Claims Against Persons Entitled to Diplomatic Immunity: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 7679 ... August 1, 1977

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Page 10 - Realizing that the purpose of such privileges and immunities is not to benefit individuals but to ensure the efficient performance of the functions of diplomatic missions as representing States...
Page 19 - Deputies) The Committee of Ministers, under the terms of Article 15.b of the Statute of the Council of Europe, Considering that the aim of the Council of Europe is to achieve a greater unity between its members...
Page 17 - The injured person or his or her heirs, at their option, shall have a right of direct action against the insurer within the terms and limits of the policy...
Page 18 - Any person may be made a defendant who has, or claims an interest in the controversy, adverse to the plaintiff, or who is a necessary party defendant, for the complete determination or settlement of a question involved therein ; except as otherwise expressly prescribed in this act.
Page 22 - July, one thousand nine hundred and six, in a single copy, which shall remain in the archives of the Swiss Confederation and certified copies of which shall be delivered to the contracting parties through diplomatic channels. (Here follow the signatures.) • **»*•* FINAL PROTOCOL OF THE CONFERENCE FOR THE REVISION OF THE GENEVA CONVENTION.
Page 21 - This Convention shall be open to the signature of the Members of the Council of Europe.
Page 20 - State may wholly or partly withdraw a reservation it has made in accordance with the foregoing paragraph by means of a declaration addressed to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe which shall become effective as from the date of its receipt.
Page 17 - No policy or contract of liability insurance shall be issued or delivered in this state...
Page 17 - It is the intent of this Section that any action brought hereunder shall be subject to all of the lawful conditions of the policy or contract and the defenses which could be urged by the insurer to a direct action brought by the insured, provided the terms and conditions of such policy or contract are not in violation of the laws of this State.
Page 12 - Europe (1959) 29 European Convention on Compulsory Insurance against Civil Liability in respect of Motor Vehicles...

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