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No we would not. It's an established law and we'll be doing it via the courts. It's ultimately our decision who has an embassy in our country. It's not unprecedented to revoke such status either, it's just this use of the law has only been used once. What international convention would we be breaking?
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The Vienna convention, if I'm not mistaken.
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Why do you keep saying unprecedented? There are several times embassies have been kicked out of a country.
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I suppose they could revoke a person's diplomatic status, or break diplomatic relations altogether. But revoking the diplomatic status of the premises in order to get at someone residing there would be unprecedented.
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Not at will. They are harbouring someone we need to arrest. We will have to go though months or years of process to get them to hand me over or risk being kicked out.
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But the question then becomes how badly we want to arrest that person, and the message it sends out to other countries. It's not going to look good. How do you think the UK would react if another country (say Ecuador), would use similar local laws to arrest someone we'd granted asylum to. I think we'd kick up a mighty storm, and rightly so.
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Originally Posted by Damien
Not at will. They are harbouring someone we need to arrest. We will have to go though months or years of process to get them to hand me over or risk being kicked out.
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Me? Is there something you're not telling us, Damien?
