Legal Status of Diplomats: Duties, Restrictions, Prohibitions

• Main Author: Tigran Antonovich Zanko
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MGIMO University Press 2014-01-01
• Series: Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta
• Subjects: дипломатическая служба; дипломатический работник; Министерство иностранных дел; государственная служба; государственная гражданская служба; правовой статус; foreign service; diplomatic officer; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; civil service; public civil service; legal status
• Online Access: http://www.vestnik.mgimo.ru/razdely/pravo/pravovoe-polozhenie-diplomaticheskih-rabotnikov-obyazannosti-ogranicheniya-zaprety
• ISSN: 2071-8160

This article provides analysis of such elements of the legal status of diplomats as obligations, prohibitions, restrictions and responsibility. Elements of the legal status are evaluated through the lens of comparative research and include the experience of diplomatic service legal regulation in the former Soviet Union countries as well as in other foreign countries.