While the general principle of applicability of treaties based on reciprocity is relevant in international humanitarian law, there is no reciprocity in respect for treaties.

 OUTLINE

Chapter 2, III. 5. b) State – State: International Humanitarian Law in the law of treaties

Chapter 13, IX. 2. c) applicability of the general rules on State responsibility dd) but no reciprocity

 LEGAL SOURCE

common 2/3 (see ICRC updated Commentary)

PI, 96/2

CIHL, 140

 DOCUMENT

ICRC Appeals on the Near East (Part B.)

 CASES

International Law Commission, Articles on State Responsibility (Part A., Arts 49-51)

Sweden, Report of the Swedish International Humanitarian Law Committee (Part. 3.3)

United States Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, The Ministries Case

Eritrea/Ethiopia, Partial Award on POWs (Part B., Paras. 148-163)

ICTY, Prosecutor v. Martic (Part A., Para. 9)

ICTY, The Prosecutor v. Kupreskic et al. (Paras. 517-520)

Colombia, Constitutional Conformity of Protocol II (Para. 9)

Germany, Government Reply on the Kurdistan Conflict

 BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESOURCES

PREUX Jean de, “The Geneva Conventions and Reciprocity”, in IRRC, No. 244, January 1985, pp. 25-29.   MEYROWITZ Henri, “Die Repressalienverbote des I. Zusatzprotokolls zu den Genfer Abkommen vom 12. August 1949 und das Reziprozitätsprinzip”, in Neue Zeitschrift für Wehrrecht, 1986, pp. 177-193.