§ Mr. Ernie RossTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will propose a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council naming states recognised by the international consensus as being engaged in belligerent occupation.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydNo, because it would be difficult to reach international consensus on such a list of states.
§ Mr. Ernie RossTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will propose to the United Nations Security Council a draft resolution reminding all states engaged in belligerent occupation of the implications of grave breaches of the Geneva convention, with particular regard to those states' treatment of the civilian population who are under occupation.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydNo. The obligations of states party to the Fourth Geneva convention were reiterated by the Security Council in its resolution 674 with reference to the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait.