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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Marian Nash Leich*
Affiliation:
Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State

Extract

On January 7, 1997, President William J. Clinton transmitted to the Senate for advice and consent to ratification the following Protocols to the 1980 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects: (A) the amended Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-traps and Other Devices, adopted at Geneva on May 3, 1996 (Protocol II, or amended Mines Protocol); (B) the Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons, adopted at Geneva on October 10, 1980 (Protocol III, or the Incendiary Weapons Protocol) ; and (C) the Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons, adopted at Geneva on May 3, 1996 (Protocol IV).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1997

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References

1 See 88 AJIL 748 (1994). For the Convention and original Protocols, see 19 ILM 1524 (1980). For the amended Protocol II and Protocol IV, see 35 ILM 1206 (1996).

2 141 Cong. Rec. S4568 (daily ed. Mar. 24, 1995).

3 S. Treaty Doc. No. 105-1, at III–IV (1997).

On President Clinton’s international initiative regarding a global ban on antipersonnel land mines, see 32 Weekly Comp. Pres. Doc. 869 (May 20, 1996).

4 Id. at VII–X.