The abuse of diplomatic immunity and privileges as a modern security-diplomatic challenge

Abstract

In this scientific paper is made an analysis of the abuse of diplomatic immunities and privileges as a modern security-diplomatic challenge that needs to be overcome. The method of analysis, the historical method and the inductive-deductive method are used. It was concluded that the abuse of diplomatic immunities and privileges is a problem that dates back a long time and since the distant 1980s, there have been initiatives to change the Vienna Conventions related with the abuse of diplomatic immunities and privileges. Unfortunately, such serious changes have not taken place and therefore this security risk is still present in the practice of countries around the world and there are more and more examples of the practice where diplomats serve individual interests driven by socio-destructive or political intentions instead of institutional and state goals. Thereby, there is a violation of the principles of diplomatic work and the spread of the danger regarding the secure future of the citizens and institutions in the recipient countries.

Keywords

• security
• risks
• abuse
• diplomacy
• politics
• immunities and privileges