HC Deb 09 June 2004 vol 422 c417W
Adam Price

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which provisions of the Geneva Conventions will cease to apply in Iraq following the handover of sovereignty on 30 June. [177584]

Mr. Hoon

Those parts of the Geneva Convention that set out the rights and responsibilities of an Occupying Power will no longer be relevant when the Iraqi Interim Government assumes authority on 1 July.