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A look at the Declaration of St. Petersburg of 1868

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

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The Declaration of st. Petersburg of 1868
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1993

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References

page 511 note 1 Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field, of 24 April 1863.

page 511 note 2 Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field, of 22 August 1864.

page 511 note 3 Declaration of St. Petersburg of 11 December 1868 (29 November by the old Russian calendar) Renouncing the Use, in Time of War, of Explosive Projectiles Under 400 grammes Weight. (See Annex pp. 515–516).

page 512 note 4 The States signatory to the Declaration of St. Petersburg are as follows:

Austria-Hungary, Bavaria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Prussia and the North German Confederation, Russia, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, Wurtemberg.

Baden and Brazil acceded to the Declaration on 11 January and 23 October 1869 respectively.

page 513 note 5 See the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), Article 36 (“New weapons”).