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37 Int'l Conciliation 5 (1967-1969)
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations

handle is hein.journals/intcon37 and id is 823 raw text is: by Philippe Cahier It was no accident that Vienna was chosen as the site of the United Nations Conference on Diplomatic Intercourse and Immunities, which opened on 2 March 1961 under the chairmanship of Alfred Verdross of Austria. Here in 1815 the first international conven- tion on the status of diplomatic agents had been concluded.' Even though limited in scope, it was the precursor of the successful effort in 1961 to codify diplomatic law, which heretofore had con- sisted only of a body of customary rules. Although the need for codification had long been recog- nized, efforts to achieve it had met with limited degrees of success. Drafts had been prepared by individuals and scholarly organi- zations, which obviously were not binding on states.2 On the international level, the League of Nations had tried to achieve some progress within the broader framework of the codification of international law. The fifth Assembly created an expert com- mittee, which met in Geneva in 1925, sent a questionnaire to Note: This article was translated from the French. , For text of Vienna Regulation concerning the relative ranks of diplomatic agents, see Yearbook of the International Law Commission, 1956, Vol. II, p. 133. Hereafter cited as ILC Yearbook. 2 For examples of works of individual scholars, see 1868 Bluntschli draft code, 1890 Fiore project, 1911 Pessoa draft, and 1926 Strupp draft, in Harvard Law School, Research in International Law, I. Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1932), pp. 145-187. For institutional ef- forts, see 1895 and 1929 drafts of the Institut de droit international, Annuaire de I'lnstitut de droit international (Paris, Pedrone), 1895-1896, pp. 240-244, and 1929, Vol. I, pp. 463-466; and the 1932 draft of the Harvard Law School, Research in International Law..., op. cit., p. 15.

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