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Synopsis VIII — Conventions and Neutral Powers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Jean de Preux*
Affiliation:
Former Legal Adviser at the ICRC

Extract

A neutral Power may authorize the passage over its territory of the sick and wounded belonging to the belligerent armies, on condition that the trains bringing them shall carry neither personnel nor war material. In such a case, the neutral Power is bound to take whatever measures of safety and control are necessary for the purpose (Hague Conv. No. V, Art. 14). (Personnel and materials necessary to treat the sick and wounded are consequently authorized).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1989

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References

1 Except where indicated otherwise, the Roman numerals refer to the First (I), the Second (II), the Third (III) and the Fourth (IV) Geneva Conventions (C). The abbreviation P. I stands for Additional Protocol I.

2 See Greenspan, Morris, The Modern Law of Land Warfare, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1959, p. 567.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 IRRC, No. 248, 0910 1985, pp. 292302.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 Ibid, No. 254, September–October 1986, pp. 268–278.

5 Ibid, No. 245, March–April 1985, pp. 86–95.