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Breach of Radius or Convention

In US - UK Diplomats Conduct Appalling, an unattributed comment chides diplomats from the United States and the United Kingdom for breaching a travel restriction. The June 8, 2008 comment in the Sunday News of Zimbabwe reports that the alleged violation caused party members to endanger the lives of the diplomats, police had to step in to protect the diplomats, and the diplomats protested their treatment by police as harassment.

The commenter characterized the confrontation:

While Zimbabwe is a signatory to the Vienna Convention on the treatment of diplomats, it is still a sovereign nation with a functioning Government and not a banana republic.
It calls for swift remedial action against perceived childish antics and cheap publicity seeking stunts by diplomats. -- Clemens Kochinke, Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP, Washington.

Sun, 08:39:30 8 Jun 2008 / / Embassy Law Link


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