good point
followed by a deafening silence
for i am a little surprised our extraterritoriality mavens havent responded
nor even gasped out loud yet
for the truth is
even tho your fine point has periodically been made here
as for example in message 8780
i just counted over a 100 messages
& many of them quite recent
in which the essentially meaningless term & status of
extraterritorial or extraterritoriality
has been bandied about as if the extra in it actually meant something
whereas
this extra element
in this particular case
doesnt mean super or additional or supplementary or exceptional or anything of that sort
but really only means
apart from
or outside the scope of
or beyond any possible consideration of
actual geopolitically sovereign territory
or in other words it pretty much means a negation of territoriality
for there simply is no such thing as extraterritorial territory
indeed all these discussions would have been more meaningful if the word had been
extraterrestrial
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Seÿffffe1n O'Connell <gleannmaghair@y...>
wrote:
> Embassies do not have extraterritorial status.
>
> According to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic
> Relations (1961), what they do in fact enjoy is the
> "inviolability of their premises".
>
>
> Cf. "Inviolability: Term referring to two notions:
> one, the personal inviolability of the diplomat; two,
> the inviolability of the premises of the diplomatic
> mission (see Embassy). The inviolability of the person
> means that the diplomat cannot be submitted to any
> form of arrest or detention. The inviolability of the
> premises prevents any police operation within the
> mission unless the prior consent of the head of
> mission has been given (see Privileges and
> Immunities)."
>
> From:
>
> http://www.eda.admin.ch/eda/e/home/publi/diplo.p.html#0007
>
>
> Sean O'Connell
> Vancouver
>
>
> --- "L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@c...> wrote:
> ---------------------------------
>
> I received this from the French conservator of the
> French properties
> on St. Helena about their status:
>
>
> "With reference to your message, I confirm the
> extra-territoriality of the French Properties on the
> island... like an embassy.
>
> regards,
>
> Michel Dancoisne-Martineau
> Conservateur des domaines français de Sainte-Hélène"
>
> LN