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Observance by United Nations forces of international humanitarian law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2010

Kofi A. Annan
Affiliation:
Secretary-General

Extract

The Secretary-General, for the purpose of setting out fundamental principles and rules of international humanitarian law applicable to United Nations forces conducting operations under United Nations command and control, promulgates the following:

The fundamental principles and rules of international humanitarian law set out in the present bulletin are applicable to United Nations forces when in situations of armed conflict they are actively engaged therein as combatants, to the extent and for the duration of their engagement.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1999

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