BRUSSELS, May 13 — The European Union’s envoy to Iran nuclear talks, Enrique Mora, was “retained” briefly by German police at Frankfurt airport on his way back from Tehran, he said today. An EU spokesman played down the incident, which he said was “solved quickly” but which Mora had...
BRUSSELS, May 13 — The European Union’s envoy to Iran nuclear talks, Enrique Mora, was “retained” briefly by German police at Frankfurt airport on his way back from Tehran, he said today.
“An EU official on an official mission holding a Spanish diplomatic passport. Took out my passport and my phones,” he said. “We were kept separated. Refusal to give any explanation for what seems a violation of the Vienna Convention,” Mora complained.The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations grants legal privileges to diplomats and diplomatic missions, and is one of the treaties that underpins all international relations.
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