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As far as I know, occurrences of diplomatic bags for carrying persons have been extremely, extremely rare (less than a dozen) and are forbidden.

• sgift 7y ago
  > and are forbidden. That's correct - Article 27,4 of the "Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations": The packages constituting the diplomatic bag must bear visible external marks of their character and may contain only diplomatic documents or articles intended for official use. http://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/9_1_1961.pdf http://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/convention...
  • selimthegrim 7y ago
    I think the Nigerian embassy in London forgot to read that clause
    • mattst88 7y ago
      For those like me that have never heard of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dikko_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dikko_affair
  • gruez 7y ago
    Can't the embassy designate them as diplomatic couriers? Article 27.5 say they have immunity, and 27.6 says they can be assigned ad hoc.
    • alexis_fr 7y ago
      They can, but the receiving country can also kick out the ambassador and, more frequently, I believe recently some country kicked more than 10 diplomats, perhaps US against Russia.