[CPProt.net] Re: Al Ahram article

[Terry Martin]

It is true that Iraq ratified the 1954 Convention for the Protection of 
Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. 
http://www.icomos.org/hague/hague.convention.html  However, neither the UK 
nor the US has yet ratified this convention. 
http://www.icomos.org/hague/hague.rat.html.

The United States has ratified the Geneva Conventions of 1949 but not 
either of the two Protocols of 1977. The United Kingdom has ratified the 
Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the two Protocols of 1977. Under the 
Protocols "it is prohibited to commit any acts of hostility directed 
against historic monuments, works of art or places of worship which 
constitute the cultural or spiritual heritage of peoples, and to use them 
in support of the military effort."

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