Practice Relating to Rule 75. Riot Control Agents
In 1931, during the League of Nations Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference, Italy, with respect to a memorandum submitted by the United Kingdom, stated that it “interprets the 1925 [Geneva Gas] Protocol to mean that ‘other gases’ include lachrymatory gases – that is to say that, subject to reciprocity, the use of lachrymatory gases is prohibited”.