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Geneva Protocol

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Geneva Protocol
A document prepared by the League of Nations during the 1925 Geneva Conference, which was intended to ban the use of chemical and biological weapons. The protocol didn’t prevent production, storage or transfer of such weapons, a loophole that was closed in the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention and the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention.

Geneva Protocol
Global village A document prepared by the League of Nations during the 1925 Geneva Conference intended to ban chemical weapons. See Chemical Weapons, Ypres. Cf Geneva Convention.


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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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