_eng.htm   (4528 words)

  
 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 1963, Article 36
Recalling that consular relations have been established between peoples since --ancient times,...
The rights referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall be exercised in conformity with the laws and regulations of the receiving State, subject to the proviso, however, that the said laws and regulations must enable full effect to be given to the purposes for which the rights accorded under this Article are intended."
The Convention is accompanied by an Optional Protocol Concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes, to which these three states are also parties.
www.law.nyu.edu /kingsburyb/fall01/intl_law/viennaconvention.html   (584 words)

  
 Vienna Convention
(b) furthering the development of commercial, economic, cultural and scientific relations between the sending State and the receiving State and otherwise promoting friendly relations between them in accordance with the provisions of the present Convention;
Article VI The present Protocol shall enter into force on the same day as the Convention or on the thirtieth day following the date of deposit of the second instrument of ratification of or accession to the Protocol with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, whichever date is the later.
The information on this web-site is provided as a public service, but we cannot guarantee that the information is current or accurate.
www.ukrchicago.com /laws/viennconv.html   (9131 words)

  
 Legal & Regulatory Information Menu Page - Consular Affairs
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www.voyage.gc.ca /main/legal/legal_menu-en.asp   (190 words)

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