According to the agreed rules, citizens from all member states are supposed to act as international civil servants.

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The lawyers argued that he enjoyed immunity from legal action similar to diplomatic immunity afforded international civil servants based on conventions accepted by 118 nations and rules adopted by the IMF itself.

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Yet, after the Gulf War it was discovered that these "international civil servants" misused what they had learned at the lAEA to teach their fellow Iraqis how to outwit the lAEA inspections.

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