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Edict and Statute on the Embassy of the Russian Federation - Russia and the Republics Legal Materials - Second Series
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Originally from Russia and the Republics Legal Materials - Second Series
Preview Page To confirm the appended Statute on the Embassy of the Russian Federation.
Confirmed by Edict of the President of the Russian Federation 28 October 1996, No. 1497
STATUTE ON THE EMBASSY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
I. General Provisions
1. An Embassy of the Russian Federation (hereinafter – Embassy) shall be a State agency of foreign relations of the Russian Federation effectuating the representation of the Russian Federation in the receiving State.
An Embassy shall be founded by decision of the Government of the Russian Federation in connection with the establishment on the basis of an Edict of the President of the Russian Federation of diplomatic relations with the respective foreign State on the level of embassies. An embassy shall be within the system of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (hereinafter – MID Russia).
2. An Embassy shall effectuate its activity in accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, federal laws, edicts and regulations of the President of the Russian Federation, decrees and regulations of the Government of the Russian Federation, the Statute on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Statute on the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Russian Federation in a Foreign State, the present Statute, normative acts and instructions of MID Russia, and also the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and other applicable norms of international law.
William E. Butler, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law in the University of London, attached to University College London, is the John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law at the Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University, and Founder and Director of The Vinogradoff Institute.
An authority on the legal systems of Russia and former Soviet nations, he is the author, co-author, editor or translator of more than 3,500 books and articles on Russian, Soviet, Kazakhstan, Ukrainian, Uzbekistan, and other Commonwealth of Independent States legal systems. He has acted as Counsel to the EBRD, European Union, World Bank, United Nations, and Department for International Development of the United Kingdom on individual law reform projects.
The recipient of numerous honors for his service to Russian and international law, Professor Butler is Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Associate of the International Academy of Comparative Law, and Member of the Russian Academy of Legal Sciences. He has been elected to his fourth term as a member of the Russian International Court of Commercial Arbitration. In 2003 Professor Butler was awarded the G. I. Tunkin Medal by the Russian International Law Association.
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