Senate ratifies Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on Use of Certain Conventional Weapons

ASTANA. January, 22. KAZINFORM /Muratbek Makulbekov/ At the plenary session the Senate of RK Parliament adopted the Law ?On ratification of the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons? and protocols to the Convention: Protocol I on non-detectable fragments, Protocol III on incendiary weapons and Protocol IV on laser blinding weapons?, Kazinform correspondent reports.

Protocols are an integral part of the Convention: the Protocol I on non-detected fragments -the main effect of which is causing injuries by fragments which are not found in the human body while X-raying; the Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons prohibits the use of incendiary weapons against civilian population and civilian objects, restricts its application to plant cover and military installations, the Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons prohibits the use of laser weapons. Vice-minister of RK Defense Ministry Bolat Sembinov emphasized that the Convention is based on the norms of international humanitarian law: prohibition on use of certain conventional weapons. The Convention was adopted on October 10, 1980 and came into force on December 2, 1983.