According to the agreed rules, citizens from all member states are supposed to act as international civil servants.

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The lawyers argued that he enjoyed immunity from legal action similar to diplomatic immunity afforded international civil servants based on conventions accepted by 118 nations and rules adopted by the IMF itself.

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Yet, after the Gulf War it was discovered that these "international civil servants" misused what they had learned at the lAEA to teach their fellow Iraqis how to outwit the lAEA inspections.

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In Russia, elected officials, civil servants and police are viewed as the most corrupt, according to Transparency International.

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Other "ghost workers" include some of the 50, 000 civil servants made redundant in the mid-1990s under pressure from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

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Most Palestinian civil servants haven't been paid their full salaries, Jacki, for months, given the international sanctions since Hamas took power.

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