official records of the diplomatic conference on the reaffirmation

OFFICIAL RECORDS

OF THE

DIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE ON THE REAFFIRMATION AND DEVELOPMENT

OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW APPLICABLE IN ARMED CONFLICTS

GENEVA (1974 -1977)

VOLUME XVII

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

Volume I contains the Final Act, the resolutions adopted by the Conference, and the draft Additional Protocols prepared by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Volume II contains the rules of procedure, the list of participants, the Designation aux difjerents pastes de la Conjerence*, the Liste des documents*, the report of the Drafting Committee and the reports of the Credentials Committee for the four sessions of the Conference. Volumes III and IV contain the table of amendments. Volumes V to VII contain the summary records of the plenary meetings of the Conference. Volumes VIII to X contain the summary records and reports of Committee I. Volumes XI to XIII contain the summary records and reports of Committee II. Volumes XIV and XV contain the summary records and reports of Committee III, and volume XVI contains the summary records and reports of the Ad Hoc Committee on Conventional Weapons. Volume XVII contains the table of contents of the sixteen volumes.

The Official Records of the Conference are published in all the official and working languages of the Conference. In the Russian edition, as Russian was an official and working language of the Conference only from the beginning of the second session, the documents of which no official translation was made in Russian are reproduced in English. The Arabic edition of the Official ReCJrds contains only the documents originaUy issued in Arabic and those translated officially into Arabic after Arabic became an official and working language at the end of the third session. The Fim.l Act only has been translated into Chinese.

*Document circulated in French only.

On sak:lt ridg fJruc/.;.sacl/N/ - /1/1(1 Maleria/:CIlfra/('. 3000 Bern. and at booksellers.

OFFICIAL RECORDS

OF THE

)lIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE ON THE REAFFIRMATION AND DEVELOPMENT


GENEVA (1974 - 1977)

VOLUME XVII

Federal Political Department Bern, 1978

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OFFICIAL RECORDS

OF THE

DIPLOMA TIC CONFERENCE ON THE REAFFIRMATION AND DEVELOPMENT


CONVENED BY THE SWISS FEDERAL COUNCIL FOR THE PREPARATION OF TWo PROTOCOLS ADDITIONAL

TO THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS OF AUGUST 12,1949 PROTOCOL I RELATING TO THE PROTECTION OF VICTIMS

OF INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICTS PROTOCOL II RELATING TO THE PROTECTION OF VICTIMS

OF NON - INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICTS

HELD AT GENEVA ON THE FOLLOWING DATES:

20 FEBRUARY - 29 MARCH 1974 (FIRST SESSION) 3 FEBRUARY - 18 APRIL 1975 (SECOND SESSION)

21 APRIL - 11 JUNE 1976 (THIRD SESSION) 17 MARCH - 10 JUNE 1977 (FOUTH SESSION)

PREP ARA TION

OF THE TWO PROTOCOLS ADDITIONAL TO THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS OF 1949,

PROTOCOL I RELATING TO THE PROTECTION OF VICTIMS

OF INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICTS PROTOCOL II RELATING TO THE PROTECTION OF VICTIMS

OF NON-INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICTS

REAFFIRMING AND DEVELOPING THE FOLLOWING FOUR GENEVA CONVENTIONS:

GENEVA CONVENTION FOR THE AMELIORATION OF THE CONDITONS OF THE WOUNDED

AND SICK IN ARMED FORCES IN THE FIELD OF AUGUST 12, 1949

GENEVA CONVENTION FOR THE AMELIORATION OF THE CONDITION OF WOUNDED,

SICK AND SHIPWRECKED MEMBERS OF ARMED FORCES AT SEA OF AUGUST 12, 1949

GENEVA CONVENTION RELATNE TO THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR OF

AUGUST 12; 1949

GENEVA CONVENTION RELATIVE TO THE PROTECTION OF CIVILIAN PE~SONS IN TIME

OF WAR OF AUGOST 12, 1949

VOLUME XVII

G ENE R A L I N D E X

CONTENTS

I. Contents of Volumes I to XVI 1

II. Index to the Table of Amendments ...... 167

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VOLUME I

Part One

FINAL ACT

Final Act of the Diplomatic Conference on the Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law Applicable in Armed Conflicts

Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I) ...........................

Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II) ..... .......... .....

Resolutions adopted at the fourth session

3

115

185

199

Part Two

RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE CONFERENCE

I.

II.

III.

IV.

First seSSlon (CDDH/55) .................. .

Second session (CDDH/2 2 7) •••••••.•••..••••

Third session (CDDH/243) ................. .

Fourth session (CDDH/446) ................ .

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Part Three

DRAFT ADDITIONAL PROTOCOLS TO THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS OF AUGUST 12, 1949

(International Committee of the Red Cross)

Introduction ...................................... 1

I. Draft Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts ............................ .

Annex - Regulations concerning the identification and marking of medical personnel, units and means of transport, and civil defence personnel, equipment and means of transport ........................................ 28

II. Draft Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts. .......... 33

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VOLUME II

I. RULES OF PROCEDURE (CDDH/2/Rev.3)

Rule

CHAPTER I - REPRESENTATION AND CREDENTIALS

11. Composition of delegations ........ . 12. Alternates or advisers ............ . 13. Submission of credentials •......... 14. Credentials Committee ............. .

5. Provisional participation in the Conference ........................ . 2

CHAPTER II - OFFICERS

26. Elections ......................... . 7-8. Pres,ident ......................... . 2

9-10. Acting President .................. . 2 11. Replacement of the President ...... . 3 12. The President shall not vote ...... . 3

CHAPTER III - GENERAL COMMITTEE

13 . Composition ...........•...•........ 3 14. Substitute members ................ . 3 15. Functions ......................... . 4

CHAPTER IV - SECRETARIAT

16. Duties of the Secretary-General and the Secretariat ...............•.... 4


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I.

18. 1 ~J •

20. 2l. 22. 23. 24. 25. 2 E, •

27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33.

34. 35. 36.

37. 38. 39. 40. 41.

42-44. 4 E,.

Rules

Rule

17.

of procedure (continued)

CHAPTER V - CONDUCT OF BUSINESS

Quorum .............................. . 4 5General powers of the President ..... .

Speeches ............................ . 5 Precedence .......................... . 5 Points of order ..................... . 6 Time-limit on speeches .............. . 6 Closing of list of speakers ......... . 6 Adjournment of debate ............... . 6 Closure of debate ................... . 7 Suspension or adjournment of the meeting ............................. . 7 Order of procedural motions ......... . 7 Basic proposals ..................... . 7 Other proposals and amendments ...... . 8 Decisions on competence ............. . 8

8Withdrawal of motions ............... . Reconsideration of proposals ........ . 8 International Committee of the Red Cross ............................ 9

CHAPTER VI - VOTING

Voting' rights ....................... . 9 Required majority ................... . 9 Meaning of the expression "representatives present and voting" .. 10 Method of voting .................... . 10 Conduct during voting ............... . 10 Division of proposals and amendments . 10 Voting on amendments ................ . 11 Voting on proposals ................. . 11 Elections ........................... . 11 Equally divided votes ............... . 12

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I. Rules

Rule

46. 47. 48.

49. 50.

5l. 52.

53.

54.

55.

56.

57.

58.

59. 60.

6l. 62.

of procedure (continued)

CHAPTER VII - COMMITTEES

Main Committees ..................... . Drafting Committee .................. . Other committees, commissions and working groups ...................... . Officers ............................ . Officers, conduct of business and voting in committees ................ .

CHAPTER VIII ... bAN(WAGES-ANIlRECORDS

Official and working languages ...... . Interpretation from official languages ........................... . Interpretation from other languages ........................... . Summary records ..................... .

CHAPTER IX - PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MEETINGS

Plenary meetings and meetings of committees .......................... . Mee-rings of sub-committees or working groups ...................... . Communiques to the Press ............ .

CHAPTER X - NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENTS

National Liberation Movements

CHAPTER XI - OBSERVERS

United Nations ..............•........ Specialized agencies of the United Nations and other intergovernmental bodies .............................. . Non-governmental organizations .....•. League of Red Cross Societies .•....•.

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13 13

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13

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14 14

14

15 15

15

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I. Rules

Rule

of procedure (concluded)

CHAPTER XII - AMENDMENTS RULES OF PROCEDURE

TO THE

63. Amendments to the rules of procedure ........................

AMENDMENTS MADE TO THE RULES OF PROCEDURE DURING THE CONFERENCE ...................

17

19

II. LIST OF PARTICIPANTS ............ ........ 25

III. DESIGNATION AUX DIFFERENTS POSTES DE LA CONFERENCE (French only) ................ 409

IV. LISTE DES DOCUMENTS (French only) 417

V. REPORT OF THE DRAFTING COMMITTEE

Fourth session (CDDH/404/Rev.l) 651

VI. REPORTS OF THE CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE

First session (CDDH/51/Rev.l) ......

Second session (CDDH/218/Rev.2) ....

Third session (CDDH/233/Rev.2) .....

Fourth session (CDDHI 409/Rev.l) ....

661

673

683

691

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VOLUME III

TABLE OF AMENDMENTS TO THE DRAFT ADDITIONAL PROTOCOLS

Part One

AMENDMENTS TO DRAFT ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL I AND ANNEX

Introduction ................................. . lll-lV

I. Protocol I - Comparative table of titles of articles V-XXlV

1. Draft Additional Protocol I (ICRC) . . . - Committee texts - Final Act Vll-XVl

2. Final Act - draft Additional Protocol I XVl;t.-XXlV

II. Amendments to draft Additional Protocol I and Annex 1-402

III. Index to part one of the Table of Amendments (English only) 403-419


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VOLUME IV.

TABLE OF AMENDMENTS TO THE DRAFT ADDITIONAL PROTOCOLS

Part Two

AMENDMENTS TO DRAFT ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL II, ANNEXES I - IV TO THE TABLE OF AMENDMENTS,

AND INFORMATION DOCUMENTS

Introduction .................................. . V-Vl

I. Protocol II - Comparative Table of titles of articles ............................. Vll-XV

1. Draft Additional Protocol II (ICRC) . .. - Committee texts - Final Act ..... . lX-Xll

2. Final Act - draft Additional Protocol II (ICRC) ................ . Xlll-XV

II. Amendments to draft Additional Protocol II ............................ . 1-121

III. Annexes to the Table of Amendments 123-203

Annex I Amendments to the draft code of International Crimes In violation of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the draft Additional Protocols submitted by the delegation of the Philippines ........... 125-162

Annex II Amendments submitted by the Republic of Viet-Nam at the first and second sessions of the Conference............... 165-173


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III. Annexes to the . (concluded)

Table of Amendments

Annex III Draft amendments to the draft Additional Protocols submitted by the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam .................... . 177-188

Annex IV Draft amendment concerning Protocol II as a whole submitted by the Canadian Delegation .................. . 191-203

IV. Information documents 205-293

1. Memorandum by non-Governmental Organizations on the two draft Protocols to the Geneva Conventions, 1949 - Supplementary to the Memorandum of 31 December 1973 (CDDH/INF.224, 27 April 1976) ...... 207-218

2. Memorandum by non-Governmental Organizations on the two draft Protocols to the Geneva Conventions, 1949 - Supplementary to the Memorandum of 31 December 1973 (CDDH/INF.Z24/Add.1, 27 April 1976) ..................... 219

3. Memorandum by the World Veterans' Federation and the International Federation of Resistance Fighters concerning Articles 41 and 42 of draft Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 (CDDH/III/INF.213, 27 Apr i 1 197 6 ) ...................... 221- 2 2 5

4. Memorandum concerning draft Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, prepared by the International Confederation of Former Prisoners of War (CDDHiINF.226, 3 May 1976) ...... 227-230

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IV. Information documents (continued)

5. Incendiary weapons, document from the Swedish delegation concerning the work of the Conference (CDDH/IV/INF.220, 11 May 1976) ......................... 231-233

6. Study of the problem of the material remnants of wars, particularly mines, and their effect on the environment, communicated by the United Nations Environment Programme (CDDH/IVIINF.222, 17 May 1976) ....... 235-238

7. Memorandum concerning Articles 45, 52, 53, 55 and 56 of draft Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, submitted by the International Union of Police Trade Unions (CDDHlII/INF.262, CDDH/III/INF.218, 20 May 1976) ......................... 239-242

8. Second International Symposium on Wound Ballistics, Gothenburg, 23-28 August 1976 (document received from the Swedish delegation) (CDDH/IV/INF.230, 26 May 1976) ....... 243-250

9. Letter addressed to Mr. P. Graber, Presiderit of the Conference, by Mr. J. Pictet, Vice-Chairman of ICRC and Mr. H. Haug, President of the League of Red Cross Societies, concerning Articles 9 and 23 of Protocol I (CDDH/II/INF.266, 27 May 1976) ........... ,............. 251-252

10. Memorandum concerning Articles 54, 56, 57 and 59 of draft Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, submitted by the International civil Defence Organization (CDDH/II/INF.275, 15 April 1977) ..... 253-259

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IV. Information rlocuments(~oticludedl

11. Terminal ballistics and wounding effects of small calibre projectiles, document received from the Austrian, Swedish and Swiss delegations (CDDHIIV/INF.237, 15 April 1977) ..... 261-280

12. Implementation of General Assembly Resolution 3435.(XXX): Study of the problem of the material remnants of wars, particularly mines, and their effect on the environment, document communicated by the United Nations Environment Programme (CDDH/IVJINF.241, 2 May 1977) ........ 281-289

13. Statement by UNESCO at the fourth session of the Diplomatic Conference on the Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law Applicable in Armed Conflicts (CDDH/INF.242, 17 May 1977) . ......... 291-293

V. Index to the Table of Arriendments (English only) ............................. 295-301

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VOLUME V

SUMMARY RECORDS OF THE PLENARY MEETINGS

1. First seSSlon (CDDH/SR.1-22) ............... . 1

First plenary meeting ....................... 7

Opening of the Conference (item 1 of the provisional agenda)

Election of the President (item 2 of the provisional agenda)

Statement by the President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania

Second plenary meeting ...................... 15

Question of invitations

Third plenary meeting ....................... 23

Question of invitations (continued)

Fourth plenary meeting ..... ...... ... ..... ... 33


(a) Guinea-Bissau (b) Provisional Revolutionary

Government of the Republic of South Viet-Nam

Fifth plenary meeting ....................... 41


(b) Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Viet-Nam (continued)


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I. First session (CDDH!SR.1-22) (continued)

Fifth plenary meeting (continued)

Tribute to the memory of Mr. Mahmoud H. El Aroussy, formerly Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt and late representative of the Sultanate of Oman

Sixth plenary meeting .......... ............. 55


(b)

(c)

Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Viet-Nam(concluded) National libe~ation movements

Seventh plenary meeting ..................... 65

Question of invitations (concluded)

(c) National liberation movements (concluded)

Election of officers

Eighth plenary meeting .......... ............ 73

Condolences to Turkey

Organization of work

Provisional adoption of chapter V of the draft rules of procedure

Proposal to entrust to the Drafting Committee the study of amendments to the draft rules of procedure

Adoption of the agenda (item 6 of the provisional agenda)

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I. First seSSlon (CDDH/SR.1-22) (continued)

Ninth plenary meeting ....................... 81

Tribute to the memory of Mr. Carl Jacob Burckhardt

Adoption of the programme of work contained in the annex to the provisional agenda (agenda item 6)

Proposal for an Ad Hoc Committee on Weapons

Tenth plenary meeting ....................... 91

General discussion (agenda item 8)

Eleventh plenary meeting .................... 101

Genera~ discussion (continued)

(agenda item 8)

Twelfth plenary meeting 117

General discussion (continued)

(agenda item 8)

Thirteenth plenary meeting 127


(agenda item 8)

Fourteenth plenary meeting 141


(agenda item 8)

Fifteenth plenary meeting. .......... ........ 153

Report of the Drafting Committee on the rules of procedure and adoption of the rules (agenda item 9)

Sixteenth plenary meeting ................... 163

Report of the Drafting Committee on the rules of procedure and adoption of the rules (agenda item 9) (continued)

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Seventeenth plenary meeting 173

Report of the Drafting Committee on the rules of procedure and adoption of the rules (agenda item 9) (concluded)

General discussion (agenda item 8) (resumed from the fourteenth plenary meeting)

Eighteenth plenary meeting .................. 183


(agenda item 8)

Nineteenth plenary meeting .............. .... 195

General discussion (concluded)

(agenda item 8)

Twentieth plenary meeting ................... 211

Report of the Credentials (agenda item 10)

Committee

Twenty-first plenary meeting 219

Reports of Committees and of Drafting Committee (agenda item 11):

Report of the Ad Hoc Conventional Weapons

COmIDittee on

Report of Committee III

Consideration of draft resolutions:

Draft resolution CDDH/40 Draft resolution CDDH/I/60 Draft resolution CDDH/I/69 Draft resolution CDDH/52

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Twenty-second (closing) plenary meeting ..... 225

Reports of Committees and of Drafting Committee (agenda item 11) (concluded):

Report of Committee II

Report of Committee I

Consideration of draft resolutions (concluded):

Draft resolution CDDH/52 and Add.l (concluded)

Closure of the session (agenda item 13)

TEXT OF STATEMENTS AND RESERVATIONS COMMUNICATED IN WRITING TO THE PRESIDENT OR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

OF THE CONFERENCE CONCERNING THE FOLLOWING DECISIONS ADOPTED IN PLENARY MEETING

Text of statements and reservations communicated in writing to the President or the Secretary-General of the Conference concerning the following decisions adopted in plenary m~eting (CDDH/54) ..... ..... ...... 233

(These statements and declarations are annexed in their original language and In alphabetical order.)

1. Adoption by consensus of draft resolution CDDH/12 and Add.l to 4 on the participation of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (fourth plenary meeting)

Argentina Belgium Chile France Germany (Federal Republic of) Italy Liechtenstein

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I. First seSSlon (CDDH/SR.1-22) (conclud~d)

1. Adoption by consensus of d~aft resolution CDDH/12 and Add.l to 4 on the participation of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (fourth plenary meeting) (concluded)

Luxembourg Netherlands Paraguay Spain Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom of Great Britain and

Northern Ireland United States of America

2. Adoption by consensus of draft resolution CDDH/22 and Corr.l (English) and Corr.2 (French) on the participation of the national liberatidn movements (seventh plenary meeting)

France Germany (Federal Republic of) Liechtenstein Nicaragua Paraguay Spain Switzerland Turkey United States of America

3. Approval by consensus of elections of officers of the Conferen~e (seventh plenary meeting)

Portugal

4. Rejection by the Conference of draft resolutionCDDH/14 on the participation of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Viet-Nam (fifth plenary meeting)

Denmarlr

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II. Second seSSlon (CDDH!SR;23-30) 265

Twenty-third (opening) plenary meeting 269

Opening of the secoijd session

Report by the President on the meeting of the General Committee held on 31 January 1975

I

Consideration of t~e draft resolution entitled "Question of the participation of South Viet-Nam in the , Conference"

Point ,of order

Filling of vacancies

Statement on behalf of the of the African countries

delegations

Twenty-fourth plenary meeting 277

,Consideration of the draft resolution entitled "Question of the participation of South Viet-Nam in the Conference" (continued)

Twenty-fifth plenary meeting .... ..... ...... 287

Consideration of the draft resolution entitled "Question of the participation of South Viet-Nam in the Conference" (continued)

Twenty-sixth plenary meeting. .............. 301

Consideration of the draft resolution entitled "Question of the participation of South Viet-Nam in the Conference" (continued)

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II. Second session (CDDH/SR.23-30) (continued)

Twenty-seventh plenary m~~ting 313

Draft resolution submitted by Nigeria regarding the observance by South Africa of the Geneva Conventions of 1949

Consideration of the draft resolution entitled "Question of the participation of South Viet-Nam in the Conference" (concluded)

Twenty-eighth plenary meeting ........ ...... 325

Adoption of the agenda for the plenary meetings

closing

Expression of condolences with recent deaths

in connexion

Report of the Credentials Committee

Dates of the Conference

third session of the

Twenty-rtinth plenary me~tihg ........ ....... 337

Consideration of the reports Committees:

of

Report of the Ad Hoc Conventional Weapons

Committee on




Thirtieth (closing) plenary meeting .. ...... 357

Question of the adherence of South Africa to the Geneva Conventions of 1949

Consideration of draft resolutions:

Protection of journalists engaged in dangerous missions in areas of armed conflict

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II. Second session (CDDH/SR.23-30) (concluded)

Thirtieth (closing) (concluded)

plenary meeting

Submission of proposals and amendments to draft Protocols I and II and new arrangement of the two draft Protocols (to be prepared by the Secretariat)

Continuation of the proceedings

Appeal in connexion with the Viet-Nam

events In

Closure of the session

III. Third session (CDDH/SR.31-33) 367

Thirty-first (opening) plenary meeting 371

Statement by the President

Changes arising in the l"ist holders of the Conference

of office


Co-ordination of the work of the Committees regarding the problem of reprisals

Allocation of Articles 63, 64, 65, 67, 68 and 69 of draft Protocol I and Article 32 of draft Protocol II

Thirty-second plenary meeting ............. 377

Changes arising in the list of officeholders of the Conference (concluded)

Thirty-third (clbsing) plenary me~ting .... 379

Adoption of the plenary meeting

agenda of the closing

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III. Third seSSlon (CDDH/SR.3l-33) (concluded)

Thirty-third (closing) plenary meeting (concluded)

Reports of Committees:




Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Conventional Weapons

Report of the Committee on Credentials

Continuation of the proceedings of the Conference

Adoption of resolutions

Amendment to the rules of procedure


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VOLUME VI


1. Fourth seSSlon (CDDH/SR.34-46) ............. . 1

Thirty-fourth (opening) plenary meeting 19

Opening of the session

Adoption of the agenda


Changes arising in the list of officeholders of the Conference

Tribute to the ~emory of Ambassador Edvard Hambro, former head of the Norwegian delegation and Chairman of Committee I at the first and second sessions of the Conference

Work of the Drafting Committee

Report on the meeting of the General Committee

Thirty-fifth plenary meeting .......... ...... 27



Changes arising in the list of officeholders of the Conference (concluded)

Report on the work of the Drafting Committee

Report on Committee

the meeting on 13 April

of the 1977

General


33

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I. Fourth seSSlon (CDDH/SR.34-46) (continued)

Thirty-sixth plenary meeting ................



Proposals by the General Committee concerning the procedure to be followed for the adoption of the draft Protocols in plenary meetings of the Conference

Introduction of the reports of Committees I, II and III




Adoption of the articles of draft Protocol I

Article 1 - General principles and scope of application

Explanations of vote

Article 2 - Definitions

Article 3 - Beginning and end of applic~tion

Article 4 - Legal status of the Parties to the conflict

Annex - Explanations of vote

Draft Protocul I

Australia - Article 1 Cyprus - Article 3 Germany, Federal Republic of Article 1

Guatemala - Article 1 Holy See - Article 1 Indonesia - Article 1 New Zealand -,Article 1 Spain - Article 1

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!hirty-seventh plenary meeting

Adoption of the articles of draft Protocol I (continued)

Article 5 - Appointment of Protecting Powers and of their substitute


Article 6 - Qualified persons

Article 7 - Meetings

Article 8 - Terminology

Article 9 - Field of application

Article 10 - Protection and care

Article 11 - Protection of persons

Article 12 - Protection of medical units

Article 13 - Discontinuance of protection of civilian medical units

Article 14 - Limitations on requisition of civilian medical units

Article 15 - Protection of civilian medical and religious personnel

Article 16 - General protection of medical duties

Article 17 - Role of the civilian population and of aid societies

Article 18 - Identification

Article 19 - Neutral and other States not Parties to the conflict

Article 20 - Prohibition of reprisals

Article 20 bis - General principle

Article 20 ter - Missing persons

Article 20 guater - Remains of deceased

Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Conventional Weapons

25

1. Fourth session (CDDH/SR.34-46) (continued)

Thirty-seventh plenary meeting (concluded)


Draft Protocol I

Australia - Article 11 Belgium - Article 5 Egypt - Articles 5 and 20 Greece - Article 5 Holy See - Article 17 Israel - Articles 8, 11, 15 and 17 Madagascar - Article 12 Nigeria - Article 5 Spain - Article 7 United Kingdom of Great Britain and

Northern Ireland - Article 20 quater United States of America - Article 11

Thirty-eighth plenary meeting

Tribute to the memory of Mr. Christophe Assamoi, a member of the delegation of the Ivory Coast


Article 22 - Medical vehicles

Article 23 - Hospital ships and coastal rescue craft

Article 24 - Other medical ships and craft

Article 26 - Protection of medical aircraft

Article 26 bis - Medical aircraft in areas not controlled by an adverse Party

Annex - Explanation of vote

Draft Protocol I

Indonesia - Article 23

83

93

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I. Fourth seSSlon (CDDH/SR.34-46) (cont~tiu~d)

Thirty-ninth plenary meeting



Article 27 - Medical aircraft ln contact or similar zones

Article 28 - Medical aircraft in areas controlled by an adverse Party

Article 29 - Restrictions on operations of medical aircraft

Article 30 - Notifications and agreements concerning medical aircraft

Article 31 - Landing and inspection of medical aircraft

Article 32 - Neutral or other States not Parties to the conflict

Article 33 - Basic rules

Article 34 - New weapons

Article 35 - Prohibition of perfidy

Article 36 - Recognized emblems ----------- .. ---~- .

Article 37 - Emblems of nationality

Article 38 - Quarter

Article 38 bis - Safeguard of an enemy hors de combat

Article 39 - Occupants of aircraft

Article 40 - Spies

Article 41 - Armed forces


Draft Protocol I

Argentina - Article 33 Democratic Yemen - Article 39 Egypt - Articles 27 and 33 Germany, Federal Republic of Article 33

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Thirty-ninth plenary me~ting(tioncluded)

Annex - Explanations of vote (concluded)

India - Article 33 Israel - Articles 35, 36, 39,

40 and 41 Mali - Article 35 Sudan - Article 39 United Kingdom of Great Britain and

Northern Ireland - Article 33 Venezuela - Article 33

Fortieth plenary meeting .................... 119


Article 42 - New and of prisoners

category of combatants of war



Draft Protocol I

Belgium - Article 42 France - Article 42 Ger-many, Federal Republic Article 42

Holy See - Article 42 Ireland - Article 42 Spain - Article 42 Sudan - Article 42

of -

Forty-first plenary meeting 141


Article 42 (concluded)

Title


Article 42 bis who ha've taken

- Protection of persons part in hostilities

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Forty-first plenary meeting (~ontinued)

Adoption of the articles of draft Protocol I (continued) Article 42 quater - Mercenaries


Article 43 - Basic rule

Article 44 - Scope of application

Article 45 - Definition of civilians and civilian population

Article 46 - Protection of the civilian population


Article 47 - General protection of civilian objects


Article 47 bis - Protection of cultural objects Annex - Explanations of vote

Draft Protocol I

Afghanistan - Article 42 quater Australia - Articles 42 quater,

44 and 47 Byelorussian Soviet Socialist

Republic - Article 46 Canada - Articles 45, 46, 47 and 50 Colombia - Articles 42, 42 quater

and 46 Cuba - Articles 42 and 42 guater Democratic Yemen - Article 42 France - Articles 43 and 47 German Democratic Republic Article 46

Germany, Federal Republic of Articles 46 and 47

India - Article 43 Israel - Article 42 bis Madagascar - Article~

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1. Fourth seSSlon (CDDH/SR. 34-46) <continued)

Forty-first plenary meeting (coricluded)


Mauritania - Articles 42 and 42 quater

Mexico - Articles 42 quater, 46 and 47

Mozambique - Article 42 quater Netherlands - Articles 42 quater,

46, 47, 47 bis and 50 Oman - Articre-42 Romania - Article 46 Senegal - Article 42 quater Sweden - Articles 42 guater and 46 Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya - Article 42 guater

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Articles 43 and 46

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Article 42 quater

United States of America - Article 47

Forty-second plenary meeting .. ... ..... ...... 205


Part IV, Section I

Article 47 bis - Protection of cultural objects (coDCluded)

Sub-paragraph (a) Sub-paragraph (~)


Article 44 - Scope of application (concluded)

Article 48 - Protection of objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population

Article 48 bis - Protection of the natural environment

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Forty-second plenary meeting (continued)

Adoption of the articles of draft Protocol I (concluded)

Article 49 - Protection of works and installations containing dangerous forces


Article 50 - Precautions In attack


Article 51 - Precautions against the effects of attacks


Article 52 - Non-defended localities

Article 53 - Demilitarized zones

Article 54 - Definitions and scope

Article 55 - General protection


Article 56 - Civil defence In occupied territories Article ~7 - Civilian civil defence organizations of neutral or other States not Parties to the conflict and international co-ordinating organizations

Article 58 - Cessation of protection



Draft Protocol I

Afghanistan - Article 50 Argentina - Article 48 bis Australia - Articles 47 bis, 48,

48 bis, 49 and 58 Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic - Article 48 bis

Canada - Articles 47 bis-and 51

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I. Fourth seSSlon (CDDH/SR.34-46) (tiontinued)

Forty-second plenary meeting (conc'luded)

Annex - Explanations of vote (tioncluded)

Cyprus - Article 56 Egypt - Article 55 France - Article 48 bis Germany, Federal Republic of Articles 47 bis, 50 and 51

Ghana - Artic~49 Holy See - Article 47 bis Hungary - Article 48 bis India - Article 50 Indonesia - Articles 54, 56,

57 and 58 Israel - Articles 54 and 58 Italy - Articles 47 bis, 50 and 51 Madagascar - Article-sG Netherlands - Article 55 Poland - Article 47 bis Qatar - Articles 46 to 49 Republic of Korea - Article 51 Romania - Articles 49, 50 and 56 Sweden - Article 50 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Articles 54 to 59

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - Article 47 bis

United Republic of Cameroon Article 51

United Republic of Tanzania Ar·ticle 42

United States of America Articles 47 bis, 50 and 51

Yugoslavia - Article 56

Forty-third plenary meeting ..... .... ........ 243


Article 59 - Identification (concluded)

Article 59 bis - Members of the armed forces and military units assigned to civil defence organizations

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Forty-third plenary meeting (continued)




Article 61 - Basic needs in occupied territories

Article 62 - Relief actions

Article 62 bis - Personnel participating in relief actions


Article 64 - Refugees and stateless persor:s

Article 64 bis - Reunion of dispersed families

Article 65 - Fundamental guarantees

Exp~C3.nations of vote

Article 67 - Protection of women

Article 68 - Protection of children

Article ,69 - Evacuation of children

New article to be added after Article 69 - Measures of protection for journalists

Article 70 - Measures for execution

Article 70 bis - Activities of the Red Cross and other humanitarian organizations

Article 71 - Legal advisers in armed forces

Article 72 - Dissemination

Article 73 - Rules of application

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Forty-third plenary meeting (concluded)


Draft Protocol I

Afghanistan - Article 65 Australia - Articles 59 bis and

70 bis Austria - Articles 59 bis, 65 and

new article to be added after Article 69

Belgium - Article 65 Cyprus - Article 65 Egypt - Article 59 bis France - Article 65--German Democratic Republic Article 65

Germany, Federal Republic of Articles 59 bis and 65

Ghana - Articre-59 bis Holy See - Article ~ Hungary - Article 48 bis Indonesia - Articles sg-bis and 72 Israel - Articles 59 bis and 70 bis Japan - Article 65 Netherlands - Article 65 Romania - Article 65 Sudan - Articles 47 bis and 72 Sweden - Article 59 bis Switzerland - Article-59 bis Union of Soviet Socialist-- Republics - Articles 59 bis and 65

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - Article 59 bis

Yugoslavia - Article 59 bis

Forty-fourth plenary meeting


Article 74 - Repression of breaches of this Protocol


279

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I. Fourth session (CDDH/SR.34-46) (continued)

Forty-fourth plenary meeting (concluded)


Draft Protocol I

Austr~lia - Article 74 Belgium - Article 74 Canada - Philippine amendment to Article 74 and Article 74

Egypt - Article 74 France - Article 74 India - Article 74 Japan - Article 74 Mozambique - Article 74 Romania - Article 74 Spain - Article 74 Sweden - Article 74 Yug?slavia - Article 74

Forty-fifth plenary meeting ..... ... .... ..... 307


Article 76 - Failure to act

Article 76 bis - Duty of commanders

Article 77 - Superior orders


Article 79 - Mutual assistance in criminal matters

Article 79 bis - International FactFinding Commission

Paragraph l(b) - Amendment by the United States of America

Paragraph 2(a) - Amendment CDDH/4l5 and Add.l and 2 and Corr.l


Paragraph 2 - Amendment by the United States of America

Paragraph 3(a) - Amendment by the United States of America

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1. Fourth seSSlon (CDDH/SR.34-46) (continued)

Forty-fifth plenary meeting (~on~luded)


Paragraph 7 - Amendment by the United States of America; amendment by Austria, Denmark and Sweden


Draft Protocol I

Argentina - Article 77 Canada - Article 77 Czechoslovakia - Article 79 bis;

amendment proposed in document CDDH/415 and Add.l and 2 and Corr.l

Democratic Yemen - Article 77 Egypt - Article 79 bis France - Article 79--Holy See - Article 77 Indonesia - Articles 76, 76 bis, 77,

79 and 79 bis Israel - Article 77 Poland - Article 79 Romania - Article 79 bis Spain - Article 77 Sudan - Article 77 United States of America - Article 77 Yemen - Article 79 bis

Forty-sixth plenary meeting ................. 341


Article 79 bis - International FactFinding Commission (concluded)


New article on responsibility to precede Article 80


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I. Fourth seSSlon (CDDH/SR. 34-46) (continued)

Forty-sixth plenary meeting (contin~ed)


New article on co-operation to be included before or after Article 70


Code of International Crimes in Violation of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the draft Additional Protocols

Article 80 - Signature

Statement by the Observer for the Sovereign Order of Malta

Article 81 - Ratification

Article 82 - Accession

Article 83 - Entry into force

Article 84 - Treaty relations upon entry into force of this Protocol


Amendment to reintroduce Article 85 Reservations


Draft Protocol I

Australia - Articles 79 bis, 82 and 85

Austria - Article 85 Belgium - Article 85 Canada - Articles 79 bis and 84 Chile - Article 79 bis Colombia - Article ~bis Democratic Yemen - Article 85 Denmark - Article 79 bis Ecuador - Article 85 and new article to be inserted before or after Article 70

Finland - Articles 79 bis and 85

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1. Fourth seSSlon (CDDH/SR.34-46) (concluded)

Forty-sixth plenary meeting (tioncl~ded)


France - New article to be inserted before or after Article 70, and Article 85

Germany, Federal Republic of Article 84, para.3

Holy See - Article 85 Honduras - Article 85 Hungary - Article 85 India - New article before or after Article 70

Indonesia - New article before or after Article 70, and Articles 81 and 83

Israel - Article 79 bis Italy - New article before or after Article 70, and Article 79 bis

Jamaica - Article 84 Japan - Articles 79 bis, 82 and 84 Mauritania - Article-s4 Mozambique - Article 85 Netherlands - Article 83 Peru - New article before or after Article 70, and Article 79 bis

Republic of Korea - Article ssSpain - Article 84 Syrian Arab Republic - Articles 79 bis, 80, 85 and new article before or after Article 70

Turkey - Articles 79 bis and 84 United Kingdom of Great Britain and

Northern Ireland - Article 84 Uruguay - Article 85

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VOLUME VII


I. Fourth session (continued) (CDDH/SR.47-59) .. 1

Forty-seventh plenary meeting 15


Article 85 - Reservations (concluded)

Article 86 - Amendment

Art.icle 86 bis - Committee on the prohibition or restriction of the use of certain conventional weapons


Article 87 - Denunciation

Article 88 - Notifications

Article 89 - Registration

Article 90 - Authentic texts


Draft Protocol I

Australia - Article 86 bis Austria - Article 86 bi-s-Chile - Articles 85 and 86 bis Democratic People's Republic of

Korea - Article 86 bis Ghana - Article 86 bis Holy See - Article ~bis India - Article 86 bis--Israel - Article 88 Italy - Article 86 bis Lebanon - Article 8~is Mozambique - Article ~bis Portugal - Article 86 bi-s-Romania - Article 86 bis


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Forty-seventh plenary meeting (doncluded)


Spain -Article 86bis Syrian Arab RepubliC-= Article 84

Forty-eighth plenary meeting

Adoption of table of contents for draft Protocol I and Annexes I and II

Adoption of the title of draft Protocol I

Adoption of Annex I to draft Protocol I

Title

Article 1 - Identity card for permanent civilian medical and religious personnel

Article 2 - Identity card for temporary civilian medical and religious personnel

Article 3 - Shape and nature

Article 4 - Use

Article 5 - Optional use

Article 6 - Light signal

Article 7 - Radio signal

Article 8 - Electronic identification

Article 9 - Radiocommunications

Article 10 - Use of international codes

Article 11 - Other means of communication

Article 12 - Flight plans

Article 13 - Signals and procedures for the interception of medical aircraft

Article 14 - Identity card

Article 15 - International distinctive sign

Article 16 - International protective sign for works and installations containing dangerous forces

51

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Forty-eighth plenary meeting (concluded)

Adoption of the articles of draft Protocol I (concluded)

Article 18 bis - Revision of Annex I


Draft Protocol I, Annex I

Israel - Articles 1 to 3 United Kingdom of Great Britain and

Northern Ireland - Articles 5 to 8

Forty-ninth plenary meeting

Adoption of the articles of draft Protocol II

Article 1 - Material field of application



Draft Protocol II

Argentina - Article 1 B~lgium - Article 1 Brazil - Article 1 Canada - Article 1 Colombia - Article 1 Ecuador - Article 1 Germany, Federal Republic of Article 1

Ghana - Article 1 India - Article 1 Kenya - Article 1 Philippines - Article 1 of the simplified version of draft Protocol II

United Republic of Cameroon Article 1

United Republic of Tanzania Article 1

59

85

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Fiftieth plenary meeting ....... ........ .....

Adoption of the articles of draft Protocol II (continued)

Article 2 - Personal field of application

Article 3 - Legal status of the Parties to the conflict

Article 4 - Non-intervention

Article 5 - Rights and duties of the Parties to the conflict


Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2(b)

Paragraph 2(a)

Paragraph 2(e)

New paragraph 3

Article 6 bis - Protection of women and children

Article 8 - Persons whose liberty has been restricted

New Ar~icle 8 bis - Search

Article 10 - Penal prosecutions



Draft Protocol II

Afghanistan - Article 10 Holy See - Article 10 Indonesia - Article 10 Italy - Article 1 Kenya - Article 10 Netherlands - Article 5 Nigeria - Article 10 Saudi Arabia - Article 10 Spain - Article 10 United Republic of Cameroon Article 10

Zaire - Articles 3 and 10

107

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Fifty-first plenary meeting



Article 10 bis - Unconditional respect



Article 12 bis - Protection of persons

Article 13 - Search and evacuation

Article 14 - Role of the civilian population and of relief societies

Article 15 - Protection of medical andre~igious personnel


Article 17 - Protection of medical units and transports

ArticYe 18 - The distinctive emblem and signals



Article 20 bis - Protection of cultural objects


Draft Protocol II

Australia - Article 10 bis Finland - Article 10 bi-s-France - Article 10 bis Holy See - Article lo-Eis Ireland - Article 20 --Italy - Article 10 bis Netherlands - Artic~12 bis

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Fifty-first plenary meeting (concluded)

Nigeria - Article 10 bis Portugal - Article 20--Saudi Arabia - Article 20 Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya - Article 12 bis

Fifty-second plenary meeting


Article 20 bis - Protection of cultural objects (contlnued)


Article 22 - Quarter

Article 22 bis - Safeguard of an enemy hors de combat

Article 23 - Recognized signs



Article 24 - Basic rules (concluded)

Article 25 - Definition of civilians and civilian population

Article 26 bis - General protection of civilian objects

Article 27 - Protection of objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population

Article 28 - Protection of works and installations containing dangerous forces


Draft Protocol II

Belgium - Article 22 bis India - Article 24

125

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Fifty-second plenary meeting (concluded)

Ireland - Article 24 New Zealand - Article 24 Spain - Articles 24 and 26

Fifty-third plenary meeting

Adoption of the articles of draft Protocol II (concluded)

Article 20 bis - Protection of cultural objects (concIuded)

Article 29 - Prohibition of forced movement of civilians

Article 30 - Respect and protection

Articla 32 - Privileged treatment of children

Article 33 - Relief societies and relief actions

Paragraph 2

Paragraph 1

Article 14 - Role of the civilian polulation and of relief societies


Article 34 - Recording and informaiton



Article 38 - Special agreements

Article 39 - Co-operation in the observance of the present Protocol

Article~40 - Signature


Articile 42 - Accession


Article 44 - Amendments

141

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Fifty-third plenary meeting ~bbhblUded)

Article 44 bis - Denunciation



Article 47 - Authentic texts

Adoption of the articles of draft Protocol II (concluded)

Annex

Title



Draft Protocol II

Australia - Article 33 Belgium - Article 33 Cyprus - Article 29 Finland - Article 20 bis Germany, Federal Republic of Article 33

Holy See - Articles 20 bis, 21 33, 34 and 39 Indja - Article 20 bis Indonesia - Article~ bis Italy - Articles 38 and~ Netherlands - Articles 20 bis,

30 and 39 United Kingdom of Great Britain and

Norhtern Ireland - Article 20 bis United Republic of Cameroon Article 33

Statement by the International Committee of the Red Cross Article 39

Fifty-fourth plenary meeting ........... ..... 165

Adoption of the Preambles to draft Protocols I and II

Preamble to draft Protocol I

Preamble to draft Protocol II

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F~fty-fourth plenary meeting (concluded)

Consideration of draft resolutions

Resolution concerning the Use of Certain Electronic and Visual Means of Identification by Medical Aircraft protected under the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and under the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I)

Resolution concerning the Use of Visual Signalling for Identification of Medical Transports protected under the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and under the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I)

Resolution concerning the Use of Radiocommunications for Announcing and Identifying Medical Transports protected under· the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and under the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Cqnventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I)

Draft resolution CDDH/410

Annex - Explanation of vote

Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya - draft resolution CDDH/410

Fifty-fifth plenary meeting

Consideration of draft resolutions


Draft resolution CDDH/437 - Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the E~ent of Armed Conflict

181

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Fifty-fifth plenary meeting (~oncluded)

Consideration of draft resolutions (concluded)

Draft resolution CDDH/438 and Add.l and 2 and Corr.l and 2 on the dissemination of knowledge of international humanitarian law applicable in armed conflicts



Hungary - draft resolution CDDH/438 and Add.l and 2 and Corr.l and 2 on the dissemination of knowledge of international humanitarian law applicable in armed conflicts

Poland - draft resolution CDDHJ438 and Add.l and 2 and Corr.l and 2 on the dissemination of knowledge of international hhlmanitarian law applicable in armed conflicts

Fifty-sixth plenary meeting

Adoption of draft Additional Protocols I and II

Adoption of draft Additional Protocol I

Adoption of draft Additional Protocol II

Statements on Protocols I and II


Argentina - Protocols I and II Australia - Protocols I and II Chile - Protocol II Czechoslovakia - Protocols I and II Democratic Yemen - Protocols I and II Egypt - Protocols I and II German Democratic Republic

Protocols I and II Germany, Federal Republic of Protocols I and II

191

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Fifty-sixth plenary meeting (concluded)


Guatemala - Protocols I and II Hungary - Protocols I and II Philippines - Protocols I and II Senegal - Protocols I and II Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya - Protocols I and II

Syrian Arab Republic - Protocol I Tunisia - Protocols I and II Turkey - Protocols I and II Uganda - Protocols I and II

Fifty-seventh plenary meeting ............ ... 253

Adop~ion of the meeting's agenda

Adoption of the draft Final Act


Draft resolution CDDH/44l and Add.l on weapons

Report. of the Credentials Committee

Report of the Drafting Committee

Annex - Statements and explanations of vote

Australia - Final Act Brazil - Protocol II Democratic Yemen - Final Act Ecuador - Final Act Egypt - Resolution CDPH/44l and Add.l Germany, Federal Republic of - Final Act and resolution CDDH/~4l.and Add.l

France - Final Act and resolution CDDH/44l and Add.l

Ghana - Final Act Guatemala - Final Act Jamaica - Final Act Mozambique - Final Act Philippines - Final Act Portu~al - Resolution CDDH/441 and Add.l

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1. Fourth session (CDDH/SR.47-59) (concluded)

Fifty-seventh plenary meeting(~oncl~ded)

Anrtex - Statements vote (concluded)

and explanations of

Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya - report of the Credentials Committee and Final Act

Spain - Final Act United Republic of Cameroon -Final Act

Fifty-eighth plenaryrrieeting 281

Explanation of vote

Statements on Protocols I and II

Statement Sovereign

by the Observer Order of Malta

for the

Statement by the Observer for the International Union for Child Welfare

Draft resolution CDDH/444 expressing gratitude to the host country


Denmark - Protocols I and II Holy See - Protocols I and II Mauritania - Protocols I and II Mozambique - Protocols I and II New Zealand - Protocols I and II

Fifty-ninth (closing) plenary meeting 329

Closing speeches

Signature of the Final Act

Closure of the Conference

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VOLUME VIII

SUMMARY RECORDS OF COMMITTEE I

1. First seSSlon (CDDH/I/SR.1-16) ............. . 1

First meeting 5


Second meeting .............................. 7

Consideration of draft Protocol I

Article 1 - Scope of the present Protocol

Third meeting ............................... 17

Consideration of draft Protocol I (continued)

Article 1 - Scope of the present Protocol (continued)

Fourth meeting .............................. 25



Fifth meeting ............................... 33

Tribute to the memory of Mrs. Pierre Graber




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I. First session (CDDH/I/SR.1-16) (contin~ed)

Sixth meeting 43

Consideration of draft (continued)

Protocol I

Article 1 - Scope of Protocol (continued)

the present

Seven·th me·e·ting ............................. 51


Consideration of draft Protocol (continued)

I


Sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) Sub-paragraph (cT Sub-paragraphs Cd) and (e) Proposed new sub=paragraphs (f) and (g)

Proposed new Article 2 bis

Eighth meeting .............................. 59


Protocol I


Article 2 - Definitions (continued)

Article 3 - Beginning and application

end of

Article 4 - Legal to the conflict

status of the Parties


Ninth meeting 67


I

Article 3 - Beginning and application (continued)

end of

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1. First seSSlon (CDDH/ I!SR .1-16) (continued)

Ninth meeting (concluded)


I

Protection of journalists engaged in dangerous missions in areas of armed conflict

Proposed new Article 4 bis (continued)

Article 4 - Legal status of to the conflict (continued)

the Parties

Tenth meeting ............................... 71


I

Article 3 - Beginning and application (continued)

end of

Eleventh meeting 77


I

Article 2 - Definitions the eighth meeting)

(resumed from

Sub-paragraphs (d) and (e) from the seventh-meeting)

(resumed


Twelfth meeting 87


I

Article 1 - Scope (resumed from the

of the present sixth meeting)

Protocol

Article 5 - Appointment of Protecting Powers and of their substitute (concluded)

Commemoration of the Sharpeville affair

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I. First seSSlon (CDDHIIlSR.1-16) (concluded)

Thirteenth meeting 97


Article 1 - Scope of the present Protocol (contitiued)

Fourteenth meeting 105

Consideration of draft Protocol I (concluded)

Article 1 - Scope of the present Protocol (concluded)

Fifteenth meeting ........................... 115

Adoption of the report of the Committee

Sixteenth (closing) meeting 123

Adoption of the report of the (concluded)


Committee

II. Second seSSlon (CDDH/I/SR.17-41) ........... . 131

Seventeenth (opening) meeting ......... ...... 141

Introduction by the Chairman

Election of Rapporteur



Paragraph 3

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II. Second seSSlon (CDDH/I/SR.17-41) (continued)

Eighteenth meeting 155


I

Article 5 - Appointment of Protecting Powers and of their substitute (continued)

Paragraph 3 (continued)

Paragraph 4

Paragraphs 5 and 6

Nineteenth meeting 171


I

Article 5 - Appointment of Protecting Powers and of their substitute (continued)

Paragraphs 3, 4, 5 and 6 (cotitinued)

Article 6 - Qualified persons

Article 7 - Meetings

Twentieth meeting ........ ............ ...... 185


I

Article 7 - Meetings (continued)

Article 7 bis - Inquiry procedure concerning alleged violation of the Conventions

Article 7 ter disagreements

- Settlement of

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Twenty-first meeting ... .................... 191


I


Sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) Sub-paragraph(c} Sub-paragraphs T~) and (e)

Proposed new sub-paragraphs (f) and (g)

Article 3 - Beginning and application

end of



Twenty-second meeting 201

Consideration of draft Protocol II

Article 1 - Material field application

of

Article 2 - Personal field of application

Twenty-third meeting 215


Article 1 - Material field of application (contin~ed)

II

Article 2 - Personal field of application (contin~ed)



Twenty-fourth meeting 229


II

Article 1 - Material field of application (continued)

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Twenty-fourth meeting (conclud~d)


II

Article 2 - Personal field application (continued)

of

Article 3 - Legal status of the to the conflict (continued)

Parties


Article Parties

5 - Rights and duties of to the conflict

the

Twenty-fifth meeting 241


Setting up of a working group on the question of the protection of journalists engaged in dangerous missions in areas of armed conflict

Twenty-sixth meeting .............. ......... 247

Consideration of draft Protocol I (resumed from the twenty-first meeting)

Report to 7

of Working Group A on Articles 2

Article 2 - Definitions (~oncluded)

Sub-paragraphs (~) and (~)

Article 3 - Beginning and application (concluded)

end of

Article 4 - Legal status of the to the conflict (concluded)

Parties

Article 5 - Appointment of Protecting Powers and of their sUbstitute (r~Sumed from the nineteenth meeting)

Paragraph 4 bis

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II. Second session (CDDH/I/SR.17-41) (continued)

Twenty-sixth meeting (concluded)

Consideration of draft Protocol I <continued)

Article 6 - Qualified persons (concluded)

Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2

Paragraph 3

Paragraph 4

Twenty-seventh meeting


Report of Working Group A on Articles 2 to 7 (continued)

Article 5 - Appointment of Protecting Powers and of.their sUbstitute (continued)

Paragraph 4 bis

Paragpaph 1

Paragraph 2

Paragraph 3

Paragraph 4

Paragraph 5

Paragraph 6

Paragraph 7

Statement by the representative of the Sovereign Order of Malta

253

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Twenty-eighth meeting 271


I

Report of Working Group A on to 7 (concluded)

Articles 2

Article 5 - Appointment of Protecting Powers and of their sUbstitute (concluded)

Article 7 - Meetings (concluded)

Other business

Twenty-ninth ~eeting 285

Consideration of draft Protocol II (r~sumed from the twenty-fourth meeting)

Report of Working Group B on Articles 1 to 5

Article 1 - Material field application(~oncluded)

of

Article 2 - Personal field application (concluded)

of

Article,3 - Legal status of the to the conflict (~oncluded)

Parties


Thirtieth meeting.... ...................... 299


II

Report of Working Group to 5 (concluded)

B on Articles 1

Article 4 - Non-intervention (concluded)

Article Parties

5 - Rights and duties of the to the conflict (~oncluded)

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Thirty-first ~eeting ..............•........ 311

Consideration of draft Protocol I (re sUlnedfrorri thetwenty-eighthrrie"eting)

Report of the: Ad Hoc Working Group on the Protection of Journalists engaged Dangerous Missions

in


Thirty-second meeting ...................... 323

Consideration of draft Protocol II (resurriedfrorrithethirtieth meeting)


Article hors de

7 - Safeguard of combat

an enemy

Article 8 - Persons whose been restricted

liberty has

Thirty-third ~eeting ....................... 343


II

Join~ Working Group to question of reprisals

consider the

Article 8 - Persons whose liberty has been restricted (continued)

Article 9 - Principles of penal law

Article 10 - Penal prosecutions

Thirty-fourth meeting ...................... 357


II

Article 10 - Penal (concluded)

prosecutions

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Thirty-fifth meeting ....................... 367

Consideration (resumed from

of draft Protocol I the thirty-first meeting)

Report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Protection of Journalists engaged in Dangerous Missions (~esumed f~om the thirty-first meeting and concluded)


Thirty-sixth meeting 377


Thirty-seventh meeting ..................... 383

Consideration of draft Protocol I (resumed from the thirty-fifth meeting)


Proposed new Article 70 bis Activities of the Red Cross humanitarian organizations

-and other

Article forces

71 - Legal advisers in armed


Article 73 - Rules of application

Article 74 - Repression of breaches the present Protocol

of

Article 75 - Perfidious protective signs

use of the



Article 78 - Extradition

Article 79 - Mutual criminal matters

assistance ln


~t&t@mgfit by fft@ §~§§PV§P f§P Amfi~§ty Interrtati§fial

-. ~~ ,-~- -.

II. Second seSSlon (CDDH/I/SR.17-41) (continuec)

Thirty~eighth meeting 403


Protocol I

Report of Working Group A 70 bis, 71, 72 and 73

on Articles 70,

Article 70 - Measures (concluded)

for execution

Proposed new Article 70bis -Activities of the Red Cross and other humanitarian organizations (concluded)

Article 71 - Legal advisers forces (concluded)

in armed

Article 72 - Dissemination (concluded)

Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2

Paragraph 3

Article 73 - Rules (concluded)

of application

Thirty-ninth ~~eting 411

Consideration of draft Protocol II (resumed from the thirty-f6urth meeting)

Report of Working Group 6 bis and 8

B on Articles 6,

Article 6 - Fundamental (concluded)

guarantees

Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2(a)

Paragraph 2(b)

Paragraph 2(c)

Paragraphs 2(3), (e) and (f)

Paragraph 2 c,g)

Paragraph 3

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II. Second session (CDDH/I/SR.17-41) (concluded)

Thirty:...ninth meeting (concluded)

Consideration of draft Protocol II (continued)

Article 6 bis (concluded)

Article 8 - Persons whose liberty has been restricted(coticl~ded)

Paragraphs l(~) and (b)

Paragraph l(c)

Paragraph l(d)

Paragraphs l(~) and 2(~), (b) and (c)

Paragraph 2(d)

Paragraph 3

Paragraph 4

Paragraph 5

Fortieth meeting 421


II

Report of Working Group 6 bis and 8 (concluded)



B on Articles 6,

Forty-fi~st (c16~ing) ~eeting 431

Adoption of the report of Commit.tee


I

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VOLUME IX

SUMMARY RECORDS OF COMMITTEE I

1. Third seSSlon (CDDH/I/SR.42-65) ............ . 1

Forty-second (opening) meeting 9


Forty-third meeting ..... ................ .... 15



Article 75 - Perfidious use of the protective slgns




Article 79 - Mutual assistance In criminal matters

of

Forty-fourth meeting ........................ 27


Article 74 - Repression of breaches of the present Protocol (continued)

Article 75 - Perfidious use of the protective signs (continued)

Article 76 - Failure to act (~ontinued)

Article 77 - Superior orders (continued)

Article 78 - Extradition (continued)

Article 79 - Mutual assistance In criminal matters (continued)


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I. Third session (CDDH/I/SR.42-65) (continued)

Forty-fifth meeting ........................ .43


Article 74 - Repression of breaches of the present Protocol (contin~ed)

Article 75 - Perfidious use of the protective signs (continued)

Article 76 - Failure to act (continued)

Article 77 - Superior orders (continued)



Forty-sixth meeting ......................... 55


Article 74 - Repression of breaches of the present Protocol (continued)

New Article 74 bis

Forty-seventh.meeting .... ........ ........... 67

Communication from a non-governmental organization


Article 74 - Repression of breaches of the present Protocol (contitiued)

New Article 74 bis (continued)

Forty-eighth meeting ..... ....... .... •... .... 83



New Article 70 bis (Reprisals)

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Third session (CDDH/I/SR.42-55) (continued)

Forty-ninth meeting ............... ...... .... 97


Protocol I

Article 75 - Perfidious use of the protective signs (resumed from the forty-fifth meeting)

Fiftieth meeting 109



I

New Article 75 bis - Repatriation close of hostilities

on

Article 75 - Failure to act (resumed from the forty-fifth meeting)

New Article commanders

7fi bis - Duty of

Fifty-first meeting 123

Tribute to the memory of Mr. Lopez-Herrarte, Permanent Representative of Guatemala to the International Organizations at Geneva and Head of the delegation of Guatamala


I

New Article 7fi bis - Duty of commanders (contInued)

Article 77 - Superior orders (resumed from the forty-fifth meeting)

Fifty-~econd meeting ............ .... ........ 137


I

Article 77 . Superior orders (continued)

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1. Third seSSlon (CDDHIIlSR.42-6 5) (continued)

Fifty-third meeting ......................... 147


I

Article 78 - Extradition the forty-fifth meeting)

(~esumed f~om

New Article 7S bis

Article 79 - Mutual assistance in criminal matters (resumed from the forty-fifth me~ting)

Fifty-fourth meeting ........................ 161


I


New Article 78bis <Continued)

Article 79 - Mutual assistance in criminal matters (continued)

Fifty-fifth meeting .. ................. ...... 179


I



Article 79 - Mutual assistance in criminal matters (continued)

Fifty-sixth meeting ................. ........ 189


I


New Article 79 bis

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1. Third session (CDDH/I/SR.42-65) (continued)

Fifty-seventh meeting 207


I

New Article 79 bis (~ontinued)

Fifty~eighth meeting .............. .... ...... 223


Protocol I

New Article 79 bis (~ontinued)


II



Article 38 - Special agreements

Article 39 observance

- Co-operation in the of the present Protocol


Fifty-ninth meeting 237

Corrections to the provisional records of Committee I

summary


II

Article 36 - Measures (continued)

for execution

Article 37 - Dissemination (continued)

Article 38 - Special agreements (continued)

Article 39 - Co-operation in the observance of the present Protocol (continued)

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1. Third session (CDDH/I/SR.42-55) (continued)

Sixtieth meeting ............................ 255

Consideration of draft Protocol I (resumed from thefifty-eighthrrieeting)

Report of Working Group A


of

Sixty-first rrieeting ......................... 259


I

Report of Working Group A (con~luded)

Article 74 - Repression of breaches 'the present Protocol (concluded)

of

Article 75 - Failure to act (concluded)

Sixt:y-second meeting.............. ..... ... .. 285

Consideration of draft Protocol II (resurried from the fifty-ninth meeting)

Report of Working Group B

Article ~5 ~ Measures (concluded)

for execution


Sixty-third meeting ................. .... .... 291


II

Report of Working Group B (concluded)

Article 37 - Dissemination (concluded)

Article 38 - Special agreements (concluded)

Article 39 - Co-operation in the observance of the present Protocol (concluded)

New Article 10 (concluded)


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I. Third session (CDDH/I/SR.42-65) (concTuded)

Sixty-fou~th meeting ....................... 305

Consideration of draft Protocols I and II (continued)

Articles 74 and 76 of draft Protocol I, Articles 36 to 39 and new Article 10 of draft Protocol II, adopted by Committee I


Sixty-fifth (closing) meeting 325

Adoption of the report of


Committee I

II. Fourth session (CDDH/I/SR.66-79) .......... . 339

Sixty-si~th(opening) me~ting 349

Opening statement by the


Chairman

Sixty-seventh meeting .......... ............ 355


Consideration of draft Protocols and II

I

Draft Protocol I

Part V bis - Obligation reparation for breaches Protocol

to of

make the present

Part VI - Final provisions

Draft Protocol II

Part VIII

Preambles

- Final provisions

IntrQduction of amendments


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II. Fourth session (CDDH/I/SR.66-79) (continued)

Sixty-eighth meeting ................. ...... 369

Consideration of draft Protocols I and II (continued )

Draft Protocol I

Article 84 - Treaty relations upon entry into force of the present Protocol

Paragraph 3


Sub-paragraph (3)


Final provisions and Preamble

Introduction of amendments

New A~ticle 84 bis

Article 85 - Reservations

New Article 8& bis

Sixty-ninth meeting 381


Draft Protocol I

Final provisions and Preamble (continued)

Introduction of amendments (concluded)

Article 90 - Authentic texts and official translations

Preamble

Report of Working Group A on Articles 76 bis, 77, 78 and 79


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II. Fourth session (CDDH/I/SR.66-79) (continued)

Seventieth ~eeting .......................... 389

Consideration0f draft Protocols and II (continued)

I

Draft Protocol I

Report of Working Group A on Articles 76 bis, 77, 78 and 79 (concluded) -

Article

Article

77

76

- Superior orders

bis

(concluded)


Article 79 - Mutual assistance 2n criminal matters

Addendum to the report of Working Group A

Part V bis - Obligation to make reparation for breaches of the present Protocol (concluded)

Seventy-first meeting 399

Consideration of draft Protocols and II (continued)

Draft' Protocol I

I

Explanations of

Other business

vote

Seventy~second meeting 417


I

Draft Protocol I

Report of Working Group B

New article before Article violations

70 - Grave

Article 70 bis (b) - Reprisals

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II. Fourth session (CDDHII/SR.66-79) (continued)

Seventy-second meeting (concluded)


Article 74 bis - Exceptional measures in the event of grave breaches

Article 79 bis - International Enquiry Commission

Title

Paragraph 1

Sub-paragraph (b) Sub-paragraph (d)

Paragraph 2

Paragraph 3

Paragraph 4

Paragraph 5

Paragraph 6

Paragraph 7

Seventy-ihird meeting


Draft Protocol II

Report of Working Group B (concluded)


Paragraph 2(b)

Paragraph 3

Article 10 bis - Prohibition of reprisals

Article 6 (concluded)

Paragra~h 3 (concluded)

Procedure concerning explanations of vote


427

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Fourth session (CDDHIIlSR.66-79) (continued)

Seventy-fourth meeting ..................... 461


Draft Protocol I

I


Sub-paragraph (c)

New Article 2 bis

Sub-paragraph (a) Sub-paragraph(~)

Article 74 - Repression of breaches of the present Protocol

Paragraph 3, new sub-paragraph (&)

Article 75 bis - Repatriation on close of hostilities

Article 78 bis - Treatment of convicted prisoners of war

Part V - New' Section III - Draft Code of International Crimes in Violation of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the draft additional Protocols

Seventy-fifth meeting ...................... 471


Seventy-sixth meeting 473


Report of Working Group C

Draft Protocol I

I

Article

Article

80

81

- Signature

- Ratification



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II. Fourth seSSlon (CDDH/I/SR.66-79) (continued)

seventy-sixth meeting (concluded)


Article 84 - Treaty relations upon entry into force of this Protocol


Article 87 - Denunciation



Article 90 - Authentic texts and official translations

Draft Protocol II

Article 40 - Signature






Article, 46 - {-Registration_/

Article 47 - I Authentic texts al1u official translations 7 Article 44 bis - Denunciation

Draft Protocol I

Preamble

Draft Protocol II

Preamble

Draft Protocols I and II

Titles

Draft Protocol I

Article 85 - Reservations

Article 86 bis

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II. Fourth seSSlon (CDDHIIlSR.66-79) (concluded)

Seventy-seventh meeting .................... 481


I

Draft Protocol I

Report of Working Group C(concluded)

Article 86 bis(concluded)

Addendum to the report

Paragraph 4(a)

Paragraph 4(b) 1

Paragraph 4(b) 2

Paragraph 4(b) 4

Article 74 - Represssion of breaches the present Protocol (continued)

of

Proposed paragraph 3{g) (continued)

Article 7 bis concerning an Convention

- Enquiry procedure alleged violation of the

Article 7 ter disagreements

- Settlement of


Seventy-eigfith"·mee-tiJ1.g ..................... 513

Consideration of draft Protocols and II (concluded)

I

Draft Protocol I

Article 74 - Repression of breaches the present Protocol (concluded)

of

Article 75 bis of hostilities

- Repatriation (concluded)

on close

Seventy-ninth (closing) meeting 519

Adoption of the draft report of Committee I


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VOLUME X

REPORTS OF COMMITTEE I

I. First seSSlon (CDDH/48/Rev.l) ............ . 1

II. Second session (CDDH/219/Rev.l) .......... . 19

1. Report to Committee I on the work of Working Group A (CDDH/I/235/Rev.l) ..... 67

2. Report to Committee I of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the protection of journalists engaged in dangerous missions (CDDH/I/237, incorporating CDDH/ I /237/ Corr. 1 and 2) ............... 75

3. Report to Committee I on the work of Working Group B (CDDH/I/238/Rev.l) ..... 93

4. Report of Working Group A to Committee I on Articles 70 to 73 of draft Protocol I (CDDH/I/285/Rev.l) 99

5. Report to Committee I on the proceedings of Working Group B (CDDH/I/287/Rev.l) ..................... 103

III. Third session (CDDH/234/Rev.l) .............. III

1. Report to Committee I on the work of Working Group B on the new Article 10 of draft Protocol II (CDDH/I/317/Rev.2) ..................... 143

2. Report on the work of Working Group B on Article 10 bis of draft Protocol II (see below, CDDH/405/Rev.1. Annex II) ..

3. Report to Committee I on the work of Working Group A on Article 76 of Protocol I (CDDH/I/321/Rev.l) ....... . 153


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III. Third seSSlon (CDDH/234/Rev.l) (~oncluded)

4. Report to Committee I on the work of Working Group B concerning Articles 36 to 39 of draft Protocol II (CDDHIIl3 2 3 IRev.1) .................. . 155

5. Report to Committee I on the work of Working Group A (CDDH/I/324) ........ . 159

IV. Fourth session (CDDH/40S/Rev.l) including: ............................... . 177

Report of Working Group A and Addendum (CDDH/I/33BIRev.l and Add.l) ......... 211

Report of Working Group B and Addendum (CDDH/I/349/Rev.l and Add.l) ......... 217

Report on the work of Working Group B on Article 10 bis of draft Protocol II (CDDHIIl32.o/Rev.2) ...... ......... .... 233

Report of Working Group C on final clauses (CDDHIII3S.o/Rev.l) ........... 237

Report on the work of Working Group C on Article 86 bis of draft Protocol I (CDDH/I/3S0/Rev.l/Add.l/Rev.l) ....... 254

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VOLUME XI

SUMMARY RECORDS OF COMMITTEE II

1. First session (CDDH/II/SR.1-12) ............ . 1

First Meeting 5


Seccnd meeting .............................. 15


Statement by the Chairman

Establishment of a Drafting Committee



Articles 8 to 20

Third meeting 21



Sub-paragraph (~)

Fourth meet ing ............... "............... 25



Sub-paragraph (a)


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I. First session (CDDHIII/SR.1-12) (continued)

Fifth meeting 33



Protocol I

Articles 8 to 20 secondrrieeting)

(resumed frorrithe

Article 8 - Definitions (~ontinued)

Sub-paragraph (a) Sub-paragraph(~)

(contintied)

Sixth meet'ing ............................... 41

Tribute to the memory Mrs. Pierre Graber

of



I

Article 8 - Definitions (~ontinued)

Sub-paragraph (b) Sub-paragraph (c) third meeting) -

(~ontinued)

(resumed from the

Seventh me'eting ............................. 49


Consideration of (continued)

draft Protocol I

Article 8 - Definitions (concluded)

Sub-paragraph (Q)


Eighth meeting 59

Consideration of craft Protocol (continued)

I

Article 9 - Field of (concluded)

application


- 80 _.

I. First seSSlon (CDDH/II/SR.1-12) (concluded)

Ninth meeting 67

Consideration of 'draft Protocol I (continued)

Article 10 - Protection and care (continued)

Teni:h meeting ............................... 73


Article 10 - Protection and care (concluded)


Eleventh meeting 83

Adoption of the reports of the Committee, the Technical Sub-Committee and the Drafting Committee

Twelfth (closing) meeting 93

Adoption of the reports of the Committee, the TechDical Sub-Committee and the Drafting Committee (concluded)


II. Second session (CDDH/II/SR.13-35) 103

Thil'teenth.(0pening) meeting ............ .... 113

Opening statement by the Chairman

Election to vacant posts


Article 12 - Medical Units

- 81

II. Second sess~on (CDDH/II/SR.13-35) (continued)

Fourteenth meeting ......................... 119



I

Article 12 - Medical units (continued)

Paragraph 1

Title


Article 13 - Discontinuance of protection of civilian medical units

Fifteenth m~eting ................... ... .... 131

Tribute to the memory of Mme Paul Graber, Mother of the President of the Conference



I

Article 14 - Requisitions

Artic~e 15 - Civilian medical and religious personnel

Sixteenth meeting 143



I

Article 15 - Civilian medical and religious personnel (continued)


- 82

II. Second session (CDDH/IIISR.13-3S) (continued)

Seventeenth meeting .. ......... ............. 155


I


Article 16 - General protection of medical duties (continued)

Article 17 population

- Role of the civilian



I





I

Article,15 - Civilian medical and religious personnel (resumed from the seventeenth meeting)



Proposed new Article 18 and dead: graves

bis - Missing

- 83 ~

II. Second seSSlon (CDDHIIIISR.13-35) (continued)

Twentieth meeting ................ .......... 189


I

Proposed new Article 18 bis - Missing and dead: graves (contin:Ued)

Article 19 - States not parties to a conflict



Twenty-first meeting 201



General discussion of Part III

Twenty-~ecotid meeting 213

Consideration of draft Protocol I (resumed from the twentieth meeting)

Article 18 - Identification (resumed from 'the eighteenth meeting)

Report of the Working Group on Article 18




Report of the Drafting Committee on Articles 9-13, 15-17, 19, 20

Article 9 - Field of application (concluded)

Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2

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II. Second session (CDDH/IT/SR.13-35) (continued)

Twenty-third ~eeting (concluded)




Paragraphs 1 and 2

Paragraph 3

L Paragraph 4 7 Article 12 - Medical units (concluded)

Article 13 - Discontinuance of protection of civilian medical units (concluded)

,

Paragraphs 1 and 2

Paragraph 2 (b)

Paragraph 2 (d)

Article 15 - Protection of civilian meQical and religious personnel

Twenty-fourth m~eting


Report of the Drafting Committee on Articles 9-13, 15-17, 19, 20 (continued)

Articles 15-17 (continued)

Article 15 - Protection of civilian medical and religious personnel (continued)

Paragraphs 1 and 2

Paragraphs 3-6

Article 16 - General protection of medical duties (concluded)

Article'17 - Role of the civilian popUlation and of relief societies

235

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II. Second seSSlon (CDDH/II/SR.13-35) (continued)

T~ertty-fifth ~eeting . ......... ..... ..... ... 245


I

Report of the Drafting Committee on Articles 9-13, 15-17, 19, 20 (continued)

Article 19 - I-Neutral or other 7 States not parties to a conflict

Article 20 - Prohibition of reprisals (concluded)


Consideration of draft Protocol II (resunied from the twenty-first ~eeting)

General discussion of Part III from the twenty-first meeting)

(~esumed


Twenty-sixth meeting .......... ............. 257


I

Report of the Drafting Committee on Articles 9-13, 15-17, 19, 20 (concluded)

Article 19 - I-Neutral or other 7 States not parties to a conflict (concluded)


II

Article 12 - Protection and (continued)

care


- s;:;

II. Second session (CDDH/II/SR .13-3 5) (continued)

Twenty-seventh meeting ..................... 269

Organization of .work


II

Article 13 - Search and (continued)

evacuation

Article 14 population

- Role of the civilian

Article 15 personnel

- Medical and religious



II

Article 15 - Medical and personnel (contiti~ed)

religious


Article 17 transports

- Medical units and

Article,18 - The distinctive emblem


Twenty-ninth meeting ....................... 293

Consideration of draft Protocol I (resumed from the twenty-sixth meeting)

Report of the Drafting Committee on Articles 8, 11, 14, 15, 17 and 18


Article 14 - Limitation on requisition of civilian medical units (con~luded)


- 87

lI.Second session (CDDH/II/SR.13-35) (continued)

Thirtieth meeting ........................... 305


I

Report of the Drafting Committee Articles 11, 14, 15, 17 and 18 (continued)

on

Article 11 - Protection of persons (continued)

Article 15 - Protection of civilian medical and religious personnel (continued)

Article 17 - Role of the population and of relief

civilian societies


Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2

Paragraph 3

Paragraph 4 to 8

Progress made by Working Groups

Thirty-firpt meeting 317



I

Brief reports by the Chairmen various Working Groups

of the

Consideration of draft Protocol II (resumed from the twenty-eighth meeting)

Article 15 - Medical and religious personnel (resumed from the twenty-eighth meeting)

Article 16 - General protection of medical duties (resumed from the twentyeighth meeting)

Article 18 - The distinctive emblem (resumed from the twenty-eighth meeting)

- 88

II. Second session (CDDH/II/SR.13-35) (~ontitiued)

Thirty-second meeting 3 ',ryL I

Consideration of draft Protocol I (resumed from the thirtieth meeting)

Proposals by the Working Group Articles 10 and 11

on

Article 18 - Identification from the thirtieth meeting)

(re~umed

Paragraph 3


II

Article 19 - Prohibition of reprisals (resumed from the twenty-eighth meeting)

Thirty~third meeting ....................... 339

Consideration of draft Protocol (coptinued)

II

Article 19 - Prohibition of reprisals (continued)

ThirtY-fourth.meeting 349

Conside~ation of draft Protocol (continued)

II

Proposed new Article 19 - Foreign States

quinquies

Consideration of draft Protocol (resumed from the thirty-second meeting)

I

Proposed new Section in draft Protocol I (replacing proposed Article 18 bis) (resumed from the twentieth meeting)

Text submitted by the Working Group

- 89

II. Second seSSlon (CDDH/II/SR .13-35) (concluded)

Thirty-fifth meeting .................. ..... 363


I

Proposed new Section in draft Protocol I (replacing proposed Article 18bis) (continued)

Text submitted (continued)

by the Working Group

III. Second session (CDDH/II/SR.36-55) 377

Thirty-s ixth meeting ...................... 389


I


Article 22 - Search for wounded

Article 23 - Application

Article 24 - Protection

Article 25 - Notification

Thirty~seyenth meeting ..... ............ ... 395

Message of condolence Mme Paul Graber

on the death of


I


Sub-paragraph (a) Sub-paragraph (b) Sub-paragraph (c) Sub-paragraphs (3) and (e)

Article 22 - Search for wounded (continued)

Article 23 - Application (continued)

Article 24 - Protection (continued)

Article 25 - Notification (continued)

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III. Second session (CDDH/IIISR.36-55) Cco"ntinued)

Thirty-eighth meeting ...................... 407



I

Article 23 - Application (continued)

Article 24 - Protection (continued)

Article 25 - Notification (~6ntinued)

Reports of the Working Groups

Thirty-ninth meeting 419


Consideration of draft Protocol <continued)

I

Article 11 - Protection of persons (concluded)


Consideration of draft Protocol II (resumed from the thirty-fourth meeting)

Article 16 - General protection of medical,duties (resumed from the thirtyfirst meeting)

Paragraph Group

3 - Proposal by the Working

fortieth meeting 429


II

Article 18 - The distinctive emblem (resumed from the thirty-first meeting)

Proposal by the Working Group

Article 16 - General protection of medical duties (con!inued)

Paragraph 3 - Proposal by Group (continued)

the Working

- 91

III. Second seSSlon (CDDH/I.I/SR.36-55) (continued)

FortY-first meeting ........................ 447


II


Paragraph 3 - Proposal by the Working Group (~dntinued)

Forty-second meeting ....................... 458



Paragraph 3 - Proposal by the Working Group (contin~ed)


Article 15 - Medical and religious personnel (resumed from the thirtyfirst meeting)


Article 18 - The distinctive emblem (resumed from the fortieth meeting)

Report of the Working Group

Forty-third meeting ........... .......... ... 471


Protocol II

Article 19 - Prohibition of reprisals (resumed from the thirty-third meeting)

Joint Working Group reprisals .

on the concept of


Article 15 - Medical and personnel (continued)

religious

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III. Second session (CDDH/ IIISR. 36-55) (continued)

Forty-third meeting (concluded)



Article 18 - The distinctive emblem (continued)

Report of the Working Group (~ontinued)

Report of the Joint Working Groups on terms to cover various military situations

Forty-fourth meeting

Expression of sympathy on the death of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia

Consideration of draft Protocol I (resumed from the thirty-ninth meeting)

Article 15 - Protection of civilian medical and religious personnel (concluded)

Paragraph 2

Article 17 - Role of the civilian population and of relief societies (resumed from the thirtieth meeting)

Paragraph 1

Article 18 - Identification (resumed from the thirtieth meeting)

Paragraph 3


Article 17 - Role of the civilian population and of relief societies (continued)

Paragraph 2 (continued)

485

- 93

III. Second seSSlon (CDDHIIIISR.36-55) (coritinued)

Forty-fourth meeting (concluded)


Report of the Drafting Committee on Articles 12 to 18


Article 12 bis - Protection of persons (coIi'cluded)

Article 13 - Search and evacuation (concluded)

Article 14 - Role of the civilian population and of relief societies (concluded)

Article 15 - Protection of medical and religious personnel (~oncluded)

Article 16 - General protection of medical duties (concluded)

Article 17 - Protection of medical units and transports

Article 18 - The distinctive emblem and s'ignals

Forty-fifth meeting


Report of the Drafting Committee on Articles 12 to 18 (concluded)

Article 18 - The distinctive emblem and signals(conclud~d)


Articles 26 to 32 - Medical air transport

Article 26 - Sectors controlled by national and allied forces

501

_. 94

III. Second session (CDDH/II/SR.36-55) (continued)

Torty-fifth meeting (concluded)


Article 27 - Contact zone

Article 28 - Sectors controlled by enemy forces

Article 29 - Restrictions

Article 30 - Agreements and notifications

Article 31 - Landing

Article 32 - States not parties to the conflict

Proposed new Article 26 - General protection of medical aircraft


Torty-s ixth meeting. . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

Consideration of draft.Protocol II (continued)


Paragraphs 3 and 4

Statement by the Head of the Norwegian delegation


Proposed new Articles 26 to 32 - Medical air transport

Proposed new Article 26 - General protection of medical aircraft (continued)

Proposed new Article 26 bis - Land areas controlled by friendly forces, and sea areas not controlled by the adverse Party

Article 27 - Contact zone

- 95

III. Second sess~on (CDDHIII/SR.36-55) (continued)

Forty'-seventhmeeting 525


Protocol I

Proposed new Articles 26 to 32 - Medical air transport (continued)

Proposed new Article 28 - Areas controlled by enemy forces

Article 29 - Restrictions

Article 30 - Agreements notifications

and

Forty-eighth meeting 539


I

Article 31 - Landing

Proposed new Articles 26 to 32 - Medical air transport (concluded)

Proposed new Article and inspection

31 - Landing

Proposed new Article 32 - I-Neutral or other 7 States not parties to the conflict


Forty-ninth meeting 551

Condolences on the death of Colonel Kjell Modahl of the delegation

Norwegian


Protocol I

Report of the Working Group and the Drafting Committee on Articles 21 to 25

General discussion

Artic'le 21 - Definitions (concluded)

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III. Second seSSlon (CDDH/II/SR.36-55) (continued)

Forty-ninth meeting (concluded)


Article 22 - Medical vehicles (concluded)

Article 23 - Hospital ships and coastal rescue craft (d6ncluded)


Article 18 - Identification (concluded)

Paragraph 4


Sub-paragraph (b)

Consideration by the Working Groups of:

Section 1 (bis) (replacing proposed Article 18 bis) (draft Protocol I) (resumedfrOri1the thirty-fifth meeting)

Article 19 - Prohibition of repri$als (draft Protocol II) (resumed from the forty-third meeting)

Fiftieth mee~ing

Consideration of draft Protocol II (resumed from the forty-sixth meeting)

Article 19 - Prohibition of reprisals (continued)


Report of the Technical Sub-Committee on Signs and Signals

565

- 97

III. Second sess.J.on (CDDH/II/SR.36-55) (continued)

FiftY-first meeting .... ......... ..... ... ... 577


Protocol I

Article 54 - Definition

Article 55 operations

- Zones of military

Article 56 - Occu]ied territories

Article 57 - Civil defence bodies of States not parties to a conflict and international bodies



General discussion


Protocol II

Article 30 - Respect and protection


Fifty-second meeting ...... .... ............. 589


I

Report of the Drafting Articles 26 to 29

Committee on

Proposed new Article 26 - Protection of medical aircraft (concluded)

Proposed new Article 26 bis - Medical aircraft in areas not controlled by an adverse Party (concluded)

Proposed new Article 27 aircraft in contact and zones (~6n~luded)

- Medical similar

Proposed new Article 28 - Medical aircraft in areas controlled by an adverse Party (concTuded)

- 98

III. Second seSSlon (CDDH/II/SR.36-55) (continued)

Fifty-second meeting (concluded)


Proposed new Article 29 - Restrictions on operations of medical aircraft (concluded)

Proposed new Section I bis (replacing ]X'oposed Article l8bis)"":: Report of the Working Group (resu:med from the forty-ninth meeting)

Fifty-third meeting ........................ 597


Proposed new Article 30 - Agreements and notifications concerning medical aircraft (concluded)


Consideration of draft resolution on the need for national co-ordination on radiocommunication matters raised in the technical annex to draft Protocol I

Memorandum of the International Frequency Registration Board relating to the need for national co-ordination on radiocommunication matters

Report of the Technical Sub-Committee on Signs and Signals (resumed from the fiftieth meeting)

Consideration of draft Protocol II (resumed from the fifty-first meeting)

Article 17 - Protection of medical units and transports (concluded)

Article 19 - Prohibition of reprisals (resumed from the forty-ninth meeting)

Conside~ation of the draft report of Committee II

- 99

III. Second session (CDDH/II/SR. 36-55 ).CconcTuded)

I Fifty-fourth meeting ....................... 605

Consideration of the draft report of Committee II (continued)

Resolution on the need for national co-ordination on the radiocommunication matters raised in the technical annex to draft Protocol I(dbndl~ded)

Fifty-fifthCclosing)m:eeting .............. 619

Revised resolution on the need for national co-ordination on radiocommunication matters raised in the technical annex to draft Protocol I

Consideration and adoption of report of Committee II

the draft

Paragraph 2 bis

New paragraph 7

Paragraph 8

Paragraph 10

Paragraph 15 bis

Paragraph 31

Paragraph 48

Paragraph 107

Paragraph 155

Paragraph 173

Paragraph 252


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VOLUME XII

SUMMARY RECORDS OF COMMITTEE II

1. Third seSSlon (CDDH/II/SR.56-82) ........... . 1

Fifty-sixth (opening) meeting 13



Consideration of draft Protocols I and II (cotitinued)

Draft Protocol I


Fifty-seventh meeting ....................... 19



Draft Protocol I

Reports of the Drafting Committee

Article 31 - Landing and inspection

Article 32 - Neutral or other States not parties to the conflict

Article 17 - Role of the civilian population

Article 25 - Notification

Draft Protocol II


Article 14 - Role of the civilian popUlation


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1. Third session (CDDHIII/SR.56-82) (continued)

Fifty-eighth ~eeting ........................ 29

Consideration of draft Protocols and II (~6ntinued)

I

Draft Protocol I

Reports of the (continued)

Drafting Committee

Article 31 - Landing and (continued)

inspection

Article 32 - Neutral or other States not parties to the conflict (continued)

Article 17 - Role of the population (dotitinued)

civilian


Draft Protocol II

Report of the Drafting Commit.tee (continued)

Article 14 - Role of the population (continued)

civilian

Draft Protocol I

Article 31 - Landing and (continued)

inspection

Article 32 - Neutral or other States not parties to the conflict (concluded)


Fifty-nitith ~eeting ......................... 39


I

Draft Protocol I

Report of the Drafting Committee and of the Working Group on Medical Transports

Article 31 - Landing and (concluded)

ins,pection

Article 24 - Other medical craft (concluded)

ships and

- 102

I. Third session (CDDHIIT/SR.56-82) (continued)

Fifty-ninth meeting (concluded)

Consideration of Draft Protocol I (continued)

Article 23 - Hospital ships and coastal rescue craft

Report of the Drafting Committee (continued)

Article 17 - Role of the civilian population (concluded)

Article 25 - Notification ( c·oncluded)

Draft Protocol II

Report of the Drafting Committee (continued)

Article 14 - Role of the civilian population (continued)

·Six·tieth meet·ing .........•..................


Draft Prptocol II

Article 14 - Role of the civilian population (continued)

Draft Protocol I


Article 55 - Zones of military operations

Article 56 - Occupied territories




53

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I. Third session (CDDH/II!SR.56-82) (continued)

Sixty-first mee"ting ......................... 69


I

Draft Protocol I

Article 54 - Definition (continued)


- Zones of military (continued)

Article 56 - Occupied (continued)

territories

Article 57 - Civil defence bodies of States not parties to a conflict and international bodies(c~ntinued)

Article 58 - Cessation of protection (continued)

Article 59 - Identification (continued)

Sixty-second meeting ........................ 85


I

Draft Protocol I


Sixty-third meeting 95

Tribute to the memory of Mr. Lopez-Herrarte, Permanent Representative of Guatemala to the International Organizations at Geneva and Head of the delegation of G6atemala

Consideration of draft Protocols and II (~ontinued)

I

Draft Protocol I


Article 55 - Zones of military operations (resumed from the sixtyfirst meeting)

- 104

I. Third seSSlon (CDDH/IIISR.56-82) (continued)

Sixty-fourth meeting .. ... ...... ......... .... 105


I

Draft Protocol I



Sixty-fifth meeting ............. ............ 117


I

Draft Protocol I

Article 56 - Occupied territories (resumed from the sixty-first meeting)

Sixty~sixth meeting ......................... 127


I

Draft Protocol I

Article 57 - Civil defence bodies of States not parties .to a conflict and international bodies (resumed from the sixt~-first meeting)

New Article 57 bis - General protection

Article 58 - Cessation of protection (resumed from the sixty-first meeting)

Sixty-seventh meeting 139


I

Draft Protocol I

Article 58 - Cessation of protection (continued)

Article 59 - Identification (~esumed from the ~ixty-fir~t me~ting)

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1. Third seSSlon (CDDH/II/SR.56-82) (continued)

Sixty-seventh meeting (concluded)


I

New Article 59 bis - Occupied territories

New Article 59 ter - Status of military units assigned exclusively to civil defence tasks

Draft Protocol II

Article 30

Article 31

- Respect and

- Definition

protection

Sixty-eighth meeting ........................ 149

Consideration of draft Protocols and II (~bntinued)

I

Draft Protocol II

Article 30 - Respect and protection (continued)

Article 31 - Definition (~ontinued)

Draft Protocol I

Provis~onal list of questions to settled concerning civil defence

be

Sixty-ninth meeting ......................... 159


Consideration of draft and II (~ontinued)

Protocols I

Draft Protocol I

Provisional list of questions to settled concerning civil defence (continued)

be

Report of the Technical Sub-Committee

- 106

I. Third seSSlon (CDDH/II/SR.56-82) (continued)

Seventieth meeting 165


I

Draft Protocol I

Report of the Technical (continued)

Sub-Committee

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Draft resolution CDDH/II/363/Rev.l

Draft resolutions CDDH/II/364/Rev.l and CDDH/II/366/Rev.l

Seventy-first meeting 175


I

Draft Protocol I

Report of the Technical Sub-Committee (continued)

Chapter I

Seventy-second meeting 187

Consideration of draft Protocols and II (cotitin~ed)

I

Draft Protocol I


Chapter I (concluded)

Sub~Committee

Other questions

Memorandum submitted by the International Union of Police Trade Unions

- 107

1. Third seSSlon (CDDH/IIISR.56-82) (continued)

Seventy-third meeting 197

Statement by the Chairman

Consideration of draft Protocols and II (dontinued)

I

Draft Protocol II

Proposal by Article 14,

the Working Group on paragraph 3 (concluded)

Draft Protocol I


Paragraph 5


Sub-Committee

Article 14 - Documents

Article 16 - Procedure

Other questions

Letter addressed to the President of the Conference by Mr. J. Pictet, VicePresident of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and Mr. H. Haug, President of the Swiss Red Cross, concerning Articles 9 and 23 of draft Protocol I

Seventy-fourth meeting 207


I

Draft Protocol I

Report of the (continued)

Technical Sub-Committee

Article 16 - Procedure (continued)

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I. Third session (CDDH/II/SR.56-82) (continued)

SeventY-fifth meeting 217


I

Draft Protocol I


Article 8 (e) bis

Article 15 - Protection of civilian medical and religious personnel (concluded)

Paragraph 5

Report of the (continued)

Technical Sub-Committee

Article 2

Draft Protocol I

Article 13 - Discontinuance of protection of civilian medical (concluded)

units

Paragraph 2(9.)

Other questions

Letter addressed to the President of the Conference by Mr. J. Pictet, VicePresident of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and Mr. H. Haug, President of the Swiss Red Cross, concerning Articles 9 and 23 of draft Protocol I (resumed from the seventythird meeting)

Seventy-sixth meeting 227


I

Draft Protocol I

Report of the Working Group

Section Ibis - Information on the victims of-a-conflict and remains of deceased

- 109

I. Third session (CDDH/II/SR.56-82) (cdntinued)

Seventy-seventh niee'ting ..................... 237


Draft Protocol I




I-Article 18 bis - Revision of the annex 7

Seventy-eighth meeting 249

Consideration of draft Protocols I and II (cdntinued)

Draft Protocol I

Report of the Working Group (concluded)

Section I b~s - Information on the victims of-a-conflict and remains of deceased (resumed from the seventysixth meeting)

Seventy-ninth meeting 257


Draft Protocol I

Annex - Model of the identity card


I-Article 18 bis - Revision of the annex 7 (conclUded)

Section Ibis - Information on the victims of-a-conflict and remains of deceased (concluded)

Draft Protocol II

Report, of the Drafting Committee


- 110

I. Third session (CDDH/II/SR. 56-82 ) (concluded)

Eightieth meeting ........................... 267


I

Draft Protocol II

Report of the Drafting ( continued)

Committee


Draft Protocol I

Interim report of the Drafting Committee/ Working Group on Civil Defence


Eighty-first meeting 281


I

Draft Protocol I

Article 15 - Protection of civilian medical and religious personnel (conc:luded)

Paragrap~ 3

Draft Protocol II

Article 15 - Protection of medical and religious personnel (concluded)

Paragraph 1

Draft Protocol I

Article 16 - General protection of medical duties (~oncluded)

Paragraph 3

Interim report of the Drafting Committee/ Working Group on Civil Defence (~ontinued)

Eighty-second (closing) meeting ............. 289

Adoption of the draft report Committee II

of


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Page

II. Fourth session (CDDH/II/SR.83-101) .......... 295

Eighty~third (opening) ~~eting ......... ..... 305


Consideration of draft Protocols and II (cbntinued)

I

Draft Protocol I

Part IV, defence

Section I, Chapter VI - Civil

Articles 54 - 59

Eighty-fourth meeting 311


I

Draft Protocol I

Part IV, Section I, Chapter VI defence (continued)

- Civil


Article

Article

61

62

- Supplies

- Relief actions

Eighty-fifth meeting 321



I

Draft Protocol I

Part IV, Section I, Chapter VI defence (continued)

- Civil



- Zones of military

Article 56 - Occupied territories


- 112

II. Fourth ses Slon (CDDH/ II/SR. 83-101) (continued)

Eighty-fifth meeting (concluded)


I



Eighty-sixth meeting ....................... 327


I

Draft Protocol I

Part IV, Section I, Chapter defence (continued)

VI - Civil




Article 56 - Occupied (continued)

territories

Article 57 - Civil defence bodies of States not parties to a conflict and international bodies (continued)

Article'58 - Cessation of protection (continued)


Eighty-seventh meeting ..................... 333


I

Draft Protocol I

Report of Working Group B on to 62 bis - Relief in favour civilian population

Articles of the

60


Article 61 - Basic needs territories

in occupied

- 113

II. Fourth seSSlon (CDDH/II/SR.83-l0l) (corttinued)

Eighty-seventh meeting (concluded)

Consideration of draft Protocol I (contirtued)


Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2

Paragraph 3

Paragraph 4

Paragraph 5

Eighty-elghth meeting

Consideration of draft Protocols I and II (dontinued)

Draft Protocol I

Report of Working Group B on Articles 60 to 62 bis - Relief in favour of the civilian population (concluded)

New Article 62 bis - Relief personnel

Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2

Paragraph 3

Paragraph 4

Draft Protocol II


Article 34 - Recording and information

Article 35 - National Red Cross and other relief societies

345

- 114

I. Fourth session (CDDH/II/SR.83-101) (continued)

Eighty"':ninthmeeting ... ... ... ........ ....... 355


Draft Protocol I

I


Annex to draft Protocol I

Article 14 - Documents

Article 15 - International distinctive sign for civil defence services

Draft Protocol II

Article

Article

30

31

- Respect and

- Definition

protection

Ninetieth meeting


Draft Protocol I

Report of Working Group A on Article 59 - Identification (continued)

Draft Protocol II

Article 30 - Respect (continued)

and protection


Ninety-first meeting .. ...... ....... ......... 373


Draft Protocol I

I

Report to 59

of Working Group A on Articles 54

Article 54 - Definition and scope (concluded)

Article 55 - General protection (concluded)

Article 56 - Civil defence territories (concluded)

in occupied

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II. Fourth session (CDDH/II/SR.83-101) (continued)

Ninety-second meeting

Consider~tion of draft Protocols and II (continued)

I

Draft Protocol I

Report of Working Group A on Articles 54 to 59 - Civil defence (contin:ued)

Article 57 ~ I-civilian 7 civil defence organizations-of neutral or other States not parties to the conflict and of international co-ordinating organizations


Supplement to the report of Working Group A on civil defence concerning technical annex to draft Protocol I

the

Article 14 - Identity card

Article 15 - International distinctive sign of civil defence

Ninety-third meeting ....................... . , 393

Consideration of draft and II, (continued)

Protocols I

Draft Protocol II

Article 30 - Respect and (continued)

protection

Article 31 - Definition (contitiued)

Ninety-fourth meeting ....... . '.............. . 403


I

Draft Protocol II

Report and 34

of Working Group - Relief

B on Articles 33

Article 33 - Relief societies and relief· actions

- 116

II. Fourth session (CDDH/II/SR.83-101) (continued)

Ninety-fourth meeting (concluded)


Article 33 - Relief societies and relief actions (continued)

Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2

Paragraph 3

Paragraph 4


Ninety-fifth meeting


Draft Protocol II

Report of Working Group B on Articles 33 and 34 - Relief (concluded)

Article 33 - Relief societies and relief actions (continued)

Paragrapb 5

Paragraph 1

Article 34 - Recording and information (concluded)

Draft Protocol I

Report of Working Group A on civil defence


Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2

Paragraph 3

Paragraph 4

413

- 117

II. Fourth sessi6n (CDDH/II/SR.83-101)Ccontinued)

Ninety-sixth 'meeting ........................ 427.


I

Draft Protocol I

Report of Working Group A defence (doncluded)

on Civil

Article 58 - Cessation of protection (concluded)


Article 5S bis - Members of the armed forces and military units assigned to civil defence organizations

Paragraph 1, title and opening sentence

Paragraph Ha)

Paragraph l(b)

Paragraph l(c)

Paragraph H d)

Ninety-seventh meeting ...................... 439

Consideration of draft and II (continued)

Protocols I

Draft Protocol I

Article 59 bis - Members of the armed forces and military units assigned to civil defence organizations (doncluded)

Paragraph H d)

Paragraph lee)

Paragraph Hf)

Paragraph 2

Explanations of .vote

Technical Annex to draft Protocol I

Articl·e 14 - Identity cards

- 118

II. Fourth seSSlon (CDDH/II/SR.83-101) (continued)

Ninety-eighthrrieeting 455


Draft Protocol II

Article 33 - Relief societies and relief actions

Article 30 - Respect and protection (concluded)

Article 31 - Definition (concluded)

Draft Protocol I

Article 59 t~r - Members of the armed forces temporarily performing civil defence tasks

Amendment to Article 8 - Definitions

Sub-paragraph (d) (i) Sub-paragraph (I)

Amendment to Articles 9 and 23

Amendment to Article 9

Paragraph 1

Amendmen,t to Article 11

Paragraph 4

Nin~ty-ninth meeting 465

Consideration of draft Protocols I and II (concluded)

Draft Protocol I

Amendment to Article 11

Paragraph 4 (concluded)

Article 12 - Protection of medical units

Paragraph 2(12)


Paragraph 5

- 119

II. Fourth sess~on (CDDH/II/SR.83-101) (concluded)

Ninety-ninth meeting (concluded)



Article 20 guater - Remains of deceased

Paragraph 5

Technical Annex (concluded)

Article 4 - Use

to draft Protocol I

Draft Protocol II


Amendment to resolution CDDH/II/391/Rev.l

Draft Protocol II



Paragraph 3


One hundredth meeting ....................... 473

Adoption of the draft report of Committee II

One hundred and first (closing) meeting 485

Adoption of the draft report Committee II (concluded)

of

Conclusion of the Committee's work

- 120

VOLUME XIII

REPORTS OF COMMITTEE II

I. First session (CDDH/49/Rev.l) ............. . 1

II. Second session (CDDH/221/Rev.l incorporating CDDH/221/Revil/Corr.l) .................... . 53

1. Mixed Group report (CDDH/II/266) (CDDHIIII/255) ...................... . 199

2. Report of the Working Group on questions relating to Articles 15, 16 and l8 of draft Protocol II ( CDDH / I I / 2 6 9) ........................ . 217

3. Report of the Drafting Committee on Article 11 of draft Protocol I (CDDH/II/272) ........................ . 221

4. Report of the Drafting Committee on Articles 15 (2), 17 (1) and 18 (3) of draft Protocol I (CDDH/II/286) ....... . 225

5. Report of the Drafting Committee on Articles 12, 12 bis, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 of draft Protocol II (CDDH/II/287) ........................ . 227

6. Report of the Working Group on Articles 21 to 25 of draft Protocol I and of the Drafting Committee ( CDDH / I I /296) ........................ . 231

7. Report of the Drafting Committee on Articles 26 to 29 of draft Protocol I (CDDH/III306) ........................ . 237

8. Report of the Drafting Committee on Article 30 of draft Protocol I (CDDH/ II / 314) ........................ . 241


- 121

III. Third seSSlon (CDDH/235/Rev.l incorporating CDDH/235/Rev.l/Corr.l) ................... . 243

1. Report of the Drafting Committee on Articles 31 and 32 of draft Protocol I (CDDH/II/333) .......•................

2. Report of the Drafting Committee on Articles 25 and 17 of draft Protocol I and on Article 14 of draft Protocol II (CDDH/II/ 334) .......................•

3. Report of the ports

4. Report

of the Drafting Committee and Working Group on medical trans

(CDDH/II/350) ................. .

of the Working Group on Section Ibis (CDDH/II/376) ......... .

5. Report of the Drafting Committee on Article 8 of draft Protocol I (CDDH/II/377) ....................... .

6. Report of the Drafting Committee on Article 8 of draft Protocol I (CDDH/II/379) ....................... .

7. Report of the Drafting Committee on Article 18 bis of draft Protocol I (CDDH/II/ 38~.....•..•...............

8. Report of the Drafting Committee on Article 18 bis of draft Protocol I (CDDH/II/381)....................... .

9. Report of the Drafting Committee on Article 11 of draft Protocol II ( CDDH / I I / 3 8 6) ....................... .

IV. Fourth seSSlon (CDDH/406/Rev.l) .~ ..... ... .

1. Report of Working Group A on Articles 54, 55, 56, 57 and 59 of draft Protocol I - Civil Defence (CDDH/II/439/Rev.l) .....•............

2. Report of Working Group.A on Article 58 of draft Protocol I - Civil Defence (CDDH/II/439/Rev.l/Add.l) ....

323

327

329

331

335

337

341

343

345

349

427

435

~ 122 ,

IV. Fourth seSS20n (CDDH/406/Rev.l)(con~luded)

3. Supplement to the report of Working Group ,A on Civil Defence (CDDH/II/439/Add.l) .................. . 443

4. Report of Working Group B on Articles 33 and 34 of draft Protocol II (CDDH/II/440 and Add.l) .............. . 445

5. Report of Working Group B on Articles 60 to 62 bis of draft Protocol I (CDDH/II/430) ............. . 451

6. Report of the Working Group on Chapter II - Civil Defence ( CDDH / II / 4 41 ) ........................ . 457

7. Second report of the Working Group on Chapter II - Civil Defence ( CDDHIIII4 4 3) ........................ . 459

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VOLUME XIV

SUMMARY RECORDS OF COMMITTEE III

1. First session (CDDH/III/SR.1-12) ........... . 1

First meeting 5


Second meet·ing .............................. 11

Consideration of draft Protocols I and II

Draft Protocol I

Article 43 - Basic rule


Draft Protocol II

Article 24, paragraph 1 - Basic rules

Third m·eeting ............................... 17

Tribute to the memory of Professor Milan Bartos


Draft Protocol I

Article 43 - Basic rule (continued)

Article 44 - Field of application (continued)

Draft Protocol II

Article 24, paragraph 1 - Basic rules (continued)



- 124

I. First SeS6.l0n (CDDH/IIIISR.1-12) (continued)


I

Draft Protocol I

Article 43 - Basic rule (continued)

Article 44 - Field of application (continued)

Draft Protocol II

Article 24, paragraph 1 (continued)

- Basic rules

Fifth meeting ............................... 33

Tribute to the memory Mrs. Pierre Graber

of


I

Draft Protocol I

Article 45 - Definition of and civilian population

civilians

Article 46 - Protection of the civilian'population

Draft Protocol II



Sixth meeting 41


I

Draft Protocol I

Article 45 - Definition of civilians and civilian population (continued)

Article 46 - Protection of the civilian population (continued)

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I. First seSSlon (CDDH/ III/SR .1-12) (continued)

Sixth meeting (concluded)

Draft Protocol II


Article 26 - Protection of the civilian population(~ontitiued)

Seventh m·ee·ting ............................. '+9

Consideration of draft Protocols and II (~ontinued)

Draft Protocol I

I


·Eighth me·eting .............................. 57


Draft Protocol I

I


Draft Protocol II

Article 26 - Protection of the civilian population (resumed from the sixth meeting)

Ninth ·mee·ting ............................... 69

Consideration of draft Protocols and II (contin~ed)

I

Draft Protocol I

Article 46 - Protection of the civilian population (concluded)

Draft Protocol II


- 126

I. First sess~on (CDDH/III/SR .1-12)( concluded)

Tenth meeting 75

Consideration of draft Protocols and II (continued )

I

Draft Protocol I

Article 43 - Basic rule (resurriedfrom the fourth meeting and concluded)

Article 45 - Definition of civilians and civilian population (resurried from the sixth meeting and concluded)

Draft Protocol II

Article 24, paragraph 1 - Basic rules (resumed from the fourth meeting and concluded)

ArtLcle 25 - Definition (resumed the sixth meeting and concluded)

from

Proposals by the Working Group

Elev"en"th meeting ............................ 83

Consideration of draft Protocols and·II(concluded)

I

Draft Pnotocol I

Article 44 - Field of application (resumed from the fourth meeting and concluded)

Proposals by the Working Group (conclud~d)

International day for racial discrimination

the elimination of

Twelfth (closing) meeting................... 87

Adoption of the report of the Committee


- 127

II. Second seSSlon (CDDHIIII/SR .13 -40) 95

Thirteenth (opening) meeting 107


Fourteenth meeting ......................... 109

Condolences Conference

to the President of the


I

Draft Protocol I

Articles 47, 48 and

Draft Protocol II

49

Articles 27 and 28

Draft Protocol I

Article 47 - General civilian objects

protection of

Fifteenth meeting .......... ............ .... 117

Co-ordination Group

Consideration of draft and LI (continued)

Draft Protocol I

Protocols I

Article 47 - General protection of civilian objects (continued)

Sixteenth meeting .......................... 127

Consideration of draft and II (cotitinued)

Draft Protocol I

Protocols I

Article 47 - General protection of civilian objects (continued)

Article 48 - Objects indispensable to the survival of "the civilian popUlation (resumed from the fourteenth meeting)

- 128

II. Second seSSlon (CDDH/IlIiSR .13-40) (continued)

Sixteenth ~~eting (~oncluded)

Draft Protocol II

Article 27 - Protection of objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population (resumed from the fourteenth meeting)

Sevente~nth ~eeting ......................... 141

Consideration of draft Protocols and II (cotitinued)

I

Draft Protocol I

Article 48 - Objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population (continued)

Draft Protocol II

Article 27 - Protection of objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population (continued)

Eighteenth meeting ...........•............•. 151



I

Draft Protocol I

Article 48 - Objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population (continued)

Draft Protocol II

Article 27 - Protection of objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population (continued)

Draft Protocol I

Article 49 - Works and installations containing dangerous forces (resu~ed from the fourteenth meeting)

- 129

II. Second seSS20n (CDDH/III/SR.13-40) (dbntinued)

Eighteenth meeting (concluded)

Draft Protocol II

Article 28 - Protection of works and installations containing dangerous forces (resumed from the fourteenth meeting)

Nineteenth meeting ......... ................. 161


Draft Protocol I

I

Article 49 - Works and installations containing dangerous forces (continued)

Twentieth meeting ........................... 171


Draft Protocol I

I


Draft Protocol II

Article 28 - Protection of works and installations containing dangerous forces (resumed from the eighteenth meeting)

Article 28 bis - Protection 'of the natural environment

Twenty-first meeting .•...................... 181


Draft Protocol I

I

Article 50 - Precautions 2n attack

- 130

II. Second session (CDDHIIIIISR.13-40) (continued)

Twenty-second meeting 197

Consideration of draft Protocols and II <continued)

Draft Protocol II

I


Draft Protocol I

Article 51 - Precautions against effects' of attacks

the




Draft Protocol I

I

Article 52 - Non-defended localities

Article 53 - Neutralized localities

Twenty-fourth meeting ......'................ 217

Composition of Joint Working Group


I

Draft Protocol I

Article 44, paragraph 1 application (concluded)

- Field of


Articl~ 47 - General protection of civilian objects (concluded)

Article 47 bis - Protection of cultural objects and of places worship(concl~ded)

of

Report of the Rapporteur of the Working Group

on the work

- 131

II. Second seSSlon (CDDH/III/SR.13-40) (cdntinued)

Twenty-fourth meeting (concluded)

Draft Protocol II


Twenty-fifth meeting ........................ 229


Draft Protocol II

I

Article 29 - Prohibition of forced movement of civilians (continued)

Twenty-sixth meeting ......... ............... 233


Draft Protocol I

I

Article injury

33 - Prohibition of unnecessary

Twenty-seventh m~eting .... ............... ... 245


Draft Protocol I

I

Article 33 - Prohibition of unnecessary injury (continued)

Article 34 - New weapons


'C'wenty-eighth meeting...................... . 259


Draft Protocol I

I

Article 35 - Prohibition of perfidy ( cont inued )

- 132

II. Second session (CDDHIII.IiSR.13-40) (continued)

Twenty-ninthrrieeting ........................ 271


I

Draft Protocol I

Article 36 - Recognized slgns

Article 37 - Emblems of nationality

Article 38 - Safeguard of an de combat and giving quarter

enemyhors

Thirtieth meeting •.........•............. ,.. 287


I

Draft ,Protocol I

Article 39 - Aircraft occupants

Article 40 - Independent missions

Article 41 - Organization and discipline

Thi~ty-first meeting ........................ 299


I

Draft Protocol I

Article 46, paragraph 3 the civilian population

- Protection of (conclud~d)

Article 48 - Objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population (concluded)

Article 49 - Works and installations containing dangerous forces (con~luded)

Article 50 - Precautions (concluded)

In attack

Article 51 - Precautions against effects of attacks (concluded)

the

- J_ J:)

II. Second session (CDDH/III/SR.13-40) (continuerl)

Thirty-first meeting (concluded)


I

Article 52 - Non-defended (concluded)

localities

Article 53 - Neutralized (concluded)

localities

Explanation; of vote

Thirty-second meeting 302

Other business

Consideration of draft and II (continued)

Protocols I

Draft Protocol II

Article injury

Article

20

21

- Prohibition of unnecessary

- Prohibition of perfidy

Article 22 Quarter

Article 23 - Recognized signs

Thirty-third meeting 317


Message of condolence Mme Paul Graber

on the death of


I

Draft Protocol I

Article of war

42 - New category of prisoners

Article 42 bis - Protection of prisoners of war

Article 42 ter - Persons not entitled to prisoner-of-war status

- 134

II. Second session (CDDH/III/SR .13-40) (continued)

Thirty-fourth meeting 335


I

Draft Protocol I

Article 42 - New category of prisoners of war (continued)

Article 47 bis - Protection of prisoners of war (continued)

Article 42ter - Prisoners not entitled to prisoner-of-war statusCcontinued)

Thirty-fifth meeting ........................ 355


I

Draft Protocol I

Article 42 - New category of prisoners of war (dontinued)


Article 42 ter - Persons not entitled to prisoner-of-war status (continued)

Thirty-~ixth meeting ...........:............ 373


I

Draft Protocol I

Article 42 - New category of prlsoners of war (continued)


Article 42 ~er - Persons not entitled to prisoner-of-war status (continued)

- 135

II. Second sess~on (CDDH/III/SR.13-40) (c6titinued)

Thirty-sevetith meeting •..................... 387


Draft Protocol I

Article 48bis - Protection of the natural environment

Article 48 ter - Protection of nature reserves

Article 33, paragraph 3 - Basic rules

Draft Protocol II


Draft Protocol II

Article 24, paragraph 1 - Basic rules (concluded)

Article 25 - Definition (concluded)

Reaffirmation of approval

Article 24, paragraph 2 - Basic rules (concluded)

Article 26 - Protection of the civilian popUlation (concluded)

Article 26 bis - General protection of civilian objects (concluded)

Article 28 - Protection of works and installations containing dangerous forces (concluded)

Article 28 ter

Article 29 - Prohibition of forced movement of civilians (concluded)

Texts proposed by the Working Group


Draft Protocol I

Article 66 - Objects indispensable to the civilian popUlation

- 136

II. Se20nd seSSlon (CDDH/ III/SR .13-40) (continued)

Thirty-eighth ·meeting ...................... 403

Tribute to the memory of Lieutenant Colonel Kjell Trygve Modahl, member of the Norwegian delegation


Draft Protocol I

Article 33 - Basic rules (coticluded)

Article 34 - New weapons (concluded)

Article 36 - Recognized emblems (concluded)

Article 37 - Emblems of nationality (concluded)

Article 48 bis - Protection of the natural environment (concluded)

Article 48 tel' - (continued)

Texts proposed by the Working Group

Draft Protocol II

Article 28 bis - Protection of the natural. environment (concluded)


Proposal for the establishment at the third session of the Conference of a Joint Group on reprisals


Draft Protocol I

Article 42 - New category of prisoners of war (resumed from the thirty-sixth meeting)

Draft resolutions CDDH/III/285 and Add.l

- 137

II. Second seSSlon (CDDH/ IIIISR.13-40) (concluded)

Thirty-ninth meeting .......•................ 419

Consideration of Committee III

the report of

"Fortieth (closing)rneeting ..........•....... 423

Expressions of appreciation to the Chairman and officers of the Committee

Adoption of the report Committee III

of


III. Second session: Annex to the summary records of the thirty-third to thirty-sixth meetings - Statements concerning draft Protocol I, Article 42 - "New category of prisoners of war" (CDDH/III/SR. 33-36, Annex) ............. 445

Thirty-third rrieeting

Mr. Veuthey International Committee of the Red Cross ........ 449

Mr. Quach Tong Duc Republic of Viet-Nam ...... ... 451

Mr. Hamid Pakistan 453

Mr. Namon Ghana ............ 454

Mr.

Mr.

Zafera

Bierzanek

Madagascar .•.....

Poland ...........

456

457

Mr. Rosas Finland .......... 459

Mr.

Mr.

Agudo

Nguyen Van Huong

Spain ............

Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam ......

461

464

Mr. Schutte Netherlands .•. ... 471

Mr. Reed United States of America "' .... .... 475

- 138

III. Second session: Annex to the summary records of the thirty-third to thirty-sixth meetings - Statements concerning draft Protocol I, Article 42 - "New category of prisoners of war" (CDDH/III/SR.33-36, Annex) (continued)

Thirty-third meeting (concluded)

Miss Ortigoza

Mr. Longva

Thirty-fourth meeting

Mr.

Mr.

Mrs.

Mr.

Mr.

Mr.

Sabel

de Breucker

Mantzoulinos

Genot

Gill

Belousov

Mr. Mokhothu

Mr. Fischer

Mr. Quach Tong Duc

Mr. Starling

Thirty-fifth meeting

Mr.

Mr.

Mr.

M!1,.

Mr.

Denereaz

Fissenko

Ronzitti

Josephi

Agudo

Argentina

Norway ......... .

Israel ....... ~ ..

Belgium ........ .

Greece .......... .

Belgium

Ireland

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ....... .

Lesotho ........ .

German Democratic Republic ....... .

Republic 0:( Viet-Nam ....... .

Brazil ......... .

Switzerland .....

Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic ....... .

Italy .......... .

Fecieral Republic of Germany ..... .

Spain .......... .

479

480

483

484

487

490

494

496

499

501

502

506

508

511

513

515

516

- .139

III. Second session: Annex to the summary records of the thirty-third to thirty-sixth meetings - Statements concerning draft Protocol I, Article 42 - "New category of prisoners of war" (CDDH/III/SR. 33-36, Annex) (concl~ded)

Thirty-fifth meeting (concluded)

Mr. Nguyen Van Huong

Mr. Rosas

Mr. Abada

Mr. Mahony

Mr. Iijima

Mr. Jang

Mr. Dixit

Mr. Ajayi

Mr. Navega

Mr. Samad

Mr. Sabel

Thirty-sixth meeting

Mr.

Mr.

Mr.

Mr.

Mr.

Mr.

Mr.

Girard

Kussbach

Zafera

Longva

Bidi

Nyathi

Masangomai

Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam ........ Finland · ........ Algeria · ........ Australia ....... Japan

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

India . .......... Nigeria · ........ Portugal . ....... Afghanistan . .... Israel • •••••••• Ii

France · ......... Austria ·........ Madagascar ...... Norway · ......... Pan-Africanist Congress ........ Zimbabwe African People's Union .. Zimbabwe African National Union ..

517

518

521

524

526

528

529

531

533

534

535

537

539

542

544

549

551

554

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VOLUME XV

Part One

SUMMARY RECORDS OF COMMITTEE III

1. Third session (CDDH/III/SR.41-53) .......... .

Forty-first (opening) meeting


Forty-second meeting


Articles 63, 64 and 64 bis


Article 64 - Refugees and stateless persons

New Article 64 bis - Reunion of dispersed families

Forty-third meeting .........................



Forty-fourth meeting



Article 65 - Fundamental guarantees (continued)


1

7

9

25

45


- 141

1. Third seSSlon (CDDH/III/SR.4l-53) (continued)

Forty-fifth meeting 63

Tribute to the memory of Mr. Lopez-Herrarte, Permanent Representative of Guatemala to the International Organizations at Geneva and Head of the delegation of Guatemala


I


Article 69 - Evacuation of children

Forty-sixth meeting ......................... 77


Article 32 - Privileged treatment

Forty-seventh meeting 85

Consideration of draft Protocol I (resumed from the forty-fifth meeting)

Proposals by Articles 35, and 42 bis

the 38,

Rapporteur concerning 38bis, 39, 40, 41

Article 35 - Prohibition of perfidy (concluded)

Article 38 - Quarter (concluded)

New Article 38 bis - Safeguard of enemy hoI's de combat (concluded)

an

Article 39 - Aircraft occupants (concluded)

Article 40 - Independent missions (concluded)

Article 41 - Organization and discipline (concluded)

New Article 42 bis - Protection of person~ taking part in hostilities (concluded)


- 142

I. Third seSSlon (CDDH/III/SR.41-53) (continued)

Forty-eighth meeting ........................ 101


I

Proposals by the Rapporteur concerning Articles 35, 38, 38 bis, 39, 40, 41 and 42bis(concluded)

Explanations of vote (~oncluded)

Forty-ninth meeting ......................... 107

Consideration of draft and II

Protocols I

Draft Protocol II (resumed from forty-sixth meeting)

the

Report ,of the Working Group on Art i c 1 e s 20, 20 b is, 21, 22, 22 23, 27

b is,

Article 20 - Prohibition of unnecessary injury (concluded)

New Article 20 bis - Protection of cultural objects-and of places of worship (concluded)


Article 22 - Quarter (concluded)

New Article 22 bis - Safeguard of enemy hors de combat (concluded)

an

Article 23 - Recognition signs (concluded)

Article 27 - Protection of objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population (concluded)

Draft Protocol I (continued)

New Article 64 bis dispersed families

- Reunion of (concluded)

- 143

1. Third session (CDDHIIIIISR.41-53) (concluded)

Fiftieth meeting ............................ 115


Article 42 - New category of prisoners of war

Fifty-first meeting ......................... 121


Article 42 - New category of prisoners of war (continued)

Fifty-second meeting 125

Adoption of the report of Committee III

Fifty-third (closing) meeting ......... ... ... 135

Adoption of addenda Committee III

to the report of

Article 42 - New category of prisoners of war

New Article 42 quatAr - Mercenaries


II. Fourth seSSlon (CDDH/III/SR.54-60) ..... ..... 145

Fifty-fourth (opetiing) meeting 151


Fifty-fifth meeting ......................... 155

Consideration of and II

draft Protocols I

Draft Protocol I

Article 42 - New category of of war


prisoners

- 144

II. Fourth session (CDDHIIII/SR. 54-60) (continued)

Fifty-sixth meeting ......................... 169

Consideration of draft Protocols and II (~otitinued)

I

Draft Protocol I

Article 42 - New category of prisoners of war (concluded)


Fifty-seventh meeting ....................... 189

Announcement by the Chairman


I

Draft Protocol I

Report of the Working Group on article on mer~enaries and on Articles 63, 64, 65 and 66

the new

New article on mercenaries

Article

Article persons

63

64

- Field of application

- Refugees and stateless


Article 66 - Objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population


Fifty~eighth meeting 203


I

Draft Protocol I

Explanations of vote 65 and 66 and on the mercenaries

on Articles new article

63, 64, on


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Pagr,_

II. Fourth seSSlon (CDDH/III/SR.54-60) (continued)

Fifty-ninth meeting ......................... 209

Consideration of draft Protocols I and II (concluded)

Proposals submitted by the Working Group for further study

Draft Protocol I

Article 37, paragraph 3 - Emblems of nationality

Article 39, paragraph 1 - Occupants of aircraft

Article 46, paragraph 5 - Protection of the civilian population

Draft Protocol II

Ay,ticle 26 - Protection of the civilian population

Draft Protocol I

Article 47 bis - Protection of places of worship and of cultural objects

Draft Protocol II

Article 20 bis - Protection of places of worship and of cultural objects

Draft Protocol I

Article 49 - Works and installations containing dangerous forces and articles to be inserted In an annex to Protocol I

Draft Protocol II

Article 28 - Protection of works and installations containing dangerous forces and articles to be inserted in an annex to Protocol II

Draft Protocol I



Article 69 - Evacuation of children

- 146

II. Fourth session (CDDHIIII/SR.S4-60) (concluded)

Fifty-ninth meeting (concluded)

Draft Protocol II



Article 26 bis - General protection of civilian objects

Article 28 - Protection of works and installations containing dangerous forces (concluded)


Article 32 - Privileged ,


treatment

Sixtieth (closing) meeting 221

Adoption of the draft report of Committee III

Concl·usion of the Committee's work

Part Two

REPORTS OF COMMITTEE III

I. First session (CDDH/SO/Rev.l) .............. . 229

1. Report of the Working Group to Committee IlIon Article 44, paragraph 1, of Protocol I (CDDH/III/78/Add.l incorporating CDDH/III/78/Add.l/Corr.l)

- 147

II. Second seSSlon (CDDH/2l5/Rev.l)

1. Report to Committee IlIon the work of the Working Group (CDDH/III/224) .....

2. Mixed Group Report (CDDH/III/255) (CDDH/II/266) ....................... .

3. Report to Committee IlIon the work of the Working Group on Articles 46 and 48 to 53 of Protocol I, submitted by the Rapporteur (CDDH/III/264/Rev.l) ..

4. Report to Committee IlIon the work of the Working Group on Articles 48 bis, 48 ter and 33 of Protocol I and 24, 26, 26 bis, 28, 28 bis, 28 ter and 29 of Protocol II, submitted by the Rapporteur (CDDH/III/275 incorporating CDDH/III/275/Corr.l) ................ .

5. Report to Committee IlIon the work of the Working Group on Articles 33, 34, 36 and 37 of Protocol I, submitted by the Rapporteur (CDDH/III/293) ....... .

III. Third seSSlon (CDDH/236/Rev.l) ........... .

1. Report to Committee IlIon the work of the Working Group submitted by the Rapporteur (CDDH/III/338) ........... .

2. Report to Committee IlIon the work of the Working Group submitted by the Rapporteur (CDDH/III/353) ........... .

IV. Fourth seSSlon (CDDH/407/Rev.l)

1. Report to Committee IlIon the work of the Working Group submitted by the Rapporteur (CDDH/III/369 incorporating CDDH/III/369/Corr.l) ................ .

2. Report to Committee IlIon the work of the Working Group submitted by the Rapporteur (CDDH/IIIi39U ........... .

259

327

335

347

357

369

373

425

435

445

509

517

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VOLUME XVI

Part One

SUMMARY RECORDS OF THE AD HOC COMMITTEE ON CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS

I. First session (CDDHIIV/SR.l-n ............. .

Organizational meeting ......................

Examination and adoption of the agenda ,

First meeting ...............................

General debate (item 1 of the Committee's agenda)

Second meeting ..............................

Tribuie to the memory of Mrs. Pierre Graber, wife of the President of the Conference

General debate (item 1 of the Committee's agenda) (continued)

Third meeting ...............................

General debate (item 1 of the Committee's agenda) (concluded)

Consideration of the plan proposed by the ICRC for the Conference of Government Experts on Weapons to be held in 1974 (item 2 of the Committee's agenda)

1

5

7

17

25


- 149

I. First seSSlon (CDDH/IV/SR.1-7) (~ontinued)

Fourth me:e·t·ing .............................. 35

Consideration of the plan proposed by the ICRC for the Conference of Government Experts on Weapons to be held 1974 (item 2 of the Committee's agenda) (continued)

in

Examination of the questions of prohibition or restriction of the use of specific categories of conventional weapons which may be deemed to cause unnecessary suffering or have indiscriminate effects (item 3 of the Committee's agenda)

Fifth meeting ............................... 41

Consideration of the ICRC for the

the plan proposed by Conference of Govern

ment Experts on Weapons to be held 1974 (item 2 of the Committee's agenda) (continued)

ln

Examination of the questions of prohibition or restriction of the use of specific categories of conventional weapon$ which may be deemed to cause unnecessary suffering or have indiscriminate effects (item 3 of the Committee's agenda) (~ontinued)

Six·th meeting ............................... 47

Consideration of the ICRC for the

the plan proposed by Conference of Govern

ment Experts on Weapons to be held 1974 (item 2 of the Committee's agenda) (~ontinued)

ln

Examination of the questions of prohibition or restriction of the use of specific categories of conventional weapons which may be deemed to cause unnecessary suffering or have indiscriminate effects (item 3 of the Committee's agenda) (concluded)

- 150

I. First seSSlon (CDDH/IV/SR.1-7) (concluded)

Seventh ( closing) meeting •................. 51

Adoption of the report Committee's agenda)

(item 5 of the

Consideration of the plan proposed by the ICRC for the Conference of Government Experts on Weapons to be held In 1974 (item 2 of the Committee's agenda)(coti~luded)

II. Second session (CDDH/IV/SR.8-21) .......... . 61

Eighth (opening) meeting ................... 67

Telegram of condolence to Mr. Pjerre Graber, President of Conference

the

Programme of work of the Committee

Departure of Mr. Mustapha Chelbi (Tunisia), Vice-Chairman

Introduction of the report of the Conference of Government Experts on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons,

Introduction of proposals

Ninth meeting .............................. 81


Introduction of proposals (~oncluded)

Consideration of the question of prohibition or restriction of use of specific categories of conventional weapons which may cause unnecessary suffering or have indiscriminate effects and, in this context, consideration of the report of the Lucerne Conference and of proposals

(a) Na~alm and weapons

other incendiary

- 151

II. Second seSSlon (CDDH/IV/SR.8-21) (continued)

Tenth meeting ............................... 91


Consideration of the question of prohibition or restriction of use of specific categories of conventional weapons which may cause unnecessary suffering or have indiscriminate effects and, in this context, consideration of the report of the Lucerne Conference and of proposals (continued)

(a) Napalm and other incendiary weapons (continued)

Eleventh meeting ............................ 105


(a) Napalm and other incendiary weapons (concluded)

(b) Small calibre projectiles

'Twelfth meeting 115


(b) Small calibre projectiles (continued)

(c) Blast and fragmentation weapons

- 152

II. Second seSSlon (CDDHIIV/SR.8-21) (continued)

Thirteenth meeting 123


(b) Small calibre projectiles (concluded)

(c) Blast and fragmentation weapons (concluded)

(d) DeJayed-action and weapons

treacherous

Fou~teenth meeting 131


(d) Delayed-action and treacherous weapons (~oncluded)

- 153

II. Second seSSlon (CDDH/IV/SR.8-21) (continued)

Fifteenth meeting ........................... 139


(e) Potential weapon development

Sixteenth meeting ........................... 153

Consideration of the question of prohibition or restriction of use of specific categories of conventional weapons which may cause unnecessary suffering or have indiscriminate effects and, in this context, consideration of the report of the Lucerne Conference and of proposals (concluded)

ee) Potential weapon (concluded)

development

Seventeenth meeting ......................... 163

Consideration of future work, including the question of a second Conference of Government Experts and of its work programme



Consideration of future work, including the question of a second Conference of Government Experts and of its work programme (continued)

- 154

II. Second seSSlon (CDDH/IV/SR.8-21) (~6ncluded)


Consideration of future work, including the question of a second Conference of Government Experts and of its work programme (continued)

Twentieth meeting .......................... 201

Consideration of future work, including the que~tion of a second Conference of Government Experts and of its work programme (concluded)

Twenty-firstCclosing) meeting 207

Tribute to the memory of H.M. King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Mr. Timothy Horan, Permanent representative of Ireland to the United Nations Office and the specialized agencies at Geneva, and Lieut. Colonel Kjell Modahl, member of the Norwegian delegation

Adoption of the report of Committee

the Ad Hoc

Place, date and rules of procedure of the second session of the Conference of Government Experts on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons


III. Third seSSlon (CDDH/IV/SR.22-35) ........... 219

Twenty-second (opening) meeting 225


Twenty-third meeting .............•......... 231


- 155

III. Third session (CDDHIIV/SR.22-35) (continued)

Twenty-fourth meeting ...................... 237

Oral report by the Rapporteur on the work of the Conference of Government Experts on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons (second session, Lugano, 28 January 1976 to 26 February 1976)

Introduction of proposals

Twenty-fifth meeting 253

Introduction of proposals (concluded)

Consideration of the question of the prohibition or the restriction of the use of specific categories of conventional weapons and, in this context, consideration of the report of the Lugano Conference, and of proposals

(a) Napalm and weapons

other incendiary


Twenty-sixth meeting 261

Consideration of the question of the prohibition or the restriction of the use of specific categories of conventional weapons and, in this context, consideration of the report of the Lugano Conference, and of proposals (continued)


- 156

III. Third session (CDDH/IV/SR.22-35) (continued)

Twenty-seventh meeting ................ ..... 273

Consideration of the question of the prohibition or the restriction of the use of specific categories of conventional weapons and, in this context, consideration of the report of the Lugano Conference, and of proposals (continued )






(b) Delayed-action weapons and treacherous weapons (including mines and booby-traps)

Twenty-ninth meeting ..... ,................ 293

Consideration of the question of the prohibition or the ~est~iction of the use of specific categories of conventional weapons and, in this context, consideration of the report of the Lugano Conference, and of proposals ( c·ontinued)

(b) Delayed-action weapons and treacherous weapons (including mines and booby-traps) (conti"nued)

-157

III. Third session (CDDH/rV/SR.12-35) (continued)

Thirtieth meeting ......................... 305


(b) Delayed-action weapons and treacherous weapons (including mines and booby-traps) (concluded)

(c) Small-calibre projectiles

Thirty-first m~eting 319


Consideration of the question of the prohibition or the restriction of the use of specific categories of conventional weapons and, in this context, consideration of the report ·of the Lugano Conference, and of proposals (continued)

(c) Small-calibre projectiles (continued)

(d) Blast and fragmentation weapons

Resignation of the Rapporteur

Thirty-se~ond meeting 331

Consideration of the question of the prohibition or the restriction of the use of specific categories of conventional weapons and, in this context, consideration of the report of the Lugano Conference, and of proposals (~ontinu~d)

(c) Small-calibre projectiles (concluded)

- 158

III. Third seSSlon (CDDH/IV/SR.22-35) (concluded)

Thirty-second meeting (concluded)

(d) Blast and fragmentation weapons (concluded)

(a) Napalm and other incendiary weapons (concluded)


Other questions

Weapons ~hat may cause unnecessary suffering or have. indiscriminate effects

Thirty-thi~d meeting ........•............... 339

Consideration of the question of the prohibition or the restriction of the use o~ specific categories of conventional weapons and in this context, consideration of the report of the Lugano Conference, and of proposals (~oncluded)

(e) Potential weapons developments

Other questions (~onclud~d)

Statement by Denmark'

the representative of

Statement by the representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross

Statement by Finland

the representative of

Thirty-fourth meeting ..............•.. •..•• 351

Statements on progress of work

Thirty-fifth (clos'ing) meeting 359

Adoption of the draft report of the Ad Hoc Committee

Closure' of the session

- 159

IV. Fourth session (CDDH/IV/SR.36-42) ......... . 371

Thirty-sixth (opening)nieeting 375

Opening statement by the Chairman and adoption of the programme of work

Election of a new Rapporteur

Establishment of a Working Group

Election of the Working Group

Chairman of the

Thirty-seventh meeting 385

Consideration of the question of the prohibition or the restriction of the use of specific categories of conventional weapons and of proposals

Introduction of new proposals

Thirty-eighth me~ting 391

Consideration of the question of the prohibition or the restriction of the use of specific categories of conventional weapons and of proposals (continued)

Introduction of new proposals (continued)

Other business

Proposal to insert a in draft Protocol I

new Article 86 bis

Thirty-ninth meeting ....................... 399

Consideration of the question of the prohibition or the restriction of the use of specific categories of conventional weapons and of proposals (concluded)

Introduction of new proposals (concluded)

- 160

IV. Fourth seSSlon (CDDH/IV/SR.36-42) (concluded)

Fortieth meeting 403

Approval of the report of the Working Group

Consideration of the question of follow-up and other questions

Forty-first meeting ........................ 423

Consideration of the question of follow-up (concluded)

Forty-second (closing) meeting 433

Adoption of the report of the Ad Committee


Hoc

Part Two.

REPORTS OF THE AD HOC COMMITTEE CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS

ON

I. First seSSlon (CDDH/47/Rev.l) 451

Election of officers

Work programme of the Committee

General debate

Use of specific conventional weapons

Conference of Government Experts

Other questions

Adoption of the report

- 161

II. Second session CCDDH/220/Rev.l) 465

Officers of the Ad Hoc .Committee 469

Programme Committee

of work of th~ Ad Hoc ............................. 469

Introduction of the report of the Conference of Government Experts on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons ............................... 470

Introduction of proposals .......... ... 471

Consideration of the question of prohibition or restriction of use of specific categories of conventional weapons which may cause unnecessary suffering or have indiscriminate effects and, in this context, consideration of the report of the Lucerne Conference and of proposals

Ca) General.......................... 472

Cb) Incendiary weapons ............... 474

Cc) Small-calibre projectiles ... ..... 476

Cd) Blast and fragmentation weapons 477

Ce) Delayed-action and treacherous . weapons .......................... 478

Cf) Potential weapon developments .... 479

Consideration of future work including the question of a second Conference of Government Experts, and of the programme of work which it might follow ................................ 480

Adoption of the report of the Ad Hoc Committee ............................. 482

-·162

III. Third session (CDDH/237/Rev.l, incorporating CDDH/237/Rev.I/Corr.l) ....•....• .•.......... 483

Officers of the Ad Hoc Committee 487

Programme Committee

of work of the Ad Hoc ................. "............ 487

Oral report by the Rapporteur on the work of the Conference of Government Experts on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons (Second session, Lugano, 28 January to 26 February 1976) ................................. 488

Introduction of proposals ..... ........ 489

(a) Napalm and other incendiary weapons .......................... 489

(b) Delayed-action weapons and treacherous weapons (including mines and booby-traps) ... ........ 491

(c) Small-calibre projectiles ........ 492

(d) Blast and fragmentation weapons.. 493

Consideration of the question of the prohibition or the restriction of the use of specific categories of conventional weapons and, in this context, consideration of the report of the Lugano Conference and of proposals

(a) General remarks .................. 495

(b) Napalm and other incendiary weapons .......................... 496

(c) Delayed-action weapons and treacherous weapons (including mines and booby-traps) ..........• 498

(d) Small-calibre projectiles •....... 498

(e) Blast and fragmentation weapons.. 500

(f) Potential weapons developments ... 501

Other questions 502

Adoption of the report of the Ad Hoc Commi ttee ...................•.•....... 503

- 163 ...

IV. Fourth sessi6n (CDDH/408/Rev.l) including: 505

Report of the Working Group (CDDHIIV/224/Rev.l) ................... 551

Composition of the Bureau. .... ... ..... 509

Programme of work of the Ad Hoc Commi ttee ............................. 509

Establishment of a Working Group ...... 510

Fragments non-detectable by X-ray..... 511

Mines and booby-traps ... ...... ... ..... 511

Incendiary weapons .................... 513

Other categories of conventional weapons:

(a) Fuel-air explosives .............. 515

(b) Small-calibre projectiles. ....... 517

Follow-up ............................. 519

General remarks ....... ........... ..... 522

Annex

Report of the Working Group .. ......... 525

Appendices

I. ~roposal by Austria, Colombia, Denmark, Mexico, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Yugoslavia ....................... 539

II. Working Group documents CDDH/IV/GT/l to CDDH/IV/GT/7 ..... 541

- 164

Part .Three

COMPARATIVE TABLE OF PROPOSALS AND LIST OF INFORMATION DOCUMENTS

Comparative table of proposals and list of information documents (CDDH/IV/226) ............... 551

Explanatory Note ...... ........... ...... 554

(a) Napalrriand other incendiary weapons 555

CDDH/ IV 1201 (1) 556

CDDH/IV/Inf.220 .. ............ ..... 560

CDDHiIV/206 ....................... 562

CDDHiIV/206/Rev.l ................. 564

CDDH/IV/GT/7 ...................... 566

CDDHiIV 1207 567

CDDHiIV 1208 570

CDDHiIV/GT/3 ...................... 573

CDDH/IV/217 574

CDDH/IV/223 578

(b) Delayed action weap6ns and treacherous weapons (including mines and booby-traps) ............ 580

CDDHiIV/201 (V) ................... 581

CDDHiIV 1209 583

CDDH/IV/211 585

CDDHiIV 1212 587

CDDH/IV/213 588

CDDHiIV/222....................... 593

CDDHiIV/GT/1...................... 595

CDDH/IV/GT/2/Rev.1 . .... .•.. ....... 59E

CDDH/IV/GT/4 ...................... 596

- 165

Comparative table of proposals and list of information docu~ents CCDDH/IV/226)C~on~luded)

Cc) Small-calibre projectiles......... 601

CDDH/ IV /201 (IV) .................. 602

CDDH/IV/214 607

CDDH/IV/GT/6 ...................... 611

Cd) Blast and fragmentation weapons ... 613

CDDH/IV/201 (III) ................. 614

CDDH/IV /201 (II) .................. 61S

CDDH/ IV / 210 618

CDDH/IV/21S 619

CDDH/IV/GT/S ...................... 622

Explanatory memorandum concerning CDDH/IV/201 ....................... 623

Documents submitted to the Ad Hoc Committee for information ... ,. .... 627

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II. INDEX TO THE TABLE OF AMENDMENTS

Protocol I (contained in Vol urn e I I I) ............... 1 6 9

Protocol II (contained in Volume IV) ............... 185

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PRO T 0 COL I

(contained in volume III)

Accession (Article 82) 350 Article 94 of the final Act

Activities of the Red Cross and other lnlInCtnitarian 308-312 organizations (Article 70 bis (a»

Article 81 of the finaI-Act-Aggression and non-discriminatory application of 153

humanitarian law (new article before ArticJe 33) Withdrawn

Agreements and notifications (Article 30) 141-143 Title in Tinal Act: Notifications and agreements concerning medical aircraft (Article 29)

Aircraft occupants (Article 39) 172-173 TitJe in final Act: Occupants of aiY'craft (Ari~icle 42)

Amendment (Article 86) 359 Article ~] 7 of the Final Act

Application (Article 23) 118-121 Replaced by article on Hospital ships and coastal rescue craft (Article 23)

Appointment of Protecting Powers and of their 23-34 substitute (Article 5)

Armed forces (Article 43) I'; 6 --177 Original title: Organization and discipline _ (Article 41)

Authentic texts (Article 102) 364-365 Original title: Authentic texts and official translations (Article 90)

Authentic texts and official translations (Article 90) 364-365 Title in Final Act: Authentic texts (Article 102)

Basic needs in occupied territories (Article 69) 281 Original title: Supplies (Article 61)

Basic rule (Article 43) 193-195 Article 48 of the Final Act

Basic rule and field of application (Part IV, 193-197 Section I, Chapter I)

Basic rules (Article 35) 154-158 Original title: Prohibition of unnecessary injury (Article 33)

Beginning and end of application (Article 3) 15-18 Bilateral radio signal (ICRC draft - Annex, Article 10) 376

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Cases not covered by the Conventions or by the 356 present Protocol (Article 84 bis (b»

WithdraHn Cessution of protection (Article 58) 265-269

Article 65 of the final Act Civil defence (ICRC draft - Annex, Chapter IV) 378-379,

Annex I, Chapter V of the final Act 397- 1+02 Civil defcnce (Part IV, Chapter VI) 243-279 Civil defence bodies of States not parties to a 259-7iii conflict and international bodies (Article 57)

Title in final Act: Civilian defence orf,anizations of neutral or other States not Parties to the conflict and international co-ordinating orf,anizations (Article 64)

Civil defence in"occupied territories (Article 63) 25 1+-258 Original title: Occupied territories (Article 56)

Civilian defence organizations of neutral or other 259-262 Stu"tes not Parties to the conflict and international co-ordinating orgunizations (Article 64)

Original title: Civil defence bodies of States not parties'to a conflict and international bodies (Article 57)

Civilian medical and religious personnel (Article 15) 72-75 Title in final Act: Protection of civiliun medical and religious personnel (Article 15)

Civili~n objects (Part IV, Chapter III) 207-226 Civilian population (Part IV) 193-303 Civilians and civilian' population (Part IV, Chapter II) 198-206 Combatant and priaoner-of-war status (Part III, 178-192 Section II)

Original title: Prisoner-of-war status (Part III, Section II)

Combatants and prisoners of war (Article 44) 178-186 Original title: New category of prisoners of war (Article 42)

Committee on the prohibition or restriction of the use 360 of certain conventional weapons (Article 86 bis)

Rejected in plenary Communications (Annex I, Chapter IV) 375-375,

392-396 Comparative table (Annex I to Protocol I) 370-379 Contact zone (Article 27) 133-135

Title in Final Act: Medical aircraft In contact or similar zones (Article 25)

Co-operation (Article 89) 304-305 Original titl~: Grave violations (new article before Article 70)

Cultural objects (Article 47 bis) 213-215 Title in final Act: Protection of cul tU1~al objects and of places of worship (Article 53)

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Definition (Article 54) Title in Final Act: Definitions and scope (Article 51)

Definition of attacks and scope of application (Article y9)

Original title: Field of application (Article 44) Definition of civilians and civilian popuJation

(Article lf5) Article 50 of the Final Act

Definition of civilian objects (proposed new article before Articl~ 47)

Definitions (Article 2) Definitions (A~ticle 8)

Title in Fiual Act: Terminology (Article 8) Definitions (Article 21)

Incorporated with Ter~inology (Article 8) Definitions and scope (Ariicle 61)

Original title: Definition (Article 54) Demilitarized zones (Article 60)

Original title: Neutralized localities (Article 53)

Denunciation (Article 87) Article 99 of the Final Act

Discontinuance of protection of civilian medical units (Article 13)

Dissemination (Article 72) Article 83 of the Final Act

Distinctive emblem CICRC draft - Annex, Chapter II) Title in Final Act: The distinctive emblem (Annex I, Chapter II)

Distinctive signals (Annex I, Chapter III)

Documents (ICRC draft - Annex, Chapter I) Title in Final Act: Identity cards (Annex I, Chapter I)

Documents (ICRC draft - Annex, Article 14) Title in Final Act: Identity card (Annex I, Article 14)

Duty of commanders (Article 76 bis) Article 87 of the Final Ac~

Electronic identification (Annex I, Article 8) Original title: Secondary surveillance radar system signal (ICRC draft - Annex, Article 11)

Emblems of nationality (Article 37) Article 39 of the Final Act

Entry into force (Article 83) Article 95 of the Final Act

21-14-249

195-197

198-199

207

10-13 45-53

113-114

244-249

240-242

361

66-68

315

372, 383-384

374, 385-391 370-371, 380-382

370-371, 378,

397-399 329-330

375-376, 390-391

167-168

351

- 178

Enquiry procedure concerning an alleged violation of the Conventions (Article 7 bis)

Withdravm Evacuation of children (Article 59)

Article 78 of the Final Act Execution of the Conventions and of the present Protocols (Part V)

Title in Final Act: Execution of the Conventions and of this Protocol (Part V)

Execution of the Conventions and of this Protocol (Part V)

Original title: Execution of the Conventions and of the pr~sent Protocol (Part V)

Extradition (Article 78) Reje~ted by'CoIT@ittee

Failure to act (Article 76) Article 86 of the Final Act

Field of application (Article 9) Field of applic~tion (Article 44)

Title in Final Act: Definition of attacks and scope of application (Article 49)

Field of application (Article 60) Article 68 of the Final Act

Field of application (Article 63) Article 72 of the Final Act

Field of application and protection of persons and obj ects (Par't IV, Section

Final provisions (~art VI) Flight plan (ICRC draft

Title in Final Act: Article 12)

Flight plans (Annex I, Original title: Annex, Article 4)

Fundamental guarantees Article 75 of the

III, Chapter I)

Annex, Article 4) Flight plans (Annex I,

Article 12) Flight plan (ICRC draft

(Article 65) Final Act

General principle (Part II, Section III, Article 32) Original title: Purpose (Part II, Section I bis, Article 20 bis)

General principlesand scope Original title: Scope (Article 1)

General protection (Part II,

of application (Article 1) of the present Protocol

Section I) General protection (new Article 57 bis) General protection (Article 62)

Original title: Zones of military operations (Article 55)

42

302

30 l l-345

304-346

333-335

3/8

54-56 196-197

280

286

286-297

348-365 372,

376-377, 395 372,

376-377, 395

289-295

98

5-9

45-97 263-264 2S0-~53

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Genera]_ protection against effects of hostilities (Part IV, Section I)

General protection of civilian objects (Article 47) Article 52 of the Final Act

General protection of medical duties (ArticJe 16) General pr<ov_isions (Part I) Generoal pl"ovision:::: (Parot V, Sectiun I) Groave violations (Article before Article 70)

Title in final Act: Co-operation (Article 89)

Hospital ships and coastal rescue craft (Article 23) Replaced J\ppl icat ion (Artie Ie 23) Ar-{]:ETe- 2 2 of the final Act

Identification (Article -18) Identification (Article 59)

ArLlcle 66 of tl1C Fin,J.l f\c-t Identity card (Annex I, Article 14)

Origi_llal title: DOCUl.,e:lts (ICRe draft -Annex, Article 1)

Identity card for journalists on dangerous professional missions (Annex II to Protocol I)

Originally incJ.uded in Protection of journalists engaged in dangerous missions (Article 69 bis)

Identity card for permanent civilian medical and-religious personnel (Annex I, Article 1)

Original title: Permanent civilian medical personnel (ICRC draft - Annex, Article 1)

Identity card fa'r temporary civilian medical and religious personnel (Annex I, Article 2)

Original title: Temporary civilian medical personnel (ICRC draft - Annex, Article 2)

Identity cards (Annex, Article 14) Original title: Documents (ICRC draft- Annex, Chapter I)

Identity cards (Annex I, Article 14) Original title: Documents (ICRC draft - Annex, Article 14) Title in Final Act: Identity card (Annex I, Article 14)

Independent missions (Article 40) Title in Final Act: Spies (Article 46)

Information on the victims of a conflict and remalns of deceased (Part II, Section I bis)

Title in Final Act: Missing and dead perosons (Parot II, Section III)

193-280

208-217

76-81 [) - Lf 3

30L:-316 30 1+-305

118-121

87-89 271-275

37S-37S, 3~L'-399

303

370-371, 380

370-371, 381-382

370-371, 380-382

379, 397-399

174-175

98-109

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International distinctive sign (Annex I, Article 15) Original title: International distinctive sign for civil defence services (ICRC draft - Annex, Article 15)

International distinctive sign for civil defence services (ICRC draft - Annex, Article 15)

Title in Final Act: International distinctive sign (Annex I, Article IS)

International distinctive sign of civil defence (Annex, Article IS)

Original title: International distinctive sign for civil defence services (IeRC draft - Annex, Article 15) Title in Final Act: International distinctive sign (Annex'I, Article IS)

International enquiry commission (Article 79 bis) Title in Final Act: 'Interna-tional fact-fI"Dding commission (Article 90)

International fact-finding commission (Article 90) Original tit~e: International enquiry commission (Article 79 bis)

International special sign (Annex I, Article 16) Original title: International special sign for works and installations containing dangerous forces (Annex, Article 16)

International special sign for works and installations containing dangerous forces (Annex, Article 16)

Title in Final Act: International special sign (Annex I, Ar~icle 16)

Interpretation and application (Article 4 bis) Withdrawn

Joint provisions (Part II, Section II, Chapter I) Chapter heading deleted

Journalists (Part IV, Section III, Chapter III)

Landing (Article 31) Title in Final Act: Landing and inspection of medical aircraft (Article 30)

Landing and inspection of medical aircraft (Article 30) Original title: Landing (Article 31)

Legal advisers in armed forces (Article 71) Article 82 of the Final Act

Legal status of the Parties to the conflict (Article 4) Light signal (Ann~x I, Article 6)

Original title: Light signals (lCRC draft Annex, Article 8)

3'18-379, 400

378-379, 400

378-379 400

338-3!-+5

338-3 Lf5

379, 401-402

379, 401-402

22

113-127

303

144-147

144-147

314

19-21 373-374,

387

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Light signals (ICRC draft - Annex, Article 8) Title in Final Act: Li~ht signill (Annex I, Article G)

Limitations on requisition of civilian medical units (Ari~icle 14)

Original title: Requisition (Article lU) Lists of personnel (ICRC draft - Annex, Article 3)

Deleted Localities and zones under Rpecial prot~ction

(Part IV, Chapter V) Original title: LocaJ itir::s un(~("2 spcciaJ protection (Part IV, Chopter V)

Localities under special protection (Part IV, Chapter V)

Title in Final Act: LocdlitieL and zones under special protec-tioYl (Par-t I V, Chapter V)

Measures for execution (Article 70) Article 80 of the Final Act

11easures in favour of I:JO];:e:1 and chilGJ'cn (Part IV, Section III, Chapter II)

11easures of pr'otection for journalists (I'a)"t I\', Section III, Chapter III, Article 79)

Original title: Protection of journalists engaged in dangerous missions (Acticle 6S bis)

Medic0-1 aircraft in areas contl"olled by an ac.'Jerse, Party (Article 27)

OriginaJ title: Sectors controlled by enemy forces (Article 28)

Medical aircraft in areas not controlled by an adverse Party (Article 25 bis)

Replaced Sectors controlled by national or allied forces (Article 25) Article 25 of the Final Act

Medical aircraft in contact or similar zones (Article 25) Original title: Contact zones (Article 27)

Medical air transport (Part II, Section II, Chapter II) Deleted

Medical transports (Part II, Section II) Title in Final Act: Medical transportation (Part II, Section II)

Medical transportation (Part II, Section II) Medical units (Article 12)

Title in Final Act: Protection of medical units (Article 12)

Medical vehiclei (Article 22) Replacpd Search for wounded (Article 22) Article 21 of the Final Act

Meetings (Article 7)

373-374, 387

69-71

372

235-242

235-242

307

298-303

303

136-13 7

129-130

133-135

128-152

110-152

110-152 53-65

115-117

39-41

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Members of the armed forces and military units assigned to civil defence organizations (new Article S9 bis)

Article 67 of the Final Act Mercenaries (Article 42 ~ter)

Article 47 of the Final Act Methods and means of combat (Part III, Section I)

Title in Final Act: Methods and means of warfare (Part III, Section I)

Methods and means of combat - prisoner-of-war status (Part III)

Title in Final Act: Methods and means of warfare combatant and prisoner-of-war status (Part III)

Methods and means of warfare (Part III, Section I) Original title: Methods and means of combat (Par't I II, Section I)

Methods and mean~ of warfare - combatant and prisonerof war status (Part III) .

Original title: Methods and means of combat prisoner-of-war status (Part III)

Military personnel engaged in civil defence tasks (Article 58 bis)

Missing and dead; graves (Article 18 bis) Title in Final Act: Missing and dead persons (Part II, Section III)

Missing and dead persons (Part II, Section III) Original title: Missing and dead; graves (Article 18 bis) Subsequently:-information on the victims of a conflict and xemains of deceased (Part II, Section Ibis)

Missing persons-cPart II, Section I bis, Article 20 ter) Article 33 of the Final Act

Missing persons (Part II, Section III, Article 33) Original title: Missing persons (Article 18 bis) Subsequently: Missing persons (Article 20 te~

Mutual assistance in criminal matters (Article 7~ Article 88 of the Final Act

Neutral and other States not Parties to a conflict (Article 19)

Original title: States not parties to a conflict (Article 19)

Neutralized localities (Article 53) Title in Final Act: Demilitarized zones (Article 60)

Neutral or other States not Parties to the conflict (Article 31)

Original title: States not parties to the conflict (Article 32)

277-278

192

153-177

153-192

153-177

153-192

270

90, 98-109

90, . 98-109

98

90,98

337

94-95

148-152

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New category of prisoners of war (AJ"ticle 11:2)

Title in Final Act: Combatants and prisoners of war (Article 44)

New Section III (Part V) New weapons (Article 34)

Ar ticle 36 of tlle Fillal .Act Non-defended localities (Article 52)

Article 59 of the Final Act Notification (Article 25)

Deleted Notifications (Article 88)

Article 100 of the final Act Notifications and agreements concerning medical aircraft (Article 29)

OriGinal title: Agrce~ents and notifications (Article 30)

Objects indispensable to tJle survival of t"h,::" civilian popUlation (Article 48)

Article 54 of the final Act Objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian

popUlation (Article 66) (See NOTE, page 296) Obligation to make reparation for breaches of the present Protocol (Part V bis)

Occupants of aircraft (ArtJ:-cle 42) , OriGinal title: Aircraft occupants (Article 39)

Occupied territories (Article 56) Title in Final Act: Civil defence in occupied territories' (Article 63)

Optional use (IeRC draft - Annex, Article 7) Annex I, Article 5 of the Final Act

Organization and discipline (Article 41) Title in Final Act: Armed forces (Article 43)

Other means of communication (ICRC draft - Annex, Article 12)

Annex I, Article 11 of the Final Act Other medical ships and craft (Article 24)

Replaced Protection (Article 24) Article 23 of the Final Act

Perfidious use of the protective signs (Article 75) Included as sub-paragraph 3(f) in Article 74

Periodical revision (ICRC draft --Annex, Chapter V) Permanent civilian medical personnel (ICRC draft Annex, Article 1)

Title in Final Act: Identity card for permanent civilian medical and religious personnel (Annex I, Article 1)

178-186

346 159-161

235-239

126-127

362

141-143

215--219

296-297

347

172':"173

254-258

373-374, 385-386 176-177

376-377. 394

122-125

325-326

378 370-371,

380

.;,. 184

Personnel participating in relief actions (Article 71) Original title: Relief persohnel (Article 62 bis)

Persons not entitled to prisoner-of-war status (Article 42 ter)

Wi thdraw-nPrealnble Precautionary measures (Part IV, Section I, Chapter IV) Precautions against the effects of attacks (Article 51)

Article 58 of the Final Act Precautions in attack (Article 50)

Article 57 of the Final Act Prisoner-of-war status (Part III, Section II)

Title in final Act: Combatant and prisoner-of-war status (Part III, Section II)

Procedure (ICRC clraft - Annex, Article 16) Subsequently: Revision of the Annex (Article 18.bis) Title in Final Act:: ,Revision of Annex I (Article98)

Prohibition of perfidy (Article 35) Article 37 of the Final Act

Prohibition of reprisals (Article 20) Prohibition of unnecessary injury (Article 33)

Title in Final Act: Basic rules (Article 35) Protection (Article 24)

Replaced by Other medical ships and craft (Article 24) Article 23 of the Final Act

Protection and care (Article 10) Protection of children (Article 68)

Article 77 of the Final Act Protection of civ~lian medical and religious personnel (Article 15)

Original title: Civilian medical and religious personnel (Article 15)

Protection of civilians and civilian objects (Article 59 bis)

Wi thrlracm Protection of cultural objects and of places of worship (Article 53)

Original title: Cultural objects (Article 47 bis) Protection of journalists engaged in dangerous missions

(new article after Article 69) Title in Final Act: Measures of protection for journalists (Part IV, Section III, Chapter III, Article 79)

Protection of medical aircraft (new Article 26) Article 24 of the Final Act

Protection of medical units (Article 12) Original title: Medical units (Article 12)

285

191

3-4 227-234 232-23 l f

227-231

178-192

91-93, 378

162-165

96-97 154-158

122-125

57-59 300-301

72-75

276

213-215

303

131-132

63-65

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Paae_J:"L-

Protection of persons (Article 11) 60-62 Protection of persons taking a part 1n hostilities 189-190

(Article 42 bis (b» Title in-Final Act: Protection of persons who have taken part in hostilities (Article 45)

Protection of persons who have taken part in 189-190 hostilities (Article 45)

Original title: Pr'otectioll of persons taking a part in hostilities (ArticJe 42 bis (b»

Protection of prisoners of war' (Article"-i"12 bIs (a») 187-188 Protection of "the civilian popUlation (Art:lcle 46) 200-206

Article Sl of the final Act Protection of the natul'al environment (Article ll8 bis 220-221, and Article 49 pis) 226

Article 55 of the Final {\ct Protection of women (Article G7) 298-299

Article 76 of the Firial Act Protection of works and installations containing 222-225 dangerous forces (Article 56)

Original title: Works and installations containing dangerous forces (Article 49)

Purpose (Section I bis, Article 20 bis) 98 Title in Final Act: General principle (Article 32)

Qualified persons (Article 6) 36-38 Quarter (Article 38 bis) 169-170,

Original title :--Safeguard of an enemy hors de 171 combat and giving quater (Article 38) Article 40 bf the Final Act

Radio communications (Annex I, Article 9) 392 Radio identification signal (Annex, Article 8 1n 374

CDDH/ll/49/Rev.l) Radio signal (Annex I, Articl~ 7) 375,

Original title: Unilateral radio signal 388-389 (lCRC draft - Annex, Article 9)

Ratification (Article 81) 349 Article 93 of the Final Act

Recognized emblems (Article 38) 166 Original title: Recognized slgns (Article 36)

Recognized signs (Article 36) 166 Title in Final Act: Recognized emblems (Article 38)

Red shield of David (Article 2 bis (b» 14 Wi thdra,vn

Refugees and stateless persons (Article 64) 287 Article 73 of the Final Act

Registration (Article 89) 363 Article 101 of the Final Act

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Regulations concerning identification (Annex I to 367-402 Protocol I)

Original title: Regulations concerning the identification, recognition and marking of medical personnel, units of transport and civil defence personnel, equipment of transports (ICRC draft - Annex to Protocol I)

Regulations concerning the identification, recognition 367-402 and marking of medical personnel, units of transport and civil defence personnel, equipment of transports (ICRC draft --Annex to Protocol I)

Title in Final Act: Regulations concerning identification (Annex I to Protocol I)

Relief actions (Article 62) 282-284 Article 70 bf the Final Act

Relief in favour of the _civilian popuJation (Part IV, 280-285 Section II)

Relief personnel (Article 62 bis) 285 Title in Final Act: Personnel participating in relief actiQns (Article 71)

Remains of deceased (Part II, Section III, Article 34) Original title: Remains of deceased (Part II, Section I, Article 18 bis) Subsequently: Remains of deceased (Part II, Section I bis, Article 20 quater)

Repat~iation on close of hostilities (Article 75 bis) 327 Withdrawn

Repression of breaches of the Conventions and of the 317-345 present Protocol (Part V, Section II)

Title in Final Act~ Repression of breaches of the Conventions and of this Protocol (Part V, Section II)

Repression of breaches of the present Protocol 317-322 (Article 74)

Title in Final Act: Repression of breaches of this Protocol (Article 85)

Reprisals (Article 70 bis (b» 313 Withdrawn

Reprisals (Article 74 bis) 323-324 Withdrawn

Requisition (Article 14) Title in Final Act: Limitations on requisition of civilian medical units (Article 14)

Reservations (Article 85) 357-358 Rejected by Committee I

Respect for the Conventions and the Protocol 14 (Article 2 bis (a»

Withdrawn

98

69-71

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Pesponsibility (neh7 artie}'-:" ])<::,fore Article 80) Ar·tic:Le 91 of tl1(:~ rinal Act

Restrictions (Article 29) Title in Final Act: Restrictions on operations of medical aircraft (Article 28)

Re s tr ict ion s on 0 l:;era"c ion s of medica 1 aix'cI'dft (j\pticle 28)

Original title: RestrlcLions (Article 29) Reunion of dispersed f0miljFb (Article 64 b~s)

Article 74 of Hl'c! Fillal Act Revision of Annex I (Article 9A)

Original title: Procedure (ICRC draft - Annex, Article l{)

Subsequently: Rev_lsion of the Annex (M'ticle IS' bif3)

Revision of the Anne:x (l\r-tic~le 13 bis) Original title: Procedure (leRC draft - Annex, Article 16)

Title in Final Act: Revision of Annex 1 (Article 98)

Role of the civilian popUlation (Article 17) Title in Final Act: Role of the civilian popUlation and of aid societies (J\r-ti_cle 1'7)

Role of the civilian popUlation and of aid societies (t,rticle 17)

Origillal title: Role of the civilian popUlation CAr'ticle: 17)

RuJes of application (Article 73) Article 84 o~ the Final Act

Safeguard of an enemy hors de combat (Article 41) Original title: Safeguard of an enemy hors de combat and giving quarter (Article 38)

Safeguard of an enemy hors de combat and giving quarter (Article 38)

Title in Final Act: Quarter (Article 40) and Safeguard of an enemy hors de combat (Article 41)

Scope of the present Protocol (Article 1) Title in Final Act: Gen~ral principles and scope of application (Article 1)

Searcr for h,unded (Article 22) Deleted

Secondary radar identification such as IFF/SIF (Annex, Article 9 in CDDH/II/49/Rev.l)

Seconda:C'y sUJ'veillance radar system signal (ICRC draft Annex, Article 11)

Title in Final Act: Electronic identification (Annex I, Article 8)

3 117

138-1LIO

138-1'-;0

288

91-93, 378-:-1'/9

91--93, 378-3'/9

82-55

82-8G

316

169-170

169-170

5-9

115

374

375-376

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Sectors controlled by enemy forces (Article 28) Title in Final Act: Medical aircraft in areas controlled by an adverse Party (Article 27)

Sectors controlled by national and allied forces (Ari~ j c 1 e 26)

B£pJaced by Hedical aircraft in areas not controlled by an adverse Party (Article 26 bis) Article 25 of the Final Act

Settlement of disagr'eements (Article 7 tel") ItJi thdrawn

Shape and natur'e (ICRC drafT - Annex, Article 5) Annex I, Article 3 of the Final Act

Signals and pr'ocedures for the interception of medical,air'craft (Annex I, Article 13)

Signature (Article 80) Article 92 of the Final Act

Special agreements and declarations during hostilities (Article 84 bis (a»

Withdrawn Spies (Article 4D)

Original title: Independent mlSSlons (Article 40) Standing body (Article 5 bis)

Withdrawn -- States not parties to a conflict (Article 19)

Title in Final Act: Neutral and other States not Parties to a conflict (Article 19)

States not parties to the conflict (Article 32) Title in Final Act: Neutral or other States not Parties to thE conflict (Article 31)

Status of military units assigned exclusively to civil defence tasks (new Article 59 ter)

Superior orders (Article 77) Rejected in plenary

Supplies (Article 61) Title in Final Act: Basic needs In occupied territories (Article 69)

Temporary civilian medical personnel (ICRC draft - Annex, Article 2)

Title in Final Act: Identity card for temporary civilian medical and religious personnel (Annex I, Article 2)

Terminology (Article 8) Original title: Definitions (Article 8)

The distinctive emblem (Annex I, Chapter II) Original title: Distinctive emblem (ICRC draft Annex, Chapter II)

Treatment of convicted prisoners of war (new Article 78 bis)

Withdrawn

136-137

129-130

43

372-373, 383

3'77 ,396

348

174-175

35

94-95

148-152

279

331-332

281

370, 381-382

45-53

372-373, 383-384

336

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Treatlilcnt of persons in the power of a Party to the conflict (Par't IV, Section III)

Treaty relations upon entry into force of the present Protocol (Article 84)

Title in Final /,ct: Tl"Caty relatiolls upon entry into force of this Protocol (Article 9G)

Unilateral radio signal (ICRC draft - Annex, ArticJe 9) Title in final Act: Radio signal (Annex I, Article '7)

Use (lCRC draft - Annex, Article 6) Annex I, Article 4 of t11e Final /,ct

Use of internaiional codes (rCRC draft - Annex, Article 13)

Annex I, Article 10 of the Final Act

\vorks and instalJations contClining dallgn'ou~c; forcc~s (Annex I, Chapter VI)

Works and instaJlations containing dangerous forces ( AFt i c 1 e 4 9 )

Title in Final Act: Protection of works and installations containing dangerous forces (Article 56)

Wounded, sick and shipwrecked (Part II) Original title: Wounded, sick and shipwrecked persons (Part II)

Woun6ed, sick an'd srlip;,Jrecked persons (Part II) Title in Final Act: Wounded, sick and shipwrecked (Part II)

Zones of military operations (Article 55) Title in Final Act: General protection (Article 62)

286-303

352-353

374 388-389

372-373, 384

376-377, 393

379 1101-1-1 02

222-225

44-152

44--152

250-253

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PRO T 0 COL II (contained in volume IV)

Accession (Article 42) Article 22 of the Final Act

Amendment (Article 44) Article 24 of the Final Act

Authentic texts (Article 28) Original title: Authentic texts and translations (Article 47)

Authentic texts and offici21 translations Title in final Act: Authentic texts

official

(Article 47) (Articl~ 28)

115

117

121

121

Basic rules (Article 24) Rejected in.plenary

71·-72

Civil defence (Part V, Chapter II) CiviJian popUlation (Part V)

Part IV of the Final Act Co-operation in the observance of the

(Article 39) Rejected in plenary

present Protocol

96-100 71-104

IJ.2

Definition (Article 25) Rejected in plenary

Definition (Article 31) Deleted

Definitions (Article 11) Rejected in p'lenary

Denunciation (Article 44 bis) Article 25 of the Final Act

Dissemination (Article 37) Article 19 of the Final Act

73 -7 If

98-99

39':"43

118

110

Entry into force (Article 43) Article 23 of the Final Act

Execution of the present Protocol (Part VII)

116

109-112

Final provisions (Part VIII) Part V of the Final Act

Foreign states (Article 19 guinguies) Withdrawn

Fundamental guarantees (Article 6) (Article 4 of the Final Act)

113-121

62

18-20

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Geller'al Protection against effects of hostili ti es (Part V, Chapter I)

General protection of civilian objects (Article 26 bis) Rejected in plenary

General protection of medical duties (Article 16) Article 10 of the final A~t

Humane treatment (Part II) Original title: Humane treatment of persons in the pL~er of the Parties to the conflict (Part II)

Humane treatme~t of persons in the power of the Parties to the conflict (Part II)

TitJe in ~inal Act: Humane treatment (Part II)

Identification (Article 31 his) WithdrahlD

Interned families (Article 8 bis) WithdraltJD

Legal status of the Parties to the confJ.ict (Article 3) Rejected in plenary

Material field of application (Article 1) Measures for ex~cution (Article 36)

Rejected in plenary Measures in favour of children (Part V, Chapter III) Medical and religious personnel (Article 15)

Title in fin~l Act: Protection of medical and religious personnel (Article 9)

Medical units and transports (Article 17) Title in final Act: Protection of medical units and transports (Article 11)

Methods and means of combat (Part IV)

National Red Cross and other relief societies (Article 35)

Deleted New Section III - Draft Code of International Crimes in Violation of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the Additional Protocols (Annex I to the Table of Amendments)

Non-intervention (Article 4) Article 3 of the final Act

Notifications (Article 45) Articlp 26 of the final Act

71-95

82-83

55-56

18-37

18-37

100

29

14-15

6-10 109

101-10l} 52-54

57-58

63-70

108

125-152

16

119

32-36

- 193 ...

Penal prosecutions (Article 10) Article 6 of the Final Act

Personal field of application (Article 2) Persons whose liberty has been restricted (Article 8)

Article 5 of the Final Act Preamble Precautions in attack (Article 28 ter)

Rej ected '. Principles of penal law (Article 9)

Incorporated in Article 10 Privileged treatment (Article 32)

Incorporated in Article 4 Prohibition of forced movement of civilians (Article 29)

Article 17 of the Finftl Act Prohibition of perfidy (Article 21)

Rejected in plenary Prohibition of reprisals (Article 10 bis)

Rejected in plenary Prohibition of reprisals (Article 19)

Deleted Prohibition of unnecessary injury (Article 20)

Rejected in plenary Protection and care (Article 12)

Article 7 of the Final Act Protection of cuitural objects and of places of worship (Article 20 bis)

Article 16 of the-Final Act Protection of meDical and religious personnel

(Article 9) Original title: Medical and religious personnel (Article 15)

Protection of medical units and transports (Article 11) Original title: Medical units and transports (Article 17)

Protection of objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population (Article 27)

Article 14 of the Final Act Protection of persons (Article 12 bis)

Rejected in plenary Protection of the civilian population (Article 26)

Article 13 of the Final Act Protection of the natural environment (Article 28 bis)

Incorporated in Article 20 Protection of wo.men (Article 6 bis)

Rejected in plenary Protection of works and installations containing

dangerous forces (Article 28) Article 15 of the Final Act

11-13 23-28

3 92-93

30-31

101-104

94-95

67

37

60

63-64

44-46

52-54

57-58

84-87

47-48

75-81

91

21

88-90

-.194

Quarter (Article 22) 68 Rejected in plenary

Ratification (Article 41) 114 Article 21 of the Final Act

Recognized signs (Article 23) 70 Rejected in plenary

Recording and information (Article 34) 107 Rejected in plenary

Registration (Article 46) 120 Article 27 of the Final Act

Relief (Part VI) 105-108 Relief Actions' (Article 33) 105-106

Title in Final Act: Relief societies and relief actions (Article 18)

Relief societies and relief actions (Article 18) 105-106 Original title: Relief actions (Article 33)

Respect and protection (Article 30) 96-97 Rejected in plenary

Rights and duties of the Parties to the conflict 17 (Article 5)

Rejected in plenary Role of the civilian population (Article 14) 50-51

Rejected in plenary

Safeg~ard of an enemy hors de dombat (Article 7) 22 Safeguard of an enemy hors de combat (Article 22 bis) 69

Rejected in plenary Scope of the prese'nt Protocol (Part 1) 4-17

Title in Final Act: Scope of this Protocol (Part I)

Scope of this Protocol (Part I) 4-17 Original title: Scope of the present Protocol (Part I)

Search (Article 8) 49 Original title: Search and evacuation (Article 13)

Search and evacuation (Article 13) 49 Title in Final Act: Search (Article 8)

Signature (Article 40) 113 Article 20 of the Final Act

Special agreements (Article 38) III Rejected in plenary

The distinctive emblem (Article 18) 59 Article 12 of the Final Act

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Wounded, sick and shipwrecked (Part III) 38-62 Or':i8inal title: Wounded, sick and shipwrecked persons (Port III)

Wounded, sick and shipwrecked persons (Part III) 38-62 Title in Final Act: Wounded, sick and slliph1pecked (Part I I I)