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Philippines
Practice Relating to Rule 77. Expanding Bullets
At the CDDH, the Philippines proposed an amendment to include “the use of weapons prohibited by International Conventions, namely: bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body” in the list of grave breaches in Article 74 of the draft Additional Protocol I (now Article 85).
Philippines, Proposal of amendment to Article 74 of the draft Additional Protocol I submitted to the CDDH, Official Records, Vol. III, CDDH/418, 26 May 1977, p. 322.
The proposal was rejected because it failed to obtain the necessary two-thirds majority (41 votes in favour, 25 against and 25 abstentions).
CDDH, Official Records, Vol. VI, CDDH/SR.44, 30 May 1977, pp. 288–289. (Against: Australia, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Federal Republic of Germany, German Democratic Republic, Hungary, India, Luxembourg, Monaco, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Ukraine, USSR, United Kingdom, United States and Zaire. Abstaining: Brazil, Cameroon, Cyprus, Cuba, Greece, Guatemala, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mauritania, Morocco, Nigeria, Norway, Republic of Korea, Romania, Spain, Swaziland, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda and Viet Nam.)
