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agreement of the parties be set aside for the site of the negotiations. 76 The belligerents mayagree that no combat activity will take place within or over the area, and that forces will bedetailed to maintain the security of the area. 77 The area designated as neutral on mapsinterchanged by representatives of the belligerents may be marked with searchlights, balloons,and other devices to ensure that it will not be attacked. 78Other appropriate measures may also be agreed upon to facilitate negotiations. Forexample, special signals that the parlementaire’s party should give or routes that theparlementaire’s party must take may be agreed upon to help identify the parlementaire’s party tothe opposing forces.12.6 MILITARY PASSPORTS, SAFE-CONDUCTS, AND SAFEGUARDSPersons within an area occupied by a belligerent may be protected from molestation orinterference through military passports, safe-conducts, and safeguards. These devices are amatter of international law only when granted or posted by arrangement with the enemy or with aneutral State. 7912.6.1 Military Passports, Safe-Conducts, and Safeguards – Notes on Terminology. Theterms pass or permit may be used instead of passport. Pass has sometimes been used for ageneral permission to do certain things, while permit has sometimes been used like safe-conduct,to signify permission to do a particular thing. 8076 1956 FM 27-10 (Change No. 1 1976) 468 (“If it is anticipated that negotiations between belligerents may beprolonged, a neutralized area may by agreement of the parties be set aside for the site of the negotiations.”). Forexample, Howard S. Levie, How it All Started – and How it Ended: A Legal Study of the Korean War, 35 AKRONLAW REVIEW 205, 223 (2002) (“Negotiations for an armistice began at Kaesong on July 10, 1951. Shortlythereafter, the negotiations were moved to Panmunjom at the insistence of the UNC because Kaesong, which hadbeen between the two lines at the time of the negotiations of the liaison officers, had been occupied by theCommunists and they presumed to dictate who could enter the area, while Panmunjom was located in a zonebetween territories occupied by the two sides. It was declared a neutral zone as were Kaesong (the CommunistArmistice Delegation headquarters), Munsan-ni (the UNC Armistice Delegation headquarters), and the roadsleading from each Delegation headquarters to Panmunjom.”).77 1956 FM 27-10 (Change No. 1 1976) 468 (“The belligerents may agree that no combat activity will take placewithin or over the area and that forces will be detailed to maintain the security of the area.”).78 1956 FM 27-10 (Change No. 1 1976) 468 (“The area designated as neutral on maps interchanged byrepresentatives of the belligerents may be marked with searchlights, balloons, and other devices to insure that it willnot be attacked.”).79 1956 FM 27-10 (Change No. 1 1976) 454 (“Persons within an area occupied by a belligerent may be protectedfrom molestation or interference through military passports, safe-conducts, and safeguards. These devices are amatter of international law only when granted or posted by arrangement with the enemy.”); 1958 UK MANUAL 495(“Safeguards, like passports and safe-conducts, fall within the scope of international law only when posted byarrangement with the enemy.”).80 1958 UK MANUAL 490 (“The expressions ‘pass’ and ‘permit’ have in recent years been employed in the place ofthe older terms ‘passport’ and ‘safe-conduct,’ with, as a rule, the same distinction, although ‘pass’ has sometimesmeant a general permission to do certain things, while ‘permit’ has been confined to permission to do a particularact.”).834