Editing Diplomatic mission (section)

==Extraterritoriality==
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Contrary to popular belief, diplomatic missions sometimes do not enjoy full [[extraterritorial status]] and are generally not sovereign territory of the represented state. The sending state can give embassies sovereign status but this only happens with a minority of countries.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://integrity-legal.com/legal-blog/miscellaneous/laws-and-rules-regarding-extraterritoriality/ |title=Laws and Rules Regarding Extraterritoriality |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414125434/http://integrity-legal.com/legal-blog/miscellaneous/laws-and-rules-regarding-extraterritoriality/ |archive-date=2021-04-14 |url-status=dead |website=integrity-legal.com |quote=There is a common misconception that Embassies and Consulates have extraterritoriality. As anecdotal evidence of this misconception, people will often say things like, 'the US Embassy sits upon United States soil.' For the most part, this is not the case as extraterritoriality is not conferred upon an Embassy or Consulate, but in some situations extraterritoriality may be created by Treaty.}}</ref> Rather, the premises of an embassy remain under the jurisdiction of the host state while being afforded special privileges (such as immunity from most local laws) by the [[Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations]]. Diplomats themselves still retain full [[diplomatic immunity]], and (as an adherent to the Vienna Convention) the authorities of the host country may not enter the premises of the mission (which means the  head of mission's residence) without permission of the represented country, even to put out a fire. International rules designate an attack on an embassy as an attack on the country it represents.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://diplomacy.state.gov/discoverdiplomacy/diplomacy101/places/170537.htm |title=What is a U.S. Embassy? |website=diplomacy.state.gov |access-date=2014-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180510232505/https://diplomacy.state.gov/discoverdiplomacy/diplomacy101/places/170537.htm |archive-date=2018-05-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The term 'extraterritoriality' is often applied to diplomatic missions, but normally only in this broader sense.

[[File:Diplomatic Corps seal - Corps Diplomatique emblem logo.png|thumb|left|Seal of a [[diplomatic corps]].]]
As the host country's authorities may not enter the representing country's embassy without permission, embassies are sometimes used by [[refugee]]s escaping from either the host country or a third country. For example, [[North Korea]]n nationals, who would be arrested and deported from China upon discovery, have sought sanctuary at various third-country embassies in China. Once inside the embassy, diplomatic channels can be used to solve the issue and send the refugees to another country. See the [[list of people who took refuge in a diplomatic mission]] for a list of some notable cases.

Notable violations of embassy extraterritoriality include repeated invasions of the British Embassy in Beijing (1967),<ref>{{cite news |date=15 August 2012 |title=Sir Ray Whitney |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/9478296/Sir-Ray-Whitney.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/9478296/Sir-Ray-Whitney.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |location=London |access-date=17 August 2015 |quote=Red Guards scaled the British mission's wall as diplomats watched the Ealing comedy ''Two-Way Stretch''. They retreated to an inner room without switching off the projector, pushing a piano across the door as the mob broke windows and began climbing in. Whitney and his colleagues retreated again to the embassy's secure zone, with heavily barred windows. The Chinese set fire to the mission, then used a battering ram on the steel emergency door.}}{{cbignore}}</ref> the [[Iran hostage crisis|hostage crisis at the American embassy in Tehran, Iran]] (1979–1981), and the [[Japanese embassy hostage crisis|hostage crisis]] at the Japanese ambassador's residence in [[Lima]], Peru (1996–1997).