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The Monegasque E-Embassy in Luxembourg will soon be fully operational, after a delay
linked to ratifying the agreement between Monaco and the Grand Duchy at the end of
2022. The two States signed a bilateral agreement relating to hosting the Principality’s
confidential data in July 2021. In concrete terms, the Monegasque Sovereign Cloud will
be “duplicated” in a Luxembourg data centre, which will benefit from the guarantees of
inviolability and immunity close to those granted to a physical embassy. “The Principality
of Monaco wishes to protect its data and information systems from all risks of intrusion,
deterioration, destruction, total or partial loss, notably resulting from natural disasters or
unlawful acts. For this purpose it has sought secure and suitable premises located abroad,
at least 150 kilometres away from its territory”, states the agreement, specifying that “the
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg rents these premises to the Principality of Monaco”. Within
this datacentre, “the data and information systems, the equipment and licenses hosted on
the premises as well as the data storage devices (such as publications, encryptors, servers,
magnetic tapes, optical discs, or other storage systems information), are inviolable and
cannot be the object of any search, requisition, seizure or execution measure”. The data
will be protected by eight generators ready to take over in the event of a power failure, and
a cooling system to prevent overheating.
© Depositphotos / d19p76 With this e-embassy, Monaco joins Estonia and international organizations that have opted

for similar data centres in Luxembourg. This validates the strategy of the Grand Duchy for
which these e-embassies reflect “a new diplomatic approach: “the safeguarding of sensitive
data of a country in a data centre within another friendly country”.

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