<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;line-height:18px;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;font-size:1.077em;clear:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Yes - but the 1987 act, creating the power to <a href="http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1987/may/14/diplomatic-and-consular-premises-bill#S5LV0487P0_19870514_HOL_414" style="color:rgb(74,113,148);line-height:16px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold">revoke the status of a diplomatic mission,</a> was passed by Parliament in the wake of the Libyan embassy crisis three years before, when PC Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead with a bullet fired from inside the embassy.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;line-height:18px;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;font-size:1.077em;clear:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Ministers said they needed powers to revoke an embassy's status where the mission was not being used for a proper purpose connected to diplomacy.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;line-height:18px;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;font-size:1.077em;clear:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The then Foreign Office Minister, Baroness Young, told the Lords at the time that the government had in mind a situation where a mission "was being used... in support of terrorist activity". In other words, the power was needed for exceptional circumstances.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;line-height:18px;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;font-size:1.077em;clear:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Taken from: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18521881" style="background-color:transparent">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18521881</a> - scroll down to heading <span style="background-color:transparent"></span></p>
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But aren't all embassies protected from interference?</h2><br><div class="gmail_quote">Deirdre</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 August 2012 12:34, Deirdre Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:williams.deirdre@gmail.com" target="_blank">williams.deirdre@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">That was mentioned in the BBC reporting yesterday - in connection with someone who allegedly shot a policewoman in London and then ducked into the Libyan embassy.<div>
Deirdre<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 20 August 2012 12:29, Carlos A. Afonso <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ca@cafonso.ca" target="_blank">ca@cafonso.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">Well, precisely this announcement was what helped mobilize most South<br>
American countries in solidarity to Ecuador and endorsing its decision.<br>
<br>
BTW, what sort of terror or paranoia moved the UK Parliament to approve<br>
such Act in 1987? Those were Margareth Thatcher times which seem to be<br>
returning...<br>
<br>
frt rgds<br>
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On 08/20/2012 10:43 AM, Roland Perry wrote:<br>
> In message <<a href="mailto:50323028.7010006@cafonso.ca" target="_blank">50323028.7010006@cafonso.ca</a>>, at 09:40:08 on Mon, 20 Aug<br>
> 2012, Carlos A. Afonso <<a href="mailto:ca@cafonso.ca" target="_blank">ca@cafonso.ca</a>> writes<br>
>> Yes, really simple, unless... the UK announced its stupid intention to<br>
>> storm the Embassy.<br>
><br>
> Except they didn't announce any intentions, just recounted some<br>
> circumstances (which don't apply to this case) where they might be able<br>
> to. As the reaction is, however, predictable, we must assume that<br>
> reaction was what they intended - although what small part this step<br>
> plays in the overall scheme of things we probably won't be able to tell<br>
> for some time.<br>
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