Subject: Re: SMOM<br/>
Date: Jan 27, 2003 @ 19:59<br/>
Author: Joachim Duester &lt;jduester@pobox.com&gt; (&quot;Joachim Duester &lt;jduester@...&gt;&quot; &lt;jduester@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1030375218">--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;John Seeliger&quot; &lt;jseelige@a...&gt;<br/>
wrote:<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; So, does this imply that a person born in the X embassy to country<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Y, was<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; not in fact born in X?  For example, a person born in the US embassy to<br/>
&gt; Italy.  <br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>A person born in the premises of the US embassy in Rome is of course<br/>
born in Italy! <br/>
<br/>
Please remember also that in most countries of the world, nationality<br/>
is inherited from the parents (ius sanguinis), not acquired through<br/>
(possibly just accidental) birth in a particular country (ius solis).<br/>
The son of an Afghani father born in Guantanmo would automatically<br/>
inherit Afghani nationality from his father. If Cuba would follow the<br/>
ius solis (which I don&#39;t know but which I don&#39;t consider likely), the<br/>
child might have both Afghani and Cuban nationality from birth. But<br/>
most ius soli countries require more conditions to be fulfilled than<br/>
just accidental birth on its territories, so one would have to look<br/>
into Cuban nationality laws more closely.<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Also, I recall that Churchill signed a proclamation making a certain<br/>
&gt; hospital room Yugoslavian territory for a day after the war so that<br/>
 </span></blockquote>the heir<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; apparent to the Yugoslavian throne could in fact be born in that<br/>
 </span></blockquote>country.<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.royalfamily.org/family/hrhcpa_bio.htm">http://www.royalfamily.org/family/hrhcpa_bio.htm</a><br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>A nice story, but bloody nonsense, if you permit, from a legal point<br/>
of view. To cede any part of the United Kingdom to a foreign country,<br/>
it would require an Act of Parliament, not just permission from the<br/>
Prime Minister. Probably this was just a verbal courtesy to please the<br/>
exiled family. And a hospital room is not &quot;territory&quot;, only perhaps<br/>
the plot the hospital is built on.<br/>
<br/>
Joachim Duester</div>