{"id":88190,"date":"2020-01-10T15:44:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T10:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=12842"},"modified":"2020-01-10T15:44:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T10:14:07","slug":"explained-what-is-protecting-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-is-protecting-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: What is Protecting Power?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Iranian government has registered its protest with the Swiss Embassy in Tehran after the killing of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in a drone attack carried out by the United States.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Protecting Power:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A protecting power is a country that represents another sovereign state in a country where it lacks its own diplomatic representation.<\/li><li>Switzerland represents the interests of the US in Iran.This is because the US itself does not have an embassy there.&nbsp;<\/li><li>In an arrangement such as this,Switzerland is the Protecting Power of the United States interests in Iran.<\/li><li>The instrument of Protecting Powers is provided for under the 1961 and 1963 Vienna Conventions on Diplomatic Relations.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vienna Convention 1961:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961 is an international treaty that defines a framework for diplomatic relations between independent countries.&nbsp;<\/li><li>It specifies the privileges of a diplomatic mission that enable diplomats to perform their function without fear of coercion or harassment by the host country.<\/li><li>It also says that if the diplomatic relations are broken off between two States, or if a mission is permanently or temporarily recalled then the sending State may entrust the protection of its interests and those of its nationals to a third State acceptable to the receiving State.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vienna Convention 1963:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 1963 is an international treaty that defines a framework for consular relations between sovereign states.<\/li><li>The convention says that sending State may with the prior consent of the receiving State and at the request of a third State not represented in the receiving State undertake the temporary protection of the interests of the third State and of its nationals.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Iranian government has registered its protest with the Swiss Embassy in Tehran after the killing of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in a drone attack carried out by the United States. Facts: About Protecting Power: A protecting power is a country that represents another sovereign state in a country where it lacks its own diplomatic representation.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-is-protecting-power\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained: What is Protecting Power?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[5885],"class_list":["post-88190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-protecting-power","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704946938},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}