By G. R. Berridge

Starting via discussing the issues of non-recognition and breaches in diplomatic kinfolk, this ebook considers the benefits and downsides of the various tools which international locations now not in diplomatic family, hire once they however have to converse. those comprise intermediaries, disguised embassies, ceremonial events reminiscent of operating funerals, the diplomatic corps in 3rd states and on the seat of overseas corporations, precise envoys and joint commissions. in brief, it truly is fascinated by the type of international relations which produced the rapprochement among Israel and the PLO in September 1993.

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Persollal prestige certainly counts for something in mediation, if Oilly because it is attelltion-grabbing and likely to dissuade the parties from taking the propaganda risks of an immediate rebuff of the individual concerned. Thus the despatch of a distinguislled statesman to mediate in a conflict would be likely to give the negotiation some initial momentum, while tile injection of such a personality into a stalled mediation effort would be likely at the least to give it fresh impetus. ExperieIlce is also obviously of the greatest value, and plenty of national statesmen have had experience of mediation.

For example, in over 50 per cent of breaks in relations involving Britain between 1965 and 1993, interests sections were opened in London - and in two cases where they were not this was because the countries involved had not previollsly maintained embassies there. 1 Interests sections in London, 1965-93: protecting powers, location and size of staff compared with former embassy. Ghana Tanzania Egypt(l) Algeria Sudan Sudan Iraq Iceland Argentina Libya Syria Iran (3) Iraq Period Protecting power 1965-6 1965-8 1965-7 1965-8 1965-6 1967-8 1971-4 1976 1982-9 19841986-90 1989-90 1991- £He Lebanon £HC Canada Iraq/Pakistan fEmb fEmb Kuwait fEmb Kuwait fEmb Pakistan fEmb Mghanistan fEmb Norway fAmbRes Brazil Saudi Arabia Saudi Emb(2) fEmb Lebanon fEmb Pakistan fEmb Jordan Overall averages Location Staffreductions compared with former embassy (per cent) First Lifeti1ne year average 21 60 25/83 71 0 20 64 33 83 92 86 100 95 60 21 30 40 64 0 26 59 33 83 92 82 100 95 56 Key: me, former high commission; fEmb, embassy; and fAmbRes, former ambassadorial residence.

Source: United Nations Treaty Series, 1964, vol. 500, p. 122. interests, and no llnessential actIVItIes on behalf of foreign interests in either peace or war'. ) Apart from a natural disinclination to promote the interests of the protected power above its own, the protecting power's role suffered the other drawbacks of intermediaries discussed in the previous chapter. It is thus not really surprising that when diplomatic relatioIls begall to be severed after the Second World War increasingly for symbolic reasons alone (especially ill the 1960s), certaill states began to exploit the role of the protecting power as a device for permitting their own diplomats to remain itl a COUll try from which they had been legally The 'Disguised Embassy 35 expelled.

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