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Agora: The U.S. Decision not to Ratify Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions on the Protection of War Victims (Cont’d)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2017
Extract
The October 1987 issue of the Journal contains an article written by Hans-Peter Gasser, the Legal Adviser to the Directorate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), on the U.S. decision not to ratify Protocol I (on international armed conflicts) to the 1949 Geneva Conventions on the Protection of War Victims. Unfortunately, the Journal did not include any response by the administration, but only the President’s necessarily brief letter of transmittal to the Senate of January 18, 1987, recommending advice and consent to ratification of Protocol II (on noninternational conflicts). The President’s letter of transmittal was not intended to be an exhaustive statement of the U.S. objections to Protocol I, nor does it purport to be such.
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- Agora: The U.S. Decision not to Ratify Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions on the Protection of War Victims (Cont’d)
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1 Gasser, An Appeal for Ratification by the United States, 81 AJIL 912 (1987).
2 Letter of Transmittal, id. at 910. The President’s letter of transmittal and Dr. Gasser’s article constituted an Agora section entitled “The U.S. Decision Not to Ratify Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions on the Protection of War Victims.”
3 Gasser, supra note 1, at 924.
4 Id.
5 Letter of Transmittal, supra note 2, at 911.
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