Embassy
A embassy is a diplomatic representation of a State near an other. Place where the buildings of this activity are established.
An embassy is regarded as belonging to the national territory of the Pays to which it belongs, it is inviolable. There consequently, the Pays host cannot in no case to penetrate to carry out a Perquisition or any intrusion, which would be regarded as a declaration of war. This basic right was used much by the Pays of Latin America which used their embassies abroad to accommodate political refugees there.
n. F. 14th century, initially ambaxade. Borrowed of Italian ambasciata, who goes up with a Germanic word of Gallic origin Ambactos, “that which leads; envoy around”.
See too
- Ambassador
- French Representations in the world
- Swiss Representations in the world
- Extraterritoriality
Simple: Embassy
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