Consequently, each clause serves as an independent diplomatic and policy message with a noticeable political connotation. This structure leads to a more substantial understanding of the preamble, offers new insights into its messages, and unveils the authors’ masterpiece, which is very different from a typically dry and formal legal document.
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The preamble consists of an opening and closing wording, and five clauses (which could structurally also be viewed as an opening and a closing clause, plus three main clauses). There is a continuous ambition for these aspects to be present on a daily basis in diplomatic practice. It is characterised by tradition, continuity, openness, and flexibility, vibrating respect, mutual consent, and ethics. Last but not least, it cements a broad, clear, and firm legal background for what diplomats do. Consequently, it also reflects the concept of diplomacy, exhibiting a relentless drive for peace, security, and the promotion of friendly relations among nations (the fifth function of a diplomatic mission). We grasp it as a political manifesto of states (the parties to the convention) as it reflects their compliance will maintain international peace and security. The preamble is far from being a mere introduction to the main body of the text of the convention. The philosophy of the preamble to the VCDR helps us understand the interdisciplinary, interrelated, structural, and contextual comprehension of its mission. The preamble to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations This post looks at the VCDR with the aim of discovering what lies in and behind the text, with a focus on the preamble and its philosophy. This means that we face their continual reinterpretation. However, almost by rule, these writings focus on legal and protocol descriptions, and interpretations of both documents.
Hence, they are also interpreted, discussed, and elaborated on by numerous research papers, experts, and empirical views. It is fascinating to see how few international legal documents have since received the unprecedented number of ratifications, and how few are being accepted, respected, and implemented universally.
Having in mind the time sequence, structure, and their correlation, the VCCR derives from the VCDR (compare the third and fourth clause of the VCCR‘s preamble, as well as the second function of a diplomatic mission), but they share a complementarity and not a hierarchical correlation.
Both conventions were adopted and put into force 60 years ago – the VCDR in 1961 (61 signatories) and ratified in 1964 (192 ratifications), and the VCCR in 1963 (49 signatories) and ratified in 1967 (182 ratifications). The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (VCDR), alongside the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (VCCR), presents the very essence of diplomatic and consular law, as well as of diplomatic theory and practice. Milan Jazbec The philosophy of the preamble to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations His article » The philosophy of the preamble to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations« is published in its entirety. Ambassador Dr Milan Jazbec, Professor of diplomacy, poet and writer, employed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia, uniquely and innovatively presents and analyses the prelude to the most known diplomatic document – the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. International Institute for Middle East and Balkan Studies ( IFIMES) from Ljubljana, Slovenia, regularly analyses developments in the Middle East, Balkans and also around the world.
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