Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Border conflict solved
Date: Feb 20, 2002 @ 18:23
Author: Beckett, Bob ("Beckett, Bob" <Bob.Beckett@...>)
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> From: shocktm [mailto:andrew@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 1:09 PM
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Border conflict solved
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> > What is, by the way, the exact legal status of embassies? Do
> embassy
> > premises entirely fall under the jurisdiction of the other
> country? We
> > surely don't consider them enclaves, or do we? Are embassies (the
> entire
> > plot) off bounds to host country's police agencies? I have been
> told by
> > someone that this is merely a de facto situation or policy, which
> > doesn't have any legal basis. Can anyone shed any light on this?
> >
> > -Pepijn
>
> Embassies are jurisctical enclaves that are goverend by the Treaty of
> Vienna and agreements between the host county & the guest county.
> These agreements dictate the size of the embassy, where it is
> located, and limits the size if the staff.
>
> Here in the US the embassy must comply with US fire codes but
> everything else about the building is upto the guest country. A few
> years ago Italy built a new embassy in Washington DC. The building
> was built using the metric system and the embassy allows smoking
> inside the building. Neither of these would be possible in any other
> office building in Washington.
>
> Also in the past few years several embassies had fires. The DC Fire
> department went in (with out formal permission IIRC) and put out the
> fires without any problem.
>
> Another interesting thing happened when NATO bombed Serbia. The US
> expelled the Serbian Embassy staff from the Washington Embassy (The
> staff went to the UN Mission in New York City) and turned the embassy
> over to Sweeden for safe keeping. Before the turn over the US Secret
> Service and Diplomatic Police entered the Serbian Embassy to verify
> that no one was there and that there was no fire hazards but could
> not examine any documents or anything else in the embassy. The task
> was carefully monitord and recored to show that the US was not spying.
>
> -Andrew
>
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