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Preamble

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2021

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Summary

The preamble to the Third Convention is very brief. It consists merely of anintroductory formula that links the title of the Convention with its operativeparts, but does not state, as is usual with preambles, the motivations behind theoperative text. Apart from a reference to the governments represented at the 1949Diplomatic Conference, it notes only that the Conference’s purpose was to revise the1929 Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War. A commentary on this rather perfunctorytext might therefore seem unnecessary. However, the Conference discussed severalmore detailed draft preambles. While these were ultimately not adopted, importantelements of them have found expression in the dispositive provisions of the GenevaConventions, justifying a discussion here of this introductory sentence and itshistorical background.

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Commentary on the Third Geneva Convention
Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
 , pp. 39 - 44
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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