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The application of humanitarian law by the armed forces of the United Nations Organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Yves Sandoz
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The events in Lebanon and the despatch of a UN armed force to keep the peace there brings into focus a problem which cannot be ignored, the application of international humanitarian law in armed conflicts. This problem has two aspects:

— What is the nature of the armed forces which the UN commits or can commit at the present time?

— To what extent are these armed forces obliged to apply humanitarian law?

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Research Article
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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 18 , Issue 206 , October 1978 , pp. 274 - 284
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1978

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page 274 note 1 Certain writers, notably Rölling, think that the first aim of the UN has now become the search for justice, rather than peace-keeping.

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page 280 note 1 UN Doc. A/9827, p. 7.

page 283 note 1 Up to now, Protocol I has been signed by 52 states, Protocol II by 49; both have been ratified by Ghana and Libya and will thus come into force on 7 December 1978.