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Geneva protocol

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Geneva protocol
n
(Law) the agreement in 1925 to ban the use of asphyxiating, poisonous, or other gases in war. It does not ban the development or manufacture of such gases


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He points to the addition of the Geneva Protocols, which were approved in 1977, and more recent treaties banning the use of land mines and cluster munitions as evidence that the Conventions are no static document.
If you take chemical weapons, the 1925 Geneva Protocol was ratified by the US in 1975.
The existing 1925 Geneva protocol was inadequate, he says, because it allowed countries to stock chemical weapons for defensive use.
 
 
 
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