IRRC No. 67
The principles of international humanitarian law (II)
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Abstract
Alongside the rules which constitute the enacting clauses of the international Conventions and which, in precise terms, set forth the contractual obligations of States, there exist principles from which these rules derive. “Certain ideas formulated with deliberate imprecision occupy a privileged position in treaties which describe them as being creative elements of law”.