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Implementation and Dissemination of the Geneva Conventions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2010
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In 1957, at the time of the XIXth International Conference of the Red Cross (New Delhi), 69 States were parties to the Geneva Conventions of 12th August 1949, which they had ratified or to which they had acceded. On December 31st 1964, 100 States were formally bound by these Conventions, 87 following ratification or accession and 13 by a formal declaration of continuity (in respect of ratification by the sovereign Power of their territory prior to independence). Other recently independent States can be considered as bound for the same reason, even if they have not addressed a declaration of continuity to the Swiss Federal Council, which is responsible for the Conventions. It is none the less desirable that they should make this declaration or, if they prefer, deposit new instruments of accession in due form.
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- International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 5 , Issue 50 , May 1965 , pp. 227 - 242
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- Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1965
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Report to be submitted by the International Committee of the Red Cross to the XXth International Conference of the Red Cross, Vienna, 1965.
References
page 230 note 1 See International Review, 04 1965.Google Scholar
page 233 note 1 The International Review announced in its February 1965 number that the Geneva State Council appointed Mr. Jean Pictet, Director for General Affairs of the ICRC, to be in charge of courses in humanitarian Law.
page 237 note 1 All the measures in A. and B. should be taken already in peacetime.
page 240 note 1 All the measures Listed in IV should be taken, or at least provided for, in time of peace, so that they may be put into force on the outbreak of hostilities.