I just have what may seem to be an obvious point.
I appreciate, Lieutenant-Colonel, your point that it isn't precluded by the convention. But in the context of international negotiations, any global convention has the aim of having every party, every country around the world, ratify it. To be a fully global, effective convention every government should become a party. In that context, a convention wouldn't anticipate the behaviour of non-parties generally because the hope is that every government will ratify and therefore this is closing a loophole by saying that in a period of time let's hope that all governments will ratify this convention. Then I wouldn't need this particular provision to the prohibitions list. But in a period of time where we know that some rather large players are not ratifying, this would be one way of improving the ambit of the convention. I think the fact that it wasn't anticipated in the convention language, with all due respect, is not a strong argument, because one would hope that every government would eventually ratify.