{"id":38403,"date":"2025-11-12T10:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/australias-high-court-has-definitively-banned-russia-from-building-an-embassy-in-canberra-abc\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T10:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:31:09","slug":"australias-high-court-has-definitively-banned-russia-from-building-an-embassy-in-canberra-abc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/australias-high-court-has-definitively-banned-russia-from-building-an-embassy-in-canberra-abc\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&apos;s High Court has definitively banned Russia from building an embassy in Canberra &#8211; ABC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision is based on national security considerations, as the site is located 300 meters from the Australian Parliament.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F11%2F12%2F1762942930-4988-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Australia&#039;s High Court has definitively banned Russia from building an embassy in Canberra - ABC\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The High Court of Australia has definitively banned Russia from building a new embassy in the country&#039;s capital, Canberra. It recognized the legality of the annulment of the land lease agreement on national security grounds, UNN reports with reference to ABC.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>Back in 2008, Russia signed a 99-year lease agreement for a plot of land in Canberra, 300 meters from the Australian Parliament, and intended to build a new embassy there to replace the old one, which is located in another part of the city.<\/p>\n<p>However, in 2023, the Australian Parliament decided that such a neighborhood posed a threat to the country&#039;s national security. A corresponding law was adopted &#8211; the Russian side tried to challenge this decision, arguing that it allegedly &quot;contradicted&quot; the Australian Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Sanctions loophole allowed Russian oil imports into Australia &#8211; media10.11.25, 09:58 \u2022 10549 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision is based on national security considerations, as the site is located 300 meters from the Australian Parliament. The High Court of Australia has definitively banned Russia from building a new embassy in the country&#039;s capital, Canberra. It recognized the legality of the annulment of the land lease agreement on national security grounds, UNN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}