Governments may undertake and establish special missions in addition to instead of permanent diplomatic or consular missions.\u00a0 They may range in type from missions involving the head of state in person on important political matters to visits by junior officials dealing with more routine matters.<\/p>\n
The legal status of missions will vary.\u00a0 They are governed largely by the rules of customary international law. \u00a0Missions enjoy a range of immunities, but they are not as clear-cut.\u00a0 Controversies can arise in relation to the extent of privileges and immunities.<\/p>\n
The 1969 Convection on Special Missions deals with a matter that has not been widely ratified.\u00a0 It seeks to apply a single standard to all missions which states have found impractical.<\/p>\n
The immunities are broadly similar to those under the Vienna Conventions in respect of diplomatic and consular relations.\u00a0 They are divided into two broad categories with greater and lesser degrees of privilege.<\/p>\n
There are remedies for the abuse of privilege which are similar to those applicable to diplomats.\u00a0 Additional immunities apply to higher-ranking officials such as heads of government and members of government, and others.<\/p>\n\n
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Diplomatic Immunity A key feature of diplomatic law is the immunity of State officials and international organisations from the jurisdiction of other States.\u00a0 The law has roots going back hundreds of years and is highly developed.\u00a0 The modern sources of law are the various Vienna Conventions 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1963 Vienna Convention […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21082,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10403\/revisions\/21082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}