Agreement on the Status of United States Military and Civilian Personnel (T.I.A.S.), citing the Mutual Defense Treaty (3 U.S.T. 3947) A SOFA, as requested in Article VI of the Treaty, was concluded as a separate agreement under the 1960 Treaty.84 The SOFA deals with the use of facilities by U.S. forces, and the status of U.S. forces in Japan. The agreement has been amended at least four times since the original agreement85 The political issue of SOFAs is complicated by the fact that many host countries have mixed feelings towards foreign bases on their soil and that calls to renegotiate sofa are often linked to calls for the total departure of foreign troops. Issues of different national practices may arise – while the United States and host countries generally agree on what a crime is, many U.S. observers believe that the host country`s justice systems provide defendants with much weaker protection than the United States. and that the courts of the host country may be subject to pressure from the population to pronounce a guilty verdict; In addition, U.S. soldiers who have been sent abroad should not be forced to give up the rights conferred on them by the Bill of Rights. On the other hand, observers from the host country, who have no local equivalent to the Bill of Rights, often believe that it is an unequivocal excuse to demand special treatment and that they resemble the extraterritorial agreements demanded by Western countries during colonialism. The Department of Defense, which is present in Afghanistan as part of cooperative efforts in counter-terrorism, humanitarian assistance and civil society, military training and exercises, and other activities.45 These personnel should be granted “equivalent status to administrative and technical personnel” at the U.S. Embassy under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 196146.
47 In that agreement, the Islamic Interim Government (ITGA) expressly authorized the United States Government to exercise criminal justice through United States personnel and the Afghan Government has no right to entrust American personnel to another State. International Tribunal or any other entity without the consent of the United States. . . .