On 2 November, the new President of the League of Red Cross Societies, Mr. J.A. Adefarasin, was received by the ICRC Assembly at its headquarters in Geneva. He was welcomed by Mr. Alexander Hay, President of the ICRC, who extended the good wishes and congratulations of the ICRC on the important new office to which he was recently elected in Bucharest by the International Conference of the Red Cross.