TREATIES

HEARING
before the

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE
ONE HUNDRED TENTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Time: 2:30 P.M.
Place: 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Presiding: Senator Casey
 
 

    Treaties:
1. Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War (Protocol V)
   to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions
   on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons
   Which May Be Deemed To Be Excessively Injurious
   or To Have Indiscriminate Effects, done at Geneva
   on November 28, 2003 (Treaty Doc. 109-10)
2. Amendment of Article 1 of the Convention
   on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of
   Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be
   Deemed To Be Excessively Injurious or To Have
   Indiscriminate Effects, done at Geneva
   December 21, 2001 (Treaty Doc. 109-10)
3. Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural
   Property in the Event of Armed Conflict signed by the
   United States on May 14, 1954 (Treaty Doc. 106-1)
4. Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions
   on the Use of Incendiary Weapons (Protocol III)
   Additional to the Convention of October 10, 1980
   on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain
   Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed To
   Be Excessively Injurious or To Have Indiscriminate
   Effects, done at Geneva October 10, 1980
   (Treaty Doc. 105-1)
5. Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons (Protocol IV)
   Additional to the Convention on October 10, 1980
   on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain
   Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed To
   Be Excessively Injurious or To Have Indiscriminate
   Effects, done at Vienna on October 13, 1995
   (Treaty Doc. 105-1)

    Witnesses:

+The Honorable John B. Bellinger
   Legal Adviser
   Department of State
   Washington, DC

+Mr. Charles A. Allen
   Deputy General Counsel
   International Affairs
   Department of Defense
   Washington, DC

+Brigadier General Michelle D. Johnson
   Deputy Director for the War on Terrorism
   and Global Effects
   J-5 Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate
   Joint Staff
   Washington, DC


 

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