For the extraterritorial parts of the Holy See, see (no pun intended)
the Lateran treaty at
http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/treaty.htm ,
especially articles 13-16. It even goes as far as giving churches
('even outside Rome') a temporary immunity, for the time the Pope is
taking part in a ceremony there, and the church is not open for the
public.
Peter S.
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Mats Hessman <Mats@l...> wrote:
> Grant, soulmate,
>
> I have procured a map of the Sultanate of Oman
> (from www.omnimap.com, by the way), which, apart
> from having Folding Instructions on the back side,
> clearly shows the exclave of Madha as Omani
> territory within UAE. It looks like you can leave
> the main road and turn left into the exclave when
> driving north from main-Oman to the Musandam-fragment.
> On my map only the one town of Madha is shown
> inside the exclave.
>
> Robinson says on virtual exclaves: "Virtual exclaves
> are areas treated as the exclaves of a country of
> which they are not in the strictest legal sense an
> integral part. By the Lateran Treaty of 1929, which
> created the Vatican City State, certain lands and
> buildings in and near Rome were declared extra-
> territorial from the point of view of the Kingdom of
> Italy. While these do not in law form part of the
> Vatical City State, they function as if they did and
> are effectively under Vatican administration."
>
> Catudal cites Robinson, and mentions embassies as
> possible virtual exclaves in addition to the Vatican
> parcels, the Swiss airport of Basel, located in France
> and the Soviet War Memorial in West-Berlin. He says:
> "In the main, these areas represent the limited
> exercise of jurisdiction of one state within foreign
> territory."
>
> Does this help at all?
>
> Mats
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: granthutchison@c... [mailto:granthutchison@c...]
> > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 21:17
> > To: BoundaryPoint@y...
> > Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Enclaves
> >
> >
> > Hi everyone:
> > I'm new to this group, so please forgive my efforts to come up to
> > speed. I've been interested in enclaves for the last ten years,
ever
> > since spending a *lot* of time driving around southern France
looking
> > for Llivia - the French really aren't keen to signpost it, are
they?
> > So: I stumbled across this rather fine eGroup while doing some
> > research for an article about enclaves I'm preparing for a travel
> > magazine - if only I'd known you guys were out here!
> > I've worked my way through the archives, and I think I have a
handle
> > on "fragments" as opposed to true enclaves, but I'm still
slightly
> > bemused about "virtual" enclaves - ownership v. sovereignty -
> > especially when applied to the various bits and pieces that make
up
> > the Vatican City State. Is the idea here that the Vatican _owns
> > property_ in Italy, but these areas still pay Italian taxes and
are
> > subject to Italian law? Somehow I just can't see the Pope paying
> > property tax on Castel Gandolfo ...
> > I'm also interested to know what goes in the Madhi enclave -
> > what sort
> > of place is Madhi? It shows up on my maps as either a town in
> > the UAE,
> > or an empty Omani enclave.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Grant Hutchison
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >