Petersburg Declaration

Württemberg was a party to the St Petersburg Declaration of 1868.

The Saint Petersburg Declaration may refer to:

The Saint Petersburg Declaration of 1868 prohibits the use of certain explosive rifle projectiles.

The St. Petersburg Declaration of 1868 prohibited the use of explosive projectiles weighing less than 400 grams.

Saint Petersburg Declaration of 1868 at International Committee of the Red Cross website.

Saint Petersburg Declaration (disambiguation)

Very few nations were parties to the St. Petersburg Declaration, however, and that declaration does not govern the conduct of non-signator parties.

The Saint Petersburg Declaration says that "the only legitimate object which States should endeavour to accomplish during war is to weaken the military forces of the enemy."

He is a signatory of the St. Petersburg Declaration and has authored numerous books and written widely-cited articles on politics, religion, literature and the Arab world.

Mr Tindemans has also very tellingly stressed the tasks referred to in the 'Petersburg Declaration', which Finland and Sweden seized on in their proposal.

Under the St. Petersburg Declaration of 1868 the "military or naval" use of explosive or incendiary projectiles with a mass of under 400 grams is forbidden.

It agreed to the Saint Petersburg Declaration on Forest Law Enforcement and Governance in Europe and North Asia.

The first is the 1868 St Petersburg Declaration, which was indeed the first major international agreement prohibiting the use of a particular weapon in warfare - namely the explosive bullet.

The conference issued the St. Petersburg Declaration, a statement of principles endorsed by Mithal al-Alusi, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and Shahriar Kabir among others.

The dum dum bullet was banned by the Hague Convention of 1899 under rules that prohibited explosive bullets that had been taken over from the St. Petersburg Declaration of 1868.

St. Petersburg Declaration of 1868 (Declaration Renouncing the Use, in Time of War, of Explosive Projectiles Under 400 Grammes Weight)

The British Royal Flying Corps forbade the use of incendiary rounds for air-to-air combat with another airplane, as their use against personnel was at first considered to be a violation of the St. Petersburg Declaration.

Further, the Hague treaties of 1899 and 1907 - which superseded the St. Petersburg Declaration, and were signed by a far wider circle of nations - do permit the use of such ammunition for auto-cannons and heavy machine guns.

The text, known as the St. Petersburg Declaration, expressed support for the separation of mosque and state, equal protection for all religions, legal and social equality between men and women, and unrestricted critical study of traditional practices in Islam.

The gun fired a solid steel bullet with hardened tip and brass jacket: under the terms of the St. Petersburg Declaration of 1868, exploding shells weighing less than 400 grams were not allowed to be used in warfare between the signatory nations.

We regret Russia's withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), but we recall that the principles of the ECT were affirmed under Russia's presidency of the G8, for instance, in the St Petersburg Declaration.

At best, the ICRC's position can be applied to only a small group of nations that were parties to the St. Petersburg Declaration; at worst, the ICRC's position is made moot by more than 100 years of subsequent international treaties.

This is often incorrectly believed to be prohibited in the Geneva Conventions, but it significantly predates those conventions, and is in fact a continuance of the St. Petersburg Declaration of 1868, which banned exploding projectiles of less than 400 grams, as well as weapons designed to aggravate injured soldiers or make their death inevitable.