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Seminar on the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law: Sofia, 20-22 September 1990

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 31 , Issue 281 , April 1991 , pp. 223 - 233
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1991

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References

1 See p. 134, “National measures to implement international humanitarian law Steps taken by the ICRC”.

2 See p. 140, Dieter Fleck: “Implementing International Humanitarian Law: Problems and Priorities”.

3 See p. 154, Marc Offermans: “The Belgian Inter-Departmental Commission for Humanitarian Law— the International Humanitarian Law Committee — to study and present proposals for the interpretation and application of the rules of international humanitarian law governing war, neutrality and occupation, and also to disseminate information on and promote teaching of these rules.

The Committee's comments and proposals were submitted to the Minister of Defence in 1984 in a report entitled “International Law in Armed Conflict”.

In the late 1980s, on the basis if this report, the Swedish government drew up orders and directives for the military and civil authorities whithin Sweden's Total Defence System. In 1990 the government issued an ordinance — The Total Defence Ordinance relating to International Humanitarian Law — containing a summary of its views and related directives for the Swedish authorities concerned. The authorities are now adopting measures for the implementation of international humanitarian law.

In January 1991 the Swedish Ministry of Defence published a booklet entitled “International Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflict with reference to the Swedish Total Defence System”.

This booklet is a compilation of the most important sections of the report of the International Humanitarian Law Committee and of the government's related decisions addressed to the Swedish authorities concerned.