A DIPLOMATS HANDBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND PRACTICE

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It gives me great pleasure to write a foreword to :\1r. Sens excellent book and for two reasons in particular. In the first place in producing it Mr. Sen has done something vvhich I have long felt needed to be done and which I at one time had am bitions to do myself. \Vhen over thirty years ago and after some years of practice at the Bar I first entered the legal side of the British Foreign Service I had not been working for long in the Foreign Office before I conceived the idea of writing or at any rate compiling a book to which (in my own mind) I gave the title of A ~fanual of Foreign Office Law. This work had I ever produced it in the form in which I visualised it could probably not have been published con sistently with the requirements of official discretion. But this did not worry me as I was only contemplating something for private circulation within the Service and in Government circles. :Mr. Sens aim has been broader and more publicspirited than mine was: but its basis is essenIt gives me great pleasure to write a foreword to :\1r. Sens excellent book and for two reasons in particular. In the first place in producing it Mr. Sen has done something vvhich I have long felt needed to be done and which I at one time had am bitions to do myself. \Vhen over thirty years ago and after some years of practice at the Bar I first entered the legal side of the British Foreign Service I had not been working for long in the Foreign Office before I conceived the idea of writing or at any rate compiling a book to which (in my own mind) I gave the title of A ~fanual of Foreign Office Law. This work had I ever produced it in the form in which I visualised it could probably not have been published con sistently with the requirements of official discretion. But this did not worry me as I was only contemplating something for private circulation within the Service and in Government circles. :Mr. Sens aim has been broader and more publicspirited than mine was: but its basis is essenOne Diplomatic Relations Functions and Privileges. I. Historical Introduction. II. Relations between Nations. The right of legation. Position of States not fully sovereign. The Commonwealth of Nations. III. Establishment and Conduct of Diplomatic Relations. Opening of diplomatic relations. Classes of diplomatic agents. Concurrent accreditation of diplomatic agents. Appointment of the head of mission. Agręment. Appointment of a national of the receiving state. Size of diplomatic mission. Appointment of the staff of the mission. Nondiplomatic staff. Attachęs. Offices of the diplomatic mission. Diplomatic agent proceeding to his post. Presentation of credentials and calls. The diplomatic corps and their precedence. Persona grata. IV. Functions of a Diplomatic Agent. Representation and negotiation. Reporting on the conditions and developments in the receiving state. Protection of the interests of the sending state and its nationals. Promotion of friendly relations. Lookin

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