Protocol III to the 1949 Geneva Convention and an amendment and protocol to 1980 Conventional Weapons Convention : message from the President of the United States transmitting the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the adoption of an additional distinctive emblem (the "Geneva Protocol III"), adopted at Geneva on December 8, 2005, and signed by the United States on that date, the amendment to Article I of the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects (the "CCW Amendment"), and the CCW Protocol Explosive Remnants of War (the "CCW Protocol V")