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Foreign leases raise questions: overseas' governments need special handling as tenants.

Court decisions over the last few years have re-affirmed the "inviolability" of foreign governments as tenants, raising new concerns to their reliability and desirability. While there are various treaty provisions, the 1961 Vienna Convention directs attention to the issue of mission premises and has been referred to in at least one court decision.

The Vienna Convention's article 22 states: "The premises of the mission shall be inviolable. The agents of the receiving State may not enter them, except with the consent of the head of the mission."

Additionally, it discusses the host state's "special duty" to protect the premises from "any intrusion or damage" and to "prevent ...

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