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States Parties to the Geneva Conventions (and to their Protocols) have committed themselves in Article 1 common to the four Conventions to respect and to ensure respect for these treaties.
The Geneva Conventions of 1949 as supplemented by the additional Protocols of 1977 set out principles and rules, binding on the parties to armed conflicts, designed to protect the victims of those conflicts.
The Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of the Swiss Confederation prepared the following model declaration of recognition of the competence of the Commission.