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“We certainly would not be involved in amending the Convention,” said Richardson.
The Geneva Convention is the treaty that dictates the rights of individuals in times of war and laws governing warfare.
“The war on terror is a new situation…. It’s less a question of holes in the convention, but of disagreement of how the convention’s applied to this situation,” Richardson said. “Opinions on that...
Although the agenda for the meeting is not yet set, Richardson said she expects discussion to range from how to apply the stipulations of the Geneva Convention to distinguishing between civilians and military personnel to the definition of an appropriate objective of war—many of which are issues...
Richardson emphasized that the meeting would deal with interpretation—not with changing actual wording of the Geneva Convention rules.