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Book III Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities, 13 Special Missions

Ivor Roberts

From: Satow's Diplomatic Practice (6th Edition)

Edited By: Sir Ivor Roberts KCMG

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Content type:
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Product:
Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law [OSAIL]
Published in print:
24 September 2009
ISBN:
9780199559275

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2023

Subject(s):
Special missions — Diplomatic missions — Diplomatic privileges — Diplomatic immunity — Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties — Customary international law
13.1 The earliest diplomatic missions in Asia and Africa as well as in Europe were generally temporary diplomatic missions despatched for a particular purpose. It was only in the sixteenth century that the major States in Europe began to maintain permanent diplomatic representation abroad, and it is clear from diplomatic writings of this period that permanent and temporary ambassadors coexisted in a capital without its being thought that the distinction in the duration of their missions implied any difference in their status. But gradually permanent diplomatic...
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