100. Presentation of the Federal Chancellor concerning the scope of the Convention on the Prohibition or Restriction of the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injiy or to Have Indiscriminate Effects, including Protocols I, II and III

According to the Communications of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the following States have ratified their instruments of ratification or ratification. Instruments of accession to the Convention on the Prohibition or Restriction of the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurisable or to Have Indiscriminate Effects, including Protocols I, II and III (BGBl. N ° 464/1983, last proclamation of the BGBl area. III n ° 26/2008):

In addition, the United States 1 on the 21. In 2009, they expressed their consent to be bound by Protocol III and, on the occasion of the following reservation, declared:

With reference to Art. 2 (2) and (3), the United States of America reserves the right to use fire-promoting weapons against military targets where there is a collection of civilian objects in which the assessment is based on: shows that such an operation could cause fewer losses and/or less collateral damage than the use of alternative weapons systems. In doing so, the United States of America will take all feasible precautions to limit the fire-promoting impact on the military target, and to the incidental loss of life of civilians and the To avoid damage to civilians and to avoid damage to civilian objects, and at least to minimize them.

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