Cuartero, Quiaryza Ainhar Performance Task No.

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1. What are examples of embassies to non state organizations?

Examples of embassies to non-state organizations are the United
Nations and the European Union.

2. Did all members of the United Nation sign the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic
Relations? If not all, which members did not?
Every UN member state excluding South Sudan, Palau, and the
Solomon Islands has signed the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

3. What is the significance of Article 22 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic

Relations?
The significance of Article 22 of the Vienna Convention on
Diplomatic Relations is to pursue the chain of command stated in Article 1 of the
same convention.

4. How was Julian Assange able to stay in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for 7
years?
Julian Assange's arrival in London in 2012 was when he was
wanted in the UK for extradition to and subsequent arrest in Sweden; he
overstayed in the embassy because he was waiting for the approval of his
request for Ecuadorian political asylum.

5. How were the British police able to arrest Assange after 7 years inside the
Embassy?
The Ecuadorians decided Assange had overstayed his welcome
and gave authority to the British police to arrest Assange.

6. What is the difference between the chancery and the embassy?

A chancery is the building where an embassy is located while the
embassy itself is the group of people working inside that building that represents
the country abroad.

7. Why is there a misconception that embassy buildings are in a state of

extraterritoriality?
This misconception exists because it is not well-known that most of
the people making up the embassy, like the diplomats, cannot be prosecuted for
 violating the local laws, since they answer to the international laws as well as the
laws of their home country.

8. Why was there a protest outside the Libyan embassy in London in 1984 and
what was the order of Gaddafi regarding the protest?
Two students in Tripoli Libya were hanged for opposing Gaddafi,
hence the protest. Consequently, Gaddafi ordered an individual in the embassy
building to fire a machine gun into the protesting crowd, wounding eleven people.

9. What was the response of the Libyan Embassy when the British tried to get
permission to enter the embassy building?
The Libyan Embassy did not grant access when the British tried to
get permission to enter the embassy building.

10. What action did the British take after 5 days of surrounding the embassy?
The British severed diplomatic relations with Libya that gave them
another week to leave the embassy and country.

11. What is the difference between direct diplomacy and soft diplomacy? What are
examples of soft diplomacy?
Direct diplomacy is when the ambassador meets directly with the
head of the state. Soft diplomacy is when a state “sends” something from their
country to a foreign; for example; scholarship funding for foreign students.

12. How do embassy buildings promote their countries in the receiving states? Give
examples.
Diplomatic relations such as sending ambassadors to different
states in order to communicate topics either about trade or the like, is a way
which embassies practice in order to promote their countries to the receiving
states.

13. What is the main reason why American embassies look like compounds?
American embassies look like compounds because of the history of
countless attacks; this type of architecture and design of American embassy
building evokes security.

14. What embassies and companies are inside the Green Zone of the US in
Baghdad?
The embassies of the US, UK, and Australia are inside the Green
Zone; companies such as small field headquarters for many large, international
 engineering, construction, and private military firms that contracted to help in the
war are also within the perimeters of the said zone.

15. What are the facilities inside the Green Zone that made it self sufficient?
The Green Zone has its own generators, wells, filtration plant,
sewage plant, fire station, phone network, even its own internet uplink to
circumvent the Iraqi network making it self-sufficient.

16. Under what conditions are diplomats given hardship pay? For the US, what is the
range of the hardship pay?
If a diplomat serves a place that has an extreme climate, poor
quality healthcare, high crime, high pollution, or has any other factor that makes it
more difficult to live in as a foreigner are the conditions to consider before
granting a hardship to diplomats.

17. What are examples of countries with 5% rate and 35% rate of hardship pay?
Dubai is an example of a country with a 5% rate of hardship pay,
and places such as Tripoli, Damascus, Kabul, Baghdad, and Juba give a 35%
rate.