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Practice Relating to Rule 75. Riot Control Agents
VI. Other National Practice
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”. 
Italy, Statement before the League of Nations Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference, 15 January 1931, League of Nations Doc. C.4.M.4. 1931, IX, Documents of the Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference, Series X, Minutes of the Sixth Session (Second Part), 15 January 1931, p. 313.