Diplomatic Immunity & Consular Protections

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Snolovania, Fifth Minister of Foreign Relations of the Continental Union
August, 2012
Resolutions of the NationStates World Assembly
Concerning Diplomatic Protections

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It is a matter of policy in the Continental Union and the Continental Alliance to follow all resolutions and customary practices concerning diplomats, embassies, and diplomatic relations. These include protections of immunity and safe passage to any and all duly recognized and credentialed diplomats and their agents. Diplomats in the Regions of the Continental Domains are considered to be under the personal protection of the Regional Founder and are extended the right of Diplomatic Immunity.

Diplomats who engage in any roleplay activities or any other activiities considered beyond the scope of their diplomatic duties acknowledge by their participation in such activities that they are responsible for following the rules, statutes, and regulations governing these activities. Diplomatic Immunity may not extend to these activities. In order to provide protection and diplomatic recognition, ambassadors are required to post a listing in the Continental Domains Profile Registry after they register.

All questions and inquiries concerning diplomats and diplomatic relations can be directed to the Minister of Foregin Relations of the Continental Union. Legal issues concerning activities of all diplomats can be addressed with the Regional Founder and his designated agents. Attached as replies to this topic are copies of the World Assembly Resolutions outlining diplomatic relations and embassies for reference.

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION # 22
Diplomat Protection Act

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Category: Furtherment of Democracy
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Forensatha

REALIZING that that nations can use a variety of methods to restrict a diplomat's ability to do their job.

RECOGNIZING that diplomats are a necessary part of interaction between nations and the spread of cultural understanding.

RECOGNIZING that diplomatic immunity must be agreed upon by the nation the diplomat represents and the nation the diplomat serves in.

DEFINES a diplomat, for the purposes of this resolution, as any member of diplomatic, consular, and other staff serving in an embassy, consulate, consulate-general, legation, high commission, deputy high commission, or other diplomatic mission. This excludes hired personnel with local citizenship.

REQUIRES that all diplomats sent to the World Assembly shall be automatically granted diplomatic immunity.

REQUIRES that nations in which diplomats are serving must provide the diplomat with the best medical care on hand in cases of emergency.

REQUIRES that all diplomats to other nations shall be free from physical harm, execution, sexual assault, enslavement, or use for medical experiments not necessary for medical treatment of the diplomat by the nation in which they are serving.

REQUIRES that any diplomat granted diplomatic immunity be free from prosecution for crimes, search and/or seizure of personal belongings and belongings of family members and personal staff, search and/or seizure of family members and personal staff, seizure of pets, and search and/or seizure of private quarters outside any extraterritorial property by the nation in which the diplomat is serving:

REQUIRES that property agreed upon as extraterritorial or as diplomatic pouches or bags be immune to search, seizure, customs, taxes, vandalism or arson by military or government officials of the nation in which the diplomat is serving, or military assaults by the nation in which the diplomat is serving.

PROHIBITS nations from sending diplomats with the express intent of committing crimes of espionage, sabotage, subversion, causing harm to the civilian population, and other related crimes committed outside of a diplomats duties.

Co-authored by: Cobdenia
Votes For: 5,236
Votes Against: 2,226
Implemented: Sat Oct 18 2008

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION # 164
Consular Rights

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Category: Human Rights
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Topid

Description:

The General Assembly,
Recognizing the existence of diplomatic missions like consulates and embassies which serve as a representation from one nation
to another;

Understanding in many nations the laws may be confusing to understand for a common citizen from another culture and that a representative from the diplomatic mission of one's home nation may make the law more clear;

Realizing that nations may also accuse a citizen of a crime falsely and that governments way want to hear evidence from the citizen that he or she is being falsely accused so the government may protect its citizens abroad;

Knowing that those citizens of a nation convicted of a crime in another nation may also wish to speak to a representative from their home nation's diplomatic mission to inform their government on conditions within the prison or to seek advice on appeals;

Hereby defines for the purposes of this resolution:

The "home nation" as the nation the accused holds citizenship in;

The "host nation" as the nation that has accused or convicted the foreigner of a crime;

A "diplomatic mission" as an embassy, consulate, or other formal representation of the home nation;

Declares a person charged of a crime while in a member nation as a non-citizen has the right to meet with a representative from their home nation's diplomatic mission within a host nation, should such a diplomatic mission exist;

Allows host nations to require these meetings to occur off of the actual grounds of the diplomatic mission, to prevent a situation where the accused refuses to leave the building the host nation is not allowed to access;

Encourages nations to staff diplomatic missions with legal experts in the host nation's laws to be able to advice their citizens accused of a crime within the host nation;

Further declares that foreigners convicted of crimes and imprisoned within member states have the right to meet with a representative of their home nation's diplomatic mission privately, within the prison, once per year, should such a diplomatic mission exist.

Votes For: 9,325
Votes Against: 1,118
Implemented: Wed Sep 7 2011