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Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, General Convention on |
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Adopted by the General Assembly in 1946, the Convention has been accepted by three-quarters of the UN\'s members. It provides for the UN\'s immunity from jurisdiction, the inviolability of its premises and papers, certain currency and fiscal privileges, and freedom of communication. It also entails full ‘diplomatic’ immunity for the UN\'s senior personnel, and immunity in respect of the official acts of lesser officials. However, even for those states which have become parties to this Convention, national legislation will normally be required for the UN\'s privileges and immunities to be recognized within the legal system of any particular state. (One well-known derogation from the position set out in the General Convention is that the United States refuses to exempt from US taxation those of its nationals who are members of the UN Secretariat.) See also the entry which begins Headquarters of the United Nations. |
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