#viennaconvention — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #viennaconvention, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/people/223710/ Magyar vs. Moscow: Hungary’s new tough stance toward Russia #AnitaOrbán #ForeignMinister #Hungary #PeterMagyar #Russia #RussianDiplomats #RussianEmbassy #RussianSpies #ViennaConvention #ViktorOrbán
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https://www.europesays.com/people/220511/ Hungary kicks out 10 Russian diplomats as Moscow vows ‘harsh’ retaliation #AnitaOrbán #Budapest #DiplomaticMission #DiplomaticStatus #ForeignMinister #Hungary #moscow #Orban #Russia #ViennaConvention #ViktorOrbán
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https://www.europesays.com/people/219968/ Hungary expels 10 Russian diplomats, signalling tougher Moscow stance #AnitaOrbán #BudapestExpulsions #EUHybridAttacks #Hungary #PeterMagyar #RussiaHungaryRelations #RussianDiplomats #ViennaConvention #ViktorOrbán
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https://www.europesays.com/people/219865/ Russia Vows ‘Harsh and Painful’ Response after Hungary Expels Ten Diplomats #AnitaOrbán #diplomacy #DiplomaticMission #Embassy #Hungary #HungaryNews #Intelligence #PeterMagyar #PeterSzijjarto #relations #Russia #TiszaParty #ViennaConvention
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/252552/ Iran says two French embassy employees barred from returning #CivilSociety #DiplomaticDispute #DiplomaticMissions #employees #EsmaeilBaghaei #FranceInter #FrenchEmbassy #Iran #ViennaConvention
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‘Premises inviolable, must be protected’: India condemns defacement of Indian Embassy in Slovenia
MEA on Monday said it has taken up the matter “strongly” with Slovenian authorities in New Delhi and…
#Slovenia #SI #Europe #Europa #EU #anti-Indiaelements #DiplomaticPremises #India #IndianEmbassy #Ljubljana #mea #ministryofexternalaffairs #Novice #pro-Khalistanielements #slovenia #Slovenija #ViennaConvention
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‘Diplomatic premises are inviolable’: India condemns embassy defacement in Slovenia | India News
MEA condemns attack on Indian embassy in Slovenia NEW DELHI: The ministry …
#Slovenia #SI #Europe #Europa #EU #anti-Indiaelements #breakingnews #condemnembassydefacement #diplomaticpremisesinviolable #googlenews #hatefulpropaganda #India #indiaembassyslovenia #indianews #Indianewstoday #Novice #slovenia #Slovenianauthorities #Slovenija #todaynews #ViennaConvention
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India slams defacement of embassy premises in Slovenia, flags anti-India elements
India on Monday strongly condemned the defacement of its Embassy premises in Ljubljana, Slovenia, allegedly by anti-India elements,…
#Slovenia #SI #Europe #Europa #EU #anti-Indiaelements #diplomaticpremisessecurity #indiaembassyslovenia #Ljubljanaembassydefacement #MEAstatement #Novice #pro-Khalistanielements #slovenia #Slovenianauthorities #Slovenija #ViennaConvention
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‘Premises inviolable, must be protected’: India condemns defacement of Indian Embassy in Slovenia https://www.byteseu.com/2270208/ #AntiIndiaElements #DiplomaticPremises #india #IndianEmbassy #ljubljana #MEA #MinistryOfExternalAffairs #ProKhalistaniElements #Slovenia #ViennaConvention
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“We have strongly condemned it”: MEA reiterates stand on defacement of Indian Embassy in Slovenia https://www.byteseu.com/2269557/ #Defacement #DiplomaticPremises #Embassy #india #MEA #Slovenia #ViennaConvention
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“We have strongly condemned it”: MEA reiterates stand on defacement of Indian Embassy in Slovenia
New Delhi [India], August 11 (ANI): India on Tuesday strongly condemned the defacement of its Embassy premises in…
#Slovenia #SI #Europe #Europa #EU #defacement #DiplomaticPremises #embassy #India #mea #Novice #slovenia #Slovenija #ViennaConvention
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‘Diplomatic premises are inviolable’: India condemns embassy defacement in Slovenia | India News https://www.byteseu.com/2268882/ #AntiIndiaElements #BreakingNews #CondemnEmbassyDefacement #DiplomaticPremisesInviolable #GoogleNews #HatefulPropaganda #india #IndiaEmbassySlovenia #IndiaNews #IndiaNewsToday #Slovenia #SlovenianAuthorities #TodayNews #ViennaConvention
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India slams defacement of embassy premises in Slovenia, flags anti-India elements https://www.byteseu.com/2263188/ #AntiIndiaElements #DiplomaticPremisesSecurity #IndiaEmbassySlovenia #LjubljanaEmbassyDefacement #MEAStatement #ProKhalistaniElements #Slovenia #SlovenianAuthorities #ViennaConvention
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https://www.europesays.com/ch/75256/ Protecting civilians in good faith: the updated Commentary on the Fourth Geneva Convention #ArmedConflict #Civilians #compliance #FourthGenevaConvention #GCIVCommentary #Geneva #GenevaConventions #GoodFaith #humanity #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #MeansAndMethodsOfWarfare #ObjectAndPurpose #ProtectionOfCivilians #RespectForIHL #ViennaConvention
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/114580/ Beirut accuses Tehran of violating Vienna Convention in complaint to UN #Beirut #Iran #IRGC #LebaneseForeignMinistry #LebaneseMedia #LebaneseTerritory #Lebanon #SecurityCouncil #Tehran #UnitedNations #ViennaConvention
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Ukraine condemns Hungary over bill to detain Oschadbank assets | Ukraine news
Kyiv reacted to the Hungarian Parliament’s bill proposing a two-m…
#Hungary #HU #Europe #Europa #EU #diplomatictensions #europeanhumanrights #hír #hungary #internationallawviolations #Magyarország #News #oshchadbankassets #ukrainehungaryrelations #ukrainehungaryrelationsoshchadbankassetsinternationallawviolationsviennaconventioneuropeanhumanrightsdiplomatictensions #ViennaConvention
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Ukraine condemns Hungary over bill to detain Oschadbank assets | Ukraine news https://www.byteseu.com/1859554/ #DiplomaticTensions #EuropeanHumanRights #Hungary #InternationalLawViolations #News #OshchadbankAssets #UkraineHungaryRelations #UkraineHungaryRelationsOshchadbankAssetsInternationalLawViolationsViennaConventionEuropeanHumanRightsDiplomaticTensions #ViennaConvention
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India condemns trespassing, vandalism by Khalistanis at Embassy in Croatia, seeks action against perpetrators https://www.byteseu.com/1735766/ #Biden #BJP #Blogs #BookReviews #China #Christianity #Congress #Croatia #culture #Embassy #ForeignPolicy #Hindu #Hinduism #india #IndianArtciles #Indic #Interviews #Israel #Japan #Jihad #Khalistan #Modi #MovieReviews #myind.net #MyIndBook #MyIndMakers #Podcasts #Politics #Religion #RepublicDay #Swami #Travel #trump #Vandalisation #Videos #ViennaConvention
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South Korea vows ‘strong action’ against anti-China protests amid efforts to reset ties https://www.byteseu.com/1395208/ #AntiChinaDemonstrations #Beijing #China #ChineseEmbassy #ChineseNationals #ChinesePresidentXiJinping #DaelimDistrict #HateChina #KimMinSeok #LeeJaeMyung #myeongdong #ParkJeongSu #Seoul #SouthKorea #ViennaConvention
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A U.S. ICE raid on what South Korea claims is its diplomatic cultural annex in L.A. has sparked a serious diplomatic crisis. Seoul has formally protested, recalled its ambassador, and accused Washington of breaching the Vienna Convention.
Read more: https://readbitz.com/us-immigration-raid-on-seouls-la-facility/
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A U.S. ICE raid on what South Korea claims is its diplomatic cultural annex in L.A. has sparked a serious diplomatic crisis. Seoul has formally protested, recalled its ambassador, and accused Washington of breaching the Vienna Convention.
Read more: https://readbitz.com/us-immigration-raid-on-seouls-la-facility/
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A U.S. ICE raid on what South Korea claims is its diplomatic cultural annex in L.A. has sparked a serious diplomatic crisis. Seoul has formally protested, recalled its ambassador, and accused Washington of breaching the Vienna Convention.
Read more: https://readbitz.com/us-immigration-raid-on-seouls-la-facility/
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In the overnight attacks on #Kyiv on Thurs, fires & falling debris were reported in at least 23 locations around the city, & missiles & drones could still be heard flying overhead at dawn.
Referring to the damage to the #EU mission, #Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, said that #Russia had targeted diplomats in violation of the #ViennaConvention.
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In the overnight attacks on #Kyiv on Thurs, fires & falling debris were reported in at least 23 locations around the city, & missiles & drones could still be heard flying overhead at dawn.
Referring to the damage to the #EU mission, #Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, said that #Russia had targeted diplomats in violation of the #ViennaConvention.
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In the overnight attacks on #Kyiv on Thurs, fires & falling debris were reported in at least 23 locations around the city, & missiles & drones could still be heard flying overhead at dawn.
Referring to the damage to the #EU mission, #Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, said that #Russia had targeted diplomats in violation of the #ViennaConvention.
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In the overnight attacks on #Kyiv on Thurs, fires & falling debris were reported in at least 23 locations around the city, & missiles & drones could still be heard flying overhead at dawn.
Referring to the damage to the #EU mission, #Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, said that #Russia had targeted diplomats in violation of the #ViennaConvention.
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Pakistan retaliates against India`s Operation Sindoor by cutting off newspapers, essential supplies to Indian diplomats in Islamabad, violating Vienna Convention. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/no-newspapers-gas-pakistans-petty-retaliation-towards-indian-diplomats-post-op-sindoor-x0pspedb?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #OperationSindoor #DiplomaticTensions #ViennaConvention
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Case of the Day: Yukos v. Russia
Bill Dodge has a good post at the Transnational Litigation Blog about today’s case of the day, Yukos Capital Ltd. v. Russian Federation (D.D.C. 2025). The case was for confirmation of an arbitral award. Yukos served process on Russia under 28 U.S.C. § 1608(a)(4) through diplomatic channels. But the method was unusual. Typically, when you have to serve process in this way, you request the State Department to make service, and the State Department arranges for the US embassy abroad to deliver the papers, with a diplomatic note, to the Foreign Ministry. This is what the State Department’s regulations generally provide (22 C.F.R. § 93.1), though the regulation provides that “If the foreign state so requests or if otherwise appropriate,” the State Department can instead deliver the papers and the diplomatic note “to the embassy of the foreign state in the District of Columbia.”
Here, the State Department delivered the papers with a diplomatic note to the Russian embassy in Washington. I don’t know why the State Department did things that way. In any event, Russia argued that the court lacked personal jurisdiction because it had not been properly served. It argued that the service was improper because Russia refused delivery of the papers at the embassy, and thus it was not “appropriate,” to use the word of the regulation, to serve process at the embassy, especially in light of the inviolability of the embassy premises under the Vienna Convention.
The judge rejected Russia’s position. Some of his reasoning is not persuasive to me. For example, he argued that requiring service on the foreign ministry in Moscow instead of the embassy would make § 1608(a)(4) duplicative of § 1608(a)(3), which provides for service on the Foreign Minister. But that seems clearly wrong to me. Section 1608(a)(3) provides for service on the foreign minister by postal channels, while § 1608(a)(4) provides for service by diplomatic channels. Also, 1608(a)(3) calls for service on the foreign minister, a distinction that has been inportant in prior cases. 1
He also reasoned that the regulation merely regulated the State Department’s internal processes and that a violation of the regulation—if there was a violation—would not render the service improper. But it seems to me that the contents of the regulation might be evidence of what the United States position is on the requirements of customary international law.
I agree with everything Bill writes in his post, though I think that the issue really boils down to the question of what customary international law has to say, a point the judge did not really address. The U.N. Convention on the Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Properties (which is not a binding treaty) suggests that service of process in the circumstances of cases like this must be by “transmission through diplomatic channels to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State concerned.” But maybe the Convention doesn’t accurately state the customary international law on this point. Bill writes: “Even if one could show widespread practice limiting transmission of service through diplomatic channels to foreign ministries, one would have to show that such practice was followed from a sense of legal obligation (opinio juris) in order to establish a rule of customary international law.”
I don’t know the answer to the customary international law question. But surely the safer course is to transmit the document to the Foreign Ministry rather than the embassy, if only to avoid needless litigation about service.
- The Kumar case suggests some uncertainty about Bill’s point that there is no Vienna Convention issue here. ↩︎
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Vienna Convention@40: SRADeV initiates scheme to reduce fluorinated GHGs, ozone-depleting substances emissions – EnviroNews https://www.byteseu.com/850214/ #Climate #ClimateChange #FluorinatedGreenhouseGases #GlobalWarming #OzoneDepletingSubstances(ODS) #SRADeVNigeria #ViennaConvention
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Jorge Glas is an Ecuadoran electrical engineer who served as vice president in the Correa administration. He stayed in office briefly under Correa’s successor, Lenín Moreno, but he was convicted of accepting millions of dollars in bribes in the Odebrecht scandal. He served years in prison and was later sentenced to many more years in prison. While on a kind of parole, he took refuge in the Mexican embassy in Quito in December 2023, claiming he was a victim of political persecution. Last month, the Ecuadoran government raided the embassy and arrested Glas, prompting diplomatic protests from around the world and a dispute between Mexico and Ecuador at the ICJ. (You can read about the proceedings here).
The incident ties together a couple of old strands of Letters Blogatory posts. First is the Julian Assange diplomatic asylum case. The case was full of irony back in 2012, since Assange, a self-proclaimed champion of free speech rights, was seeking asylum from a government that had been persecuting its domestic press. The case also had a fair share of crazy: the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issued an opinion in 2016 arguing that Assange, who had skipped bail in the UK, where he was at risk of extradition to Sweden on charges of rape and sexual molestation, was somehow being arbitrarily detained in the embassy where he was hiding out. There’s irony today, too, in Ecuador of all countries raiding an embassy to make an arrest, both because of its stance in the Assange case and because Mexico and Ecuador (along with several other Latin American states) are both parties to the Convention on Diplomatic Asylum, while the UK, with most of the world, does not really recognize a right to diplomatic asylum.
Second is Ecuador’s PR campaign at the height of the Donziger case in the US. In 2014, the government invited me and others to Ecuador to visit polluted sites in the Amazon and to attend a conference presenting the government’s side of the case. That trip led to one of my favorite series of Letters Blogatory posts: a post on the conference itself, and a post about what I saw in the Amazon. During the conference, we visited the Carondelet Palace for a ninety-minute meeting with the vice president, Jorge Glas.
The key legal question is the inviolability of diplomatic missions under the Vienna Convention. There are some difficult questions about what inviolability means. Does it prevent the host state from regulating the terms and conditions of employment of its nationals on embassy premises? And so forth. But sending the police to arrest someone inside an embassy does not seem like a close call, even if the embassy did not have the right to grant the person asylum (which in this case raises questions under the Latin American treaty on asylum I mentioned above). We will see how the ICJ comes out on these question, but I am comfortable hazarding a guess in this case that Mexico will prevail on the main question.
I have no knowledge of the facts of the case against Glas, and so I don’t know whether or not he took bribes or whether or not he is a victim of political persecution. I will say that I remember him as a typical engineer, maybe even an “egghead,” very knowledgable about the technical details of oil extraction and much less charismatic and overtly political than President Correa, whose 2014 speech at the Kennedy School I covered just before my visit. Just on a personal level, I wish him well.
Photo Credit: Agencia de Noticias ANDES (CC BY-SA)
https://lettersblogatory.com/2024/05/05/the-jorge-glas-affair/
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What an infantile TWAT! Lord whateverthefuck is too STUPID to understand international LAW, the #ViennaConvention or whatever!
When an embassy or consulate is attacked...DUH... it;s declaring war on that embassy's country. OY vey!
Ignorant #ToryScum who fails up like the rest of the rightwing toffs!
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What an infantile TWAT! Lord whateverthefuck is too STUPID to understand international LAW, the #ViennaConvention or whatever!
When an embassy or consulate is attacked...DUH... it;s declaring war on that embassy's country. OY vey!
Ignorant #ToryScum who fails up like the rest of the rightwing toffs!
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What an infantile TWAT! Lord whateverthefuck is too STUPID to understand international LAW, the #ViennaConvention or whatever!
When an embassy or consulate is attacked...DUH... it;s declaring war on that embassy's country. OY vey!
Ignorant #ToryScum who fails up like the rest of the rightwing toffs!
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What an infantile TWAT! Lord whateverthefuck is too STUPID to understand international LAW, the #ViennaConvention or whatever!
When an embassy or consulate is attacked...DUH... it;s declaring war on that embassy's country. OY vey!
Ignorant #ToryScum who fails up like the rest of the rightwing toffs!
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Latin American governments rally around Mexico after embassy raid in Ecuador https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/latin-american-governments-rally-around-mexico-after-embassy-raid-in-ecuador/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Ecuador #Mexico #ViennaConvention
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Latin American governments rally around Mexico after embassy raid in Ecuador https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/latin-american-governments-rally-around-mexico-after-embassy-raid-in-ecuador/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Ecuador #Mexico #ViennaConvention
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Latin American governments rally around Mexico after embassy raid in Ecuador https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/latin-american-governments-rally-around-mexico-after-embassy-raid-in-ecuador/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Ecuador #Mexico #ViennaConvention
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Latin American governments rally around Mexico after embassy raid in Ecuador https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/latin-american-governments-rally-around-mexico-after-embassy-raid-in-ecuador/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Ecuador #Mexico #ViennaConvention
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Canada has pulled out 41 diplomats from India, accusing the Indian government of violating the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. India, however, rejected Canada's argument and stated that the state of the bilateral relationship warranted parity in mutual diplomatic presence. With the withdrawal of these diplomats, Canada now has only 21 left in India, matching India's diplomatic presence in Canada. The Indian government has maintained that its top priority is to ensure parity as Canadian diplomats were engaged in "anti-India activities.
#India #ViennaConvention #MEA
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The New York Times reported on the story of the New Yorkers who live in an apartment building near the United Nations. Their building is next-door to Bhutan’s permanent mission to the UN. According to the neighbors, Bhutan keeps a “vexingly loud air-conditioning unit on the roof of the building.” So far, they haven’t had any luck in getting relief from the noise.
The Times raises questions about whether anything can be done. “Enforcing any penalties could prove tricky, anyway, given the rules of diplomatic immunity.” This isn’t exactly right. Presumably if the neighbors sue anyone, it will be Bhutan itself and not any diplomat. So the diplomats’ immunity isn’t really the issue.
It seems to me there are two issues here. The first is whether a claim for nuisance (the most likely claim, though there might be others) would be within an exception to Bhutan’s foreign sovereign immunity. The most likely exception is the noncommercial tort exception, which allows suits against foreign states that are not within the commercial activity exception and that do not attack “the exercise or performance or the failure to exercise or perform a discretionary function regardless of whether the discretion be abused.” It seems to me that a nuisance claim can likely survive in the Second Circuit, and that the foreign state cannot say, for example, that the claim is barred because it is based on a discretionary decision to locate the mission in a particular building or to install an air conditioner. See USAA v. Permanent Mission of the Republic of Namibia, 681 F.3d 103 (2d Cir. 2012). On the other hand, the Namibia case involved a wall that collapsed and caused actual, physical property damage. Here, the neighbors’ enjoyment of their own property has been injured, but has there been any “personal injury or … damage to or loss of property,” as the FSIA requires? I’m not sure.
Second, is there an issue under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations arising out of the inviolability of the mission’s premises? The core concern protected by inviolability isn’t implicated here; no one is talking about entering the mission. Perhaps the remedy the plaintiffs might seek would be relevant. A damages remedy would arguably have nothing to do with the mission’s premises, while an equitable remedy requiring Bhutan to take steps within the premises might raise a real issue. See generally Harvey v. Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 116858 (S.D.N.Y. Jul. 1, 2022), which touches on such issues.
#Bhutan #FSIA #ViennaConvention
https://lettersblogatory.com/2023/09/25/the-case-of-the-bhutanese-air-conditioner/