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Practice Relating to Rule 148. Reprisals in Non-International Armed Conflicts
VI. Other National Practice
At the CDDH, the Holy See expressed its favourable position concerning the inclusion of draft Article 10 bis of the Additional Protocol II. 
Holy See, Statement at the CDDH, Official Records, Vol. IX, CDDH/I/SR.73, 16 May 1977, p. 428, § 12.
In its explanation of vote concerning the draft Article, the Holy See declared that it had voted for the retention of the article, “because it provided for the prohibition of reprisals”. 
Holy See, Statement at the CDDH, Official Records, Vol. VII, CDDH/SR.51, 3 June 1977, p. 120.