Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Border conflict solved
Date: Feb 20, 2002 @ 18:23
Author: Beckett, Bob ("Beckett, Bob" <Bob.Beckett@...>)
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it is mentioned below, so i will ask about it.

what is the status of the united nations in new york city? it has its
own stamp, yet is uses the currency of the united states.

bob

> -----Original Message-----
> 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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