India argues that means he has willingly subjected himself to the jurisdiction of Indian courts despite his diplomatic status.
The UK Foreign Office says it can lift the embassy's diplomatic status to fulfil a "legal obligation" to extradite the 41-year-old.
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Late last week the administration decided - apropos of nothing - to upgrade the diplomatic status of the PLO mission in Washington.
We may have to give data centers their own diplomatic status.
It was also revealed that a former president had given him diplomatic status and a diplomatic passport as an inducement to give up his pirate network.
Indeed the PLO delegate in Washington Maen Areikat claimed that the administration's move equates the PLO's diplomatic status in the US to that of Canada and states in Western Europe.
Interior Minister Stanislav Gross said the meeting between hijacking suspect Mohamed Atta and Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir Al-Ani took place in April just before the Iraqi was expelled for conduct incompatible with his diplomatic status.
While most of the populace is mired in poverty, let's not forget that this former French colony is also home to some of the world's richest diamond fields (which is where diplomatic status proves an invaluable investment).
The decision by five South American governments to recognize "Palestine" along the 1949 armistice lines, like the decision by a number of European states - following the US - to upgrade the PLO's diplomatic status are tactical gains.
But BBC Asia analyst Charles Scanlon says the North clearly wants its threat to be taken seriously, believing this to be the best way of deterring potential aggression, boosting the prestige of its leader, and being granted equal diplomatic status.
In line with this, if the US intends to recognize a Palestinian state formed in the framework of a negotiated peace settlement, then it is utterly ridiculous, in the face of Abbas' latest pronouncements, for it to upgrade the Palestinians' diplomatic status.
Free trade agreements have proliferated in East Asia over the past several years, but so far Taiwan has been excluded from this greater economic integration largely because of its diplomatic status with the exception of the landmark Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) signed with China in June 2010.
And we continue to be focused on a resolution that results in Pakistan honoring the diplomatic immunity status of the individual and his return home.
For its part, Hanoi seeks expanded trade to resuscitate its destitute economy and to end its status as a diplomatic pariah.
Some European countries have upgraded the status of Palestinian diplomatic missions to them, but EU foreign ministers have so far avoided copying the growing number of South American governments that now fully recognise a Palestinian state.
In the highly choreographed, highly status-conscious world of diplomatic protocol, it would be hard to imagine a more blatant snub.
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He and his Fatah movement, which governs the West Bank, are now under greater pressure to proceed with a risky diplomatic course of action - asking the United Nations for an upgrade to the Palestinians' status.
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