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Diplomatic Immunity

Diplomatic Immunity. What is Diplomacy?. The art or science of managing international relations. Politicians establish a country’s foreign policy and diplomacy achieves it. Methods a country uses to achieve goals in relations to other countries.

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Diplomatic Immunity

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  1. Diplomatic Immunity

  2. What is Diplomacy? • The art or science of managing international relations. • Politicians establish a country’s foreign policy and diplomacy achieves it. • Methods a country uses to achieve goals in relations to other countries. • International summits, work of the U.N. Red Cross.

  3. The Diplomat’s Craft • To be a skilled at diplomacy, an individual must have a keen sense of what to say or do in order to achieve a country’s goals without creating ill will. • Misunderstandings of the diplomatic profession.

  4. Quotes about Diplomacy • “Diplomacy: the patriotic art of lying for one’s country” • “All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.” • “Diplomacy is to do and say/The nastiest thing in the nicest way.” • “A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.”

  5. What is Diplomatic Immunity? • The practice of exempting representatives of a state or sovereign from local law.

  6. Diplomatic Immunity- Grounds/Rationale • Liberty-envoys are the representatives of rulers who hold power, this representative needs to be given complete liberty. • Extraterritoriality: Representatives homes and workplaces, family part of the sending country not the host country. 3. Functional Necessity- Rights and immunities are required so that diplomatic assignments may be carried out safely and independently.

  7. Legal Authority for Diplomatic Immunity • The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961. • The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 1963 • Codification of centuries old customary international law and modernization of that law. • Provide for exemption from local law and paying taxes.

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