In their article ‘Beyond Tehran and Nairobi’, Gábor Kajtár and Gergő Balázs examine whether attacks against embassies can qualify as ‘armed attacks’ and thus serve as a basis for the invocation of self-defence. Based on a survey of relevant state practice and opinio juris, and building on an impressive database encompassing more than 730 incidents, the authors conclude that this question must, in all likelihood, be answered in the negative. This Reply raises the question whether the analysis and the material unearthed ultimately corroborate the conclusion which the authors distil therefrom. Upon closer scrutiny, it is suggested that there may be other, more compelling, inferences to be drawn from the material explored than the one hinted at by Kajtár and Balázs.

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袭击大使馆可以作为援引自卫的依据吗？对 Gábor Kajtár 和 Gergő Balázs 的回复

在他们的文章“超越德黑兰和内罗毕”中，Gábor Kajtár 和 Gergő Balázs 研究了对大使馆的袭击是否可以被视为“武装袭击”，从而可以作为援引自卫的基础。基于对相关国家实践和法律确信的调查，并建立在包含 730 多起事件的令人印象深刻的数据库之上，作者得出结论，这个问题很可能必须得到否定的回答。该答复提出了一个问题，即分析和出土的材料是否最终证实了作者从中得出的结论。经过更仔细的审查，建议从所探索的材料中得出的推论可能比 Kajtár 和 Balázs 所暗示的推论更令人信服。