HC Deb 01 March 1971 vol 812 c331W
Mr. Greville Janner

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether the Government now intend to ratify the Geneva Convention; and when.

Mr. Kershaw

If the hon. Gentleman is referring to the Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, signed at Geneva on 17th June, 1925, the United Kingdom ratified this instrument on 9th April, 1930.