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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (1963)

Anne Dienelt

Content type:
Encyclopedia entries
Product:
Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

Module:
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
April 2011

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 03 June 2023

Subject(s):
Consular relations — Diplomatic relations — Specific treaties

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1 On 24 April 1963, only two years after the adoption of its ‘sister’ convention, the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961) (‘VCDR’), the UN Conference on Consular Relations adopted the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (‘VCCR’), together with an Optional Protocol on Consular Relations concerning the Acquisition of Nationality (Nationality) and an Optional Protocol on Consular Relations concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes. Before that, the International Law Commission (ILC) had adopted a final draft in 1961. The VCCR codified the...
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