Table Of ContentOFFICIAL RECORDS
OF THE
DIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE
ON THE REAFFIRMATION AND DEVELOPMENT
OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW APPLICABLE
IN ARMED CONFLICTS
GENEVA (1974 -1977)
VOLUME XIV
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
Volume I contains the Final Act, the resolutions adopted by the Conference, and the draft
Additional Protocols prepared by the International Conunittee of the Red Cross. Volume II contains
the rules of procedure, the list of participants, the Designation aux difterents postes de la
Conference*, the Liste des documents*, the report of the Drafting Conunittee and the reports of
the Credentials Conunittee for the four sessions of the Conference. Volumes III and IV contain the
table of amendments. Volumes V to VII contain the sununary records of the plenary meetings of
the Conference. Volumes VIII to X contain the sununary records and reports of Conunittee I.
Volumes XI to XIII contain the sununary records and reports of Conunittee II. Volumes' XIV
and XV contain the sununary records and repurts of Conunittee III, and volume XVI contains
the sununary records and reports of the Ad Hoc Conunittee 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
Records contains only the documents originally 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
Final Act only has been translated into Chinese.
*Document circulated in French only.
On sale at Fidg. Drucksachen . und Materialzentrale, 3000 Bern, and at booksellers.
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OFFICIAL RECORDS
OF THE
J)IPLOMATIC CONFERENCE
ON THE REAFFIRMATION AND DEVELOPMENT
OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW APPLICABLE
IN ARMED CONFLICTS.
GENEVA (1974 -1977)
VOLUME XIV
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OFFICIAL· RECORDS
OF THE
DIPLOMA TIC CONFERENCE
ON THE REAFFIRMATION AND DEVELOPMENT
OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW APPLICABLE
IN ARMED CONFLICTS
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)
21APRIL-ll 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
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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:
GENEV A 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
GENEV A CONVENTION RELATIVE TO THE PROTECTION OF CIVILIAN PERSONS IN TIME
OF WAR OF AUGUST 12, 1949
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CONTENTS
SUMMARY RECORDS OF COMMITTEE III
I. First session (CDDH/III/SR.1-12) ............ . 1
II. Second session (CDDH/III/SR.13-40) .......... . 95
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
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