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Practice Relating to Rule 11. Indiscriminate Attacks
VI. Other National Practice
In 1996, the Monitoring Group on the Implementation of the 1996 Israel-Lebanon Ceasefire Understanding, consisting of France, Israel, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic and the United States, issued communiqués requesting that all parties avoid arbitrary or indiscriminate attacks on inhabited areas which directly or indirectly endangered civilian life or integrity. 
Monitoring Group on the Implementation of the 1996 Israel-Lebanon Ceasefire Understanding, Communiqué, 22 September 1996; Communiqué, 14–18 October 1996.
On the basis of a statement by the Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs before the UN General Assembly in 1997, the Report on the Practice of the Syrian Arab Republic asserts that the Syrian Arab Republic considers Article 51(4) of the 1977 Additional Protocol I to be part of customary international law. 
Report on the Practice of the Syrian Arab Republic, 1997, Chapter 1.4, referring to Statement by the Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs before the UN General Assembly, 1 October 1997.