The aim of sound diplomacy … is the maintenance of amicable relations between sovereign states. Once diplomacy is employed to provoke international animosity, it ceases to be diplomacy and becomes its opposite, namely war by another name. (GR Berridge, Maurice Keens-Soper & TG Otte -2001- “Diplomatic Theory from Machiavelli to Kissinger,” Palgrave)
Without prejudice to their privileges and immunities, it is the duty of all persons enjoying such privileges and immunities to respect the laws and regulations of the receiving State. They also have a duty not to interfere in the internal affairs of that State. (Article 41:1, Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961)
One needs only take a cursory glance at the daily media to realize that “non-interference in the domestic affairs of the receiving country” has been observed more in
