Sentences with phrase «diplomatic protection»

In the past, traditional diplomatic protections and customary international law seemed to provide inadequate and uncertain protection for foreign investments.

Mr. Clodfelter served for seven years as the U.S. State Department's Assistant Legal Adviser for International Claims and Investment Disputes and, as a member of the Senior Executive Service, led a large staff of attorneys in providing diplomatic protection of U.S. citizens and companies abroad and in representing the United States in international arbitration proceedings, including eleven investor - State claims under Chapter 11 of NAFTA and eight State - to - State cases.

As of May 2016 the President of Myanmar was driven in an armoured Rolls - Royce Phantom VII limousine, escorted by 20 officers of the Myanmar Police Force trained in diplomatic protection on Harley - Davidson motorcycles and in four Range Rover.

He was an unarmed member of the parliamentary and diplomatic protection squad, with 15 years» service.

Wallis, a former diplomatic protection officer, could be jailed when he is sentenced on 6 February.

«I [also] have diplomatic protection as I hold a diplomatic passport.

@zibadawatimmy The receiving state is the one in which the courier is claiming diplomatic protection.

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Because stateless vessels do not have a flag state, no state can exercise control over them on the high seas or provide diplomatic protection on their behalf.

Wallis falsely claimed in an email to his MP, the Conservative deputy chief whip John Randall, that he had witnessed a confrontation between the then chief whip Mitchell and diplomatic protection officers at the gates of Downing Street on 19 September 2012.

The government of the U.K. has denied a motion to grant Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012 over fears he could be extradited, diplomatic protections.

Without that immediate, and highly plausible, rebuttal, plebgate snowballed into a full scale scandal spawning a resignation, the revelation of a fake eyewitness account, arrests, inquiries, a Channel 4 documentary, a Scotland Yard investigation and demonstrations at the Tory Party conference, and involved the DPP, the CPS, the IPCC, the Diplomatic Protection Group, ACPO and the Police Federation, as well as drawing in all the party leaders, the home secretary and countless MPs.

«The sender is not a member of the public but a serving police officer and member of the diplomatic protection squad, and he was nowhere near Downing Street that night.

The Metropolitan police said in a statement the officer, a member of its diplomatic protection group, was held on Saturday evening but was not on duty at the time.

James Glanville, who was a serving PC in the Diplomatic Protection Group, was arrested in January last year.

The US, like all sovereign states, is entitled to provide diplomatic protection to its citizens.

As to the allegation that the investors had not exhausted local remedies before commencing their claim, the High Court gave consideration to general principles of public international law and, in particular, the guidance contained in the International Law Commission's Draft Articles on Diplomatic Protection.