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Originally Posted by pornguy
Of course they will get out if they are not already out.
Sadly this is an invasion of the embassy sovereign soil. But any country that starts a war of something like this was looking for a war anyway.
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I thought you were right and agreed with you, until someone below said you were wrong. In the spirit of GFY I researched a bit and discovered that we are both wrong:
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Contrary to popular belief, diplomatic missions do not enjoy full extraterritorial status and are not sovereign territory of the represented state. Rather, the premises of diplomatic missions remain under the jurisdiction of the host state while being afforded special privileges (such as immunity from most local laws) by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. Diplomats themselves still retain full diplomatic immunity, and (as an adherent to the Vienna Convention) the host country may not enter the premises of the mission without permission of the represented country. The term "extraterritoriality," therefore, is often used in this broader sense when applied to diplomatic missions.
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source: wikipedia]
I find it unlikely that it grounds for a war, however.