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- 2. Practice
- By Country
- Italy
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Angola
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
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- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Belize
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- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
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- Bulgaria
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- Burma
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- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Congo
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- Croatia
- Cuba
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- Czech Republic
- Czechoslovakia
- Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
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- Denmark
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- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- German Democratic Republic
- Germany
- Germany, Federal Republic of
- Ghana
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Holy See
- Honduras
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Islamic Republic of Iran
- Israel
- Italy (current)
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kampuchea
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
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- Latvia
- Lebanon
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- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Madagascar
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- Mali
- Malta
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- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Monaco
- Mongolia
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- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Republic of Korea
- Republic of Moldova
- Romania
- Russian Federation
- Rwanda
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Serbia and Montenegro
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Swaziland
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- United Republic of Tanzania
- United States of America
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Viet Nam
- Yemen
- Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of
- Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of
- Zaire
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Rule 55
- Rule 1
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- Rule 55 (current)
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- Prohibition of Certain Types of Landmines
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Related Rule
Italy
Practice Relating to Rule 55. Access for Humanitarian Relief to Civilians in Need
Italy’s IHL Manual (1991) states that an occupying power has the obligation to accept the despatch of relief materials (foodstuffs, medicines, clothing) by other States or impartial humanitarian organizations, especially if the occupied population is inadequately supplied.
Italy, Manuale di diritto umanitario, Introduzione e Volume I, Usi e convenzioni di Guerra, SMD-G-014, Stato Maggiore della Difesa, I Reparto, Ufficio Addestramento e Regolamenti, Rome, 1991, Vol. I, § 48(15).
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