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There are nine major multilateral conventions related to states' responsibilities for combating terrorism.
1. Convention on offenses & certain other acts committed on board aircraft ("Tokyo Convention;" 9/63; applies to acts affecting in-flight safety)
2. Convention for the suppression of unlawful seizure of aircraft ("Hague Convention;" 12/70; applies to hijackings)
3. Convention for the suppression of unlawful acts against the safety of civil aviation ("Montreal Convention;" 9/71; applies to acts of aviation sabotage such as bombings aboard aircraft in flight)
4. Convention on the prevention and punishment of crimes against internationally protected persons (12/73; protects senior government officials and diplomats)
5. Convention on the physical protection of nuclear material (10/79; combats unlawful taking and use of nuclear material)
6. International Convention against the taking of hostages (12/79)
7. Protocol for the suppression of unlawful acts of violence at airports serving international civil aviation (2/88; extends and supplements Montreal Convention)
8. Protocol for the suppression of unlawful acts against the safety of Maritime Navigation, with related protocol (3/88; applies to terrorist attacks on ships and on fixed offshore platforms)
9. Convention on the marking of plastic explosives for the purpose
of identification (provides for chemical marking to facilitate
detention of plastic explosives, e.g. to combat aircraft sabotage;
3/91)
(The United States is a party to all of these.)
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