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Saudi Arabia
Practice Relating to Rule 70. Weapons of a Nature to Cause Superfluous Injury or Unnecessary Suffering
Article 20 of the draft Additional Protocol II, prohibiting the use of weapons of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering, was deleted at the last moment by the CDDH, without any plenary debate, as part of a general revision of the 1977 Additional Protocol II. During the amendment voting at this stage, Saudi Arabia stated:
Article 20 (Basic rules) was rejected in a vote … since the legitimate party to an internal conflict is the de jure State. Obviously it will never try to exterminate its nationals or to damage its environment.
Saudi Arabia, Statement at the CDDH, Official Records, Vol. VII, CDDH/SR.51, 3 June 1977, p. 123.
