6. ISSUES FOR DETERMINATION. From the pleadings and arguments in law, four major issues can be discerned as the basis of the action and if appropriately addressed, the Court will holistically determine the merits or otherwise of the case. However, it is necessary to mention that the existence or otherwise of a cause of action for which the Court can resolve the dispute between the parties is the claim of the Plaintiff. From the pleadings of the Plaintiff, it is apparent that the claim is grounded on the status of the Plaintiff first as an ordinary Citizen of the Defendant and thus of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) of which the Defendant is a member and then on his purported position as “Consul” of Liberia in the United States when the circumstances culminating in this action arose. Accordingly, the following issues call for determination; 1- Whether the Plaintiff as a citizen of the Defendant and mutatis mutandi of ECOWAS is entitled to diplomatic protection from the Defendant. 2- Whether the Plaintiff by virtue of his purported appointment as the ConsulGeneral of the Republic of Liberia to the United States of America is immune from arrest, indictment, prosecution, conviction and sentence to terms of imprisonment by the host or receiving State, and whether failure to secure the release of the Plaintiff by the defendant violated any of the rights of the Plaintiff under the African Charter on Human and peoples’ Rights particularly Articles, 3,4,5,6, and 7. 3- Whether from the totality of the facts presented by the Plaintiff, there is an indication of a characteristic violation of the human rights of the Plaintiff as to give the Court competence to entertain the suit and if the answer is in the p. 15