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Argentina
Practice Relating to Rule 25. Medical Personnel
Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1969) restates Articles 24–26 of the 1949 Geneva Convention I.
Argentina, Leyes de Guerra, RC-46-1, Público, II Edición 1969, Ejército Argentino, Edición original aprobado por el Comandante en Jefe del Ejército, 9 May 1967, §§ 3.008–3.010.
Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1989) defines medical personnel with reference to Articles 24–25 of the 1949 Geneva Convention I and Article 8 of the 1977 Additional Protocol I.
Argentina, Leyes de Guerra, PC-08-01, Público, Edición 1989, Estado Mayor Conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas, aprobado por Resolución No. 489/89 del Ministerio de Defensa, 23 April 1990, § 2.10.
The manual states: “Medical personnel, whether civilian or military, permanent or temporary, shall be protected and respected in all circumstances.”
Argentina, Leyes de Guerra, PC-08-01, Público, Edición 1989, Estado Mayor Conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas, aprobado por Resolución No. 489/89 del Ministerio de Defensa, 23 April 1990, § 2.11.
With respect to non-international armed conflicts in particular, the manual states that medical personnel “shall be respected, protected and assisted in the performance of their duties in favour of all wounded and sick without any discrimination”.
Argentina, Leyes de Guerra, PC-08-01, Público, Edición 1989, Estado Mayor Conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas, aprobado por Resolución No. 489/89 del Ministerio de Defensa, 23 April 1990, § 7.06.
Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1969) lists among the conditions not depriving fixed establishments and mobile medical units of their protection “the fact that the personnel of the unit or establishment are armed and use their arms in their own defence or in that of the wounded and sick in their charge”.
Argentina, Leyes de Guerra, RC-46-1, Público, II Edición 1969, Ejército Argentino, Edición original aprobado por el Comandante en Jefe del Ejército, 9 May 1967, § 3.007.
