Mr. Speaker, Mr. Rumsfeld said clearly last week that they will respect the Geneva conventions. Of course there will be a determination done under the Geneva conventions to determine if they are prisoners of war or not. If they are not and if they are terrorists, they will be treated according to international law as criminals and not as prisoners of war. The determination has to be done by the people who have custody of the prisoners. In this case, they are the Americans.
In the House of Commons on February 6th, 2002. See this statement in context.