Public opinion had by then turned against the use of such weapons which led to the Geneva Protocol, an updated and extensive prohibition of poison weapons.
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With the assistance of the Soviets, the American were able to get the Cubans, Angolans and South Africans to sign the Geneva Protocol on 5 August 1988.
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The Geneva Protocol has lasted longer and been more successful at being respected, but still nations have violated it at will when they have felt the need.
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The result was a treaty which did not contain the automatic mechanisms of the failed 1924 Geneva Protocol, and which was considered an unambitious substitute in comparison.
45.
On 5 August, the three parties signed the " Geneva Protocol " laying out South African withdrawal from Angola starting 10 August and to be completed 1 September.
46.
Weapons prohibited by the Geneva Protocol were of specific interest to Japan, since it was thought that if a weapon was banned then it must be particularly effective.
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In 1975 the U . S . ratified both the 1925 Geneva Protocol and the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention ( BWC ) international treaties outlawing biological warfare.
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Japan's biological weapons program was born in the 1930s, in part because Japanese officials were impressed that germ warfare had been banned by the Geneva Protocol of 1925.
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-- 1925 : The Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare is signed.
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The Council reminded Iraq of its obligations under the Geneva Protocol and to unconditionally remove and destroy all biological weapons and ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150km.
