Closing a Mission – Why
An embassy is symbolic because it is a representation of a country on another country’s soil. The land upon which the embassy sits is sacrosanct; it is so entrenched within the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations that there is very little room to dispute the sanctity of an embassy’s premises. When a country decides to close its embassy (for generic purposes, let’s just use the word ‘mission’), it normally does so with a heavy heart. In this article, let’s look…
