For two days the participants (and a 48 lawyers and professionals from Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Organization of the Collective Security Treaty and the Interparliamentary Assembly of the CIS) have discussed the problems associated with the use and distribution of prohibited weapons. This work resulted in recommendations on legislative measures to be taken in the states to ensure respect for international humanitarian law.
As for the relevance of the theme, here and say nothing. Although in the world there is no any organized state, which would not be recognized by the international humanitarian law (this is especially the Geneva and Hague Conventions), but, nonetheless, wars are fought, and not always by the book. Once there, beyond the borders of the region, blazes, not relax. As rightly pointed adviser UN during the war to negotiate on anything late.
Case history
Frederick the Great had once claimed to be able to wage war so that the local people do not notice what is happening. Since then a lot has happened. The days of disgruntled aristocrats and ambitious emperors. Emerged with a powerful state bureaucracy and infrastructure able to drive away under arms, hundreds of thousands of recruits, and the war got a totally different scale. A scientific and technical progress and pepper added sophistication. The military doctrines of the last century the target of military operations were considered not only the military forces of the enemy, but, and centers of civilian population - large cities and densely populated areas. The culmination of this approach was the day of August 6, 1945, when was dropped on Hiroshima
one single bomb, which killed 75,000 residents immediately. Military necessity, in a bombing there was no: Japan had already lost the war, but the whole world is silent, waiting: but then what will happen?
After the last plague in the recorded history of the war some countries have decided to conclude an agreement on how athletes can and can not be conducted as a battle. This is how the Geneva Conventions. However, the military thought goes on, all invented, invents, and this leads to the need for periodic concluding additional agreements, which together now make up the so-called international humanitarian law.
Historically, this process looks like this:
1949 - signed the Geneva Convention on the protection of war victims. They protect the prisoners of war, the wounded, the sick, caring for their staff, the buildings in which they are located, as well as the civilian population in the occupied territories (the conventions signed by most countries - 194);
1977 - Additional Protocols I and II to the Geneva Conventions, which extend the scope of protection of civilians of objects indispensable to the survival of the population, and restricts the means and methods of warfare;
1972 - Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction;
1980 - Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons (use of booby traps, incendiary weapons against the civilian population);
1993 - Convention banning chemical weapons;
1997 - Convention banning anti-personnel mines;
2000 - Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which sets the minimum age for participation in hostilities to 18 years;
2008 - The Convention, which prohibits the use of cluster munitions ...
The above chronology is incomplete and, I think, is still far from complete.
Criminals in any case remain
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