Skip to main content

Geneva Conventions

Volume 110: debated on Thursday 12 February 1987

The text on this page has been created from Hansard archive content, it may contain typographical errors.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs why the United Kingdom has not ratified the 1977 first and second additional protocols to the Geneva conventions of 1949; whether there is any intention to review the decision; and if he will make a statement.

We support the aim and spirit of the additional protocols which we signed in 1977. The present position is that we are consulting with our NATO partners but I am not able to say when we may proceed with ratification.