'League of Nations, Conference for the Supervision of the International Trade in Arms and Ammunition and in Implements of War, Geneva, 17th June 1925' [‎30r] (66/138)

PROTOCOL.
THE UNDERSIGNED PLENIPOTENTIARIES, m the name o tlieir respec
tive Governments :
W hereas the use in war of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of
all analogous liquids, materials or devices, hasbeen justly condemned by the general
opinion of the civilised world ; and
W hereas the prohibition of such use has been declared in Treaties to which
the majority of Powers of the world are Parties ; and
To the end that this prohibition shall be universally accepted as a part of
"International Law, binding alike the conscience and the practice of nations ;
DECLARE:
That the High Contracting Parties, so far as they are not already
Parties to Treaties prohibiting such use, accept this prohibition, agree
to extend this prohibition to the use of bacteriological methods of war
fare and agree to be bound as between themselves according to the
terms of this declaration.
The High Contracting Paities will exert every effort to induce other States to
accede to the present Protocol. Such accession will be notified to the Gov
ernment of the French Republic, and by the latter to all signatory and acceding
Powers, and will take effect on the date of the notification by the Government of the
French Republic. •
The present Protocol, of which the French and English texts are both authentic
shall be ratified as jsoon as possible. It shall bear to-day r s date.
The ratifications of the present Protocol shall be addressed to the Government
of the French Republic^ which will at once notify the deposit of such ratification to
each of the signatory and acceding Powers.
The instruments of ratification of and accession to the present Protocol will
remain deposited in the archives of the Government of the French Republic.
The present Protocol will come into force for each signatory Power as from the
date of deposit of its ratification, and, from that mcment, each Power will be
bound as regards other Powers which have already deposited their ratifications-
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