See Denza, Diplomatic Law, 2nd ed., 1998, p. 160.

In article 11, paragraph 2 (b) (iii) should read A member of the diplomatic staff of permanent missions to an international organization, of a special mission, or is recruited to represent a State at an international conference .

Richard Falk, The Iran Hostage Crisis Easy Answers and Hard Questions, 74 American Journal of International Law 411 (1980) (discussing the International Court of Justice ruling in Case Concerning United States Diplomatic and Consular Staff in Tehran on the effect of undeclared hostilities on consular relations treaties).

Vol. 96, pp. 279, 305 (arbitral tribunal decision between a private company and the Republic of Burundi citing the IDI resolution to argue that because armed conflict does not ipso facto terminate or suspend treaties, then the mere severance of diplomatic relations should not affect treaties either).

See article 4 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which exempts from protection the following persons own nationals of parties to the conflict nationals of a State not bound by the Conventions nationals of a neutral State and nationals of a co belligerent State with normal diplomatic relations with the Occupying Power.