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The Laws of War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2009

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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press 1996

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Judge, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal and Red Cross Professor of International Humanitarian Law, Leyden University.

References

1. See, for example, Hague Conventions I–IV of 29 July 1899 and Conventions III–XIV of 18 October 1907.

2. See paras. 3 and 4 of Art. 5, which engage the ICRC in the process of finding a protecting power and obligate the parties to a conflict to accept an offer by the ICRC to substitute for a protecting power.

3. On that subject, see the Yugoslavian Tribunal's Decision of October 2, 1995, in the Tadić Case and my editorial concerning that Decision in 90 AJIL (1996) p. 64Google Scholar.

4. The San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea, of June 1994Google Scholar, contains 183 provisions and is reprinted in 309 International Review of the Red Cross (Nov.–Dec. 1995).