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The DRC maintains that Article 7 of the Belgian Law and the arrest warrant issued on the basis of that Article constitute "a violation of the principle whereby a State may not exercise its authority on the territory of another State and the principle of sovereign equality among all members of the United Nations", as declared in Article 2, paragraph 1, of the Charter. It also maintains that Article 5 and the arrest warrant contravene international law, in so far as they claim to derogate from the diplomatic immunity of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of a sovereign State, "deriving from Article 41, paragraph 2, of the Vienna Convention of 18 April 1961 on Diplomatic Relations".
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