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Fiftieth Anniversary of the Geneva Protocol

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

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This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Geneva Protocol of June 17, 1925 for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare. This Protocol—which has been referred to in several issues of International Review—is generally considered to be the expression of the revulsion with which public opinion has at all times reacted towards poison. This general view has led a large number of governments and publicists to draw the conclusion that the norms contained in the 1925 Geneva Protocol represent a codification of customary law.

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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 15 , Issue 176 , November 1975 , pp. 551 - 557
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1975

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page 551 note 1 See, in particular, the issues of November 1952, February 1967, June 1970 and March 1975.

page 551 note 2 For instance, the Hague Regulations of 1899 and 1907 respecting the laws and customs of war on land, and the 1972 Convention on the prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of bacteriological (biological) and toxic weapons and their destruction.

page 553 note 1 R = Reservation

page 553 note 2 Including the Netherlands East Indies, Surinam and Curaçao.