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The most
common grounds for declaration of persona non grata are:
• Violation of the Vienna
Convention, especially Articles 41 and 42 which stands for the
respect of national laws and regulations.
• Suspected of espionage.
• Symbolic indicator of displeasure because of bilateral issues,
for instance, expelling of diplomats during the cold-war phase
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Borrowings of the term Persona Non Grata
Writers, artists and the media alike have borrowed the term
Persona Non Grata.
• There is an interesting documentary called Persona Non Grata
which was produced by Oliver Stone in 2003. It maps the brief
period Oliver Stone spend in Palestine and Israel, documenting
his quest for a private interview with Yasser Arafat. With
personal views and interviews with Ehud Barak, the former Prime
Minister of Israel, the late former President of the Palestinian
National Authority and various Palestinian activists, this
documentary is noticed for its objective and an almost
non-political bias.
• Persona Non Grata is adopted as the name of a jazzy electro
music band from Hungary.
• Persona Non Grata was the title of a 2005 movie directed by
the renowned director Krysztof Zanussi. The film centers on
Wiktor, a Polish ambassador in Uruguay who is mourning the
sudden death of his beloved wife. When he returns to Poland he
meets up with Oleg, a Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
who was his friend 20 years ago. Wiktor was then an activist in
the political underground and Oleg was beginning a career as a
Soviet diplomat in Poland. The movie unfolds a strange tale of
suspicions and intrigues.
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• It is the title of a famous memoir
Persona Non Grata by Chilean diplomat and novelist, Jorge
Edwards, creating quite a scandal among Western Leftists when it
appeared in 1973. It is considered to be the first critical
evaluation of Cuba by a left-wing Latin American intellectual.
Famous people who were declared
persona non gratia
• Kurt Waldheim, former UN Secretary General and former
President of Austria and his wife were given persons non grata
status in the US and in most European countries when it was
known that he was aware of nazi war crimes.
• The State Legislature, for his “racist policies” regarding
immigration, declared Governor Arnold Shwarzenegger a persona
non grata.
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