Analysis o Consular Affairs under the Vienna Convention (1963)

• Author: Irisi Topalli
• Position: PhD(c), Professional Academy of Business, Tirana, Albania
• Pages: 45-54

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Analysis o Consular Affairs under the

Vienna Convention (1963)

Irisi TOPALLI1

Abstract: Consular relations are based on the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, signed on

24 April 1963 and entered into force four years later, in March of 1967. The preamble of the

Convention on Consular Relations as content as well as form is very similar to Diplomatic

Convention as part stems from it. This Convention is very detailed. It is divided into three chapters:

the first chapter deals with consular relations in general and in two other chapters regulate the

consular offices are headed respectively b y career consuls (chapter two) and they hon or (chapter

three). This topic will treat the appointment of consuls and the end of their functions, the consular

functions and the consular immunity. The method used for the realization of this topic is that of the

analysis and case studies.

Keywords: consular relations; convention; immunity; functions; sending state

1. Introduction

Consular relations are based on the ViennaConvention on Consular Relations,

signed on 24 April 1963 and entered into force four years later, in March of 1967.

The decision for the adoption of the Convention was taken by the General

Assembly of the United Nations which in 1961 he decided to be held two years

later in Vienna, a codification conference which will continue its work based on the

Convention of 1961 on diplomatic relations.

The preamble of the Convention on Consular Relations as content as well as form

is very similar to diplomatic convention as part stems from it. It stipulates that the

rules of customary international law will regulate matters that are not explicitly

rejected by the provisions of this Convention.

1 PhD(c), Professional Academy of Business, Tirana, Albania. Address: Komuna e Parisit Street,

Albania. Tel.: +355673143164. Corresponding author: iris_topalli@hotmail.com.

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