Norway advocates making the Additional Protocol mandatory.

AND RELATING TO THE PROTECTION OF VICTIMS OF ARMED CONFLICTS

Recalling with satisfaction the adoption of the Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War (Protocol V) at the Meeting of the States Parties held at Geneva on 27 and 28 November 2003

Japan welcomed the decision of the Islamic Republic of Iran to act in accordance with the additional protocol, pending its entry into force.

A protocol is annexed to the Treaty for accession by nuclear weapon States.

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The EU therefore continues to support universalization of the Additional Protocol and urges those that have not yet completed comprehensive safeguards agreements with Additional Protocols to do so as a matter of urgency.

The additional protocol whose drafting was proposed should, therefore, dispense with such a requirement.

Calls for universal accession to the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreements and Additional Protocols.

The United States is not a party to Additional Protocol I.

A prohibition of that type already appeared in the provisions of Protocol II Additional to the Geneva Conventions. Any exception to that rule would only weaken the Additional Protocol.

The Executive Director also emphasized the importance of the three proposed additional instruments or protocols and asked the Committee to make every effort possible to conclude their elaboration together with the convention.

2. Calls upon all States parties to the Geneva Conventions that have not yet done so to consider becoming parties to the Additional Protocols at the earliest possible date

The present report describes the status of the Convention and the Optional Protocol.

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IAEA Comprehensive Safeguards Agreements and Additional Protocols

It must also reaffirm the necessity of the commitment to conclude IAEA safeguards agreements, including the additional protocol, which should be proclaimed an indispensable verification standard.

His Government hoped to conclude an additional protocol at the earliest opportunity.

Seven years after the adoption by the Board of Governors of IAEA of the Model Protocol Additional to Agreements between States and IAEA for the Application of Safeguards, only 83 States parties to the Treaty had signed additional protocols and only 39 of them had taken the necessary measures for their entry into force.

Noting that, in conformity with article 8 of the Convention, conferences may be convened to examine amendments to the Convention or to any of the Protocols thereto, to examine additional protocols concerning other categories of conventional weapons not covered by existing Protocols or to review the scope and application of the Convention and the Protocols annexed thereto and to examine any proposed amendments or additional protocols,

2. Calls upon all States parties to the Geneva Conventions that have not yet done so to consider becoming parties to the Additional Protocols at the earliest possible date

An additional protocol could provide for punishment of ecocide , for example.

Austria is a member of the informal group Friends of the Additional Protocol convened by Japan, which is working actively towards the universalization of comprehensive safeguards agreements and additional protocols.

The Slovak Republic has, however, made the following reservation concerning the second additional protocol The Slovak Republic avails itself of the right set out in Article 33 paragraph 2 of the second additional protocol not to accept Articles 16, 17, 19 and 20 of the Protocol in their entirety.

Annexes to this Protocol and amendments to annexes to this Protocol shall be adopted at an ordinary session of the Meeting of the Parties.

In 2003, Timor Leste acceded to the 1951 Convention and its 1967 Protocol and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines acceded to the Protocol, bringing the total number of States that have acceded to at least one of these instruments to 145.

In recent years, the additional protocol to comprehensive safeguards agreements had proved its worth.

2. Appeals to all States parties to the Geneva Conventions that have not yet done so to consider becoming parties to the Additional Protocols at the earliest possible date

Thailand was finalizing domestic procedures for such an additional protocol.

In the NPT context, Canada has repeatedly pointed to the important role of the additional protocols in strengthening the IAEA's ability to provide assurances of the absence of undeclared nuclear material.

Call for universal accession to the comprehensive safeguards agreements and additional protocols, and recognize that comprehensive safeguards agreements and additional protocols have a deterrent effect on nuclear proliferation and form today's verification standard

In that regard, the verification capabilities of IAEA must be strengthened through the universal application of the additional protocol, which the Republic of Korea had ratified on 19 February 2004 and which it urged those States parties which had not yet done so to sign and ratify as soon as possible.

He again called upon all nuclear weapon States to accede to the Protocol to that Treaty.

Comparable prohibitions are set forth in the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols.

The Safeguards Act gives effect to Australia's obligations under

Noting that, in conformity with article 8 of the Convention, conferences may be convened to examine amendments to the Convention or to any of the Protocols thereto, to examine additional protocols concerning other categories of conventional weapons not covered by existing Protocols or to review the scope and application of the Convention and the Protocols thereto and to examine any proposed amendments or additional protocols,

2. Appeals to all States parties to the Geneva Conventions that have not yet done so to consider becoming parties to the additional Protocols at the earliest possible date

2. Appeals to all States parties to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 that have not yet done so to consider becoming parties to the additional Protocols at the earliest possible date

Ukraine fully endorses measures envisaged under the Additional Protocol.

Japan has made great contributions to the process of establishing the Additional Protocol.

It would therefore be preferable to envisage the drafting of an additional protocol.

It encourages the States parties to conclude with IAEA the Additional Protocol.

It was also recommended that the terminology of the optional protocol should not go beyond that contained in the Protocol II Additional to the 1949 Geneva Conventions.

It was also recommended that the terminology of the optional protocol should not go beyond that contained in the Protocol II Additional to the 1949 Geneva Conventions .

Annexes I to IV formed an integral part of the Protocol at the time of its adoption.