PAGE 01 ACTION EUR-12 INCOMING TELEGRAM ' CO NFIDENT IAL Departnient of ·State USNATO 06548 1888 0112182 I NFO IS0-00 OLOS-09 CIAE-00 PM-05 INR-10 OCT-01 I0-13 L-03 ACOA-12 NSAE-00 PA-01 SS-15 SP-02 ICA-11 TRSE-00 094 w ---- -- -- -- --------129792 0112272 12 P 0112062 JUL 78 FM USMISSION USNATO TO SECSTATE WASHOC PRIORITY 2637 SE COEF WASHDC PRIORITY INF O USMISSION GENEVA US MI S SION USUN NEW YORK CO N F IO ENT I AL USNATO 06548 E O 11652 XGOS - 1 TAGS NATO PARM S UBJECT ug EXPERI MEfTING$ QN HUMANITARIAN INTERNATIONAL LAW IN ARMED CONFLICT - it EF ST ATE 147389 OTG 0921542 JUN 78 I NATO LEGAL POLITICAL EXPERTS MEETING 28-29 JUNE CONSIDERED NATIONAL POSITIONS ON AL LIED INTERPRETATIONS OF PROTOCOLS I ANO I I TO THE 1949 GENEVA CONVENTIONS ALL P ARTICIPANTS ENDORSED THE INTERPRETATIONS FOUND TO BE NE CESSARY IN NATO MILITARY COMMITTEE STUDY INCLUDING UNDE RSTANDING THAT RULES OF THE PROTOCOL DO NOT AFFECT OR REGULATE OR PROHIBIT THE USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS THf RE WAS HOWEVER NO UNIFORMITY AS TO THE FORM FOR MAK I NG THESE INTERPRETATIONS WHILE UK IS CONSIDERING EXP RESSING MANY AS DECL ARAT IONS IN ITS INSTRUMENT OF RAT IFICATI ON US REITERATED POSITIONS EXPRE SSED I N REFTEL THAT IT INTENDS TO MAKE RELATIVELY FE W FOR MAL D CLARATIONS BUT INCLUDE OTHERS IN THE ANALYSIS THAT WILL ACCOMPANY THE PROTOCOLS TO THE SENATE NORWAY EXPECTS TO MAKE NO FORMAL DECLARATIONS AT RATIFIC ATIO BUT WILL MA KE FULL EXPLANATORY STATE MENT TO ITS P ARLIAMENT FRG FOREIGN AN D DEFENSE MINISTRIES HA E OT YET RECONCILED DIFFERENCES AND THUS NO OFFICI AL FRG POSITION WAS OFFERED 2 ONLY COUNTRY THAT INDICATED IT PROB ABLY WOULD OT MAKE NUCLEAR UNDERSTANDING AS A FORMAL OECLAR TIO ACCOMPANYING INSTRUMENT OF RATIFICATION WAS O WA CANADA INDIC ATED CONTINUING CONCERN WITH TE TS USED BY US AND UK FRANCE REITERATED THAT IT 1 0ULO NOT BECO E A P ARTY TO THE PROTOCOLS US UK AND FRG REIT ER TEO IMP ORTANCE THEY ATTACH TO HAVING ALL NATO ALL IES WITH NUCLEAR DELIVERY SYSTEMS ON THEIR TERRITORIES MAKE SUCH A DECLARATION 3 IT WAS TENTATIVELY AGREED TO HOLD FOLLOW-UP CONSUL TATIVE MEETING IN MIO TO LATE OCTOBER THE PRECISE OATE S TO BE FIXED BY THE POLITICAL CO MITTEE THIS TIMING SEEMS ' NECESSARY AS NORWAY INDICATED THAT IT PLANS TO MOVE P ROTOCOLS FORWARD FOR RATIFICATION BY THE ENO OF THE YEAR ANO US SAID IT HOPES TO HAVE THEM RE ADY TO SUBMIT TO THE SENATE BY EARLY 1979 OCTOBER MEETING WILL HAVE TO CONSIDER INTER ALIA COORDINATED ALLIANCE POSITION ON RESERVATION OF RIGHTS OF REPRISAL IN THE EVENT OF MASSIVE AND CONTINUING ATTACKS ON THE CIVILIAN POPULATION ONLY NORWAY HAS MADE A FINAL DECISION CNEGATIVEI ON THIS QUESTION GLITMAN DECLASSIFIED CO NFIDENT IAL Authority -JtJ1 lDLoJJ ' i