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Consul in Internal Affairs
May an honorary consul display in consular premises election materal favoring a candidate for political office in the host country? This is happening in Boston, Aron Goldstein of News By Us reports in Is the Jamaican Consulate Taking Sides in the Massachusetts Governor's Race? on October 2, 2006 and provides an analysis of the law under Article 55 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Affairs.
Goldstein notes that the consular premises are shared with a business in which the honorary consul serves as general partner. At a minimum, the facts raise the spectre of an appearance of impropriety because the consul appears to inject himself into the internal affairs of the host nation in violation of Art. 55.-- Clemens Kochinke, Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP, Washington.
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