Popular Notions of Embassy Soil and Immunity
In the context of an attack on the embassy of Malaysia in Jakarta, Salleh Buang explores on September 6, 2010 various sovereignty and immunity issues under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. In Assault on our embassy a heinous act, she also touches upon the popular misconception that embassies stand on foreign soil. Their property forms part of the host nation's territory while that nation's jurisdiction ends at the gates to the embassy. Buang's New Straits Times report finally explains the history of locations such as Guantanamo and Vatican City. -- Clemens Kochinke, partner, Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP, Washington, DC.
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