buritobr
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« on: April 07, 2024, 10:50:38 PM » |
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The are sovereign nation-states who have their law and their law enforcement mechanisms. But the world is an anarchy. The UN is not a nation-state. There is no international law enforcement mechanism which really works.
The principle that an Embassy is a territory of the country of the Embassy and not a territory of the country where the Embassy is located is usually respected because countries usually respect it, but there is no corporation which can guarantee this principle through the use of force, like the police does if you steal something.
So, I think Mexico should do what it can do: cut diplomatic ties to Ecuador. Maybe, other Latin American countries should do this. None have power to enforce the principle of the embassy, but they can use pressure.
There is a long history of respect of diplomatic immunity. The Eastern European front of the WW2 was the deadliest conflict in the history of the mankind. But in June 1941, both the staff of the Soviet Embassy in Berlin and the German Embassy in Moscow were neither arrested nor executed. They could return home.
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