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(1.) (ESCAP/LIB/Manual/2/Rev. 2); (2.) Secretariat supplement. - (ESCAP/LIB/Manual/2/ Suppl./Rev. 1)

The Council of Delegates is the statutory body of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (International Red Cross) composed of delegates of National Societies, delegates of the International Committee (ICRC) and delegates of the League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. It met in Geneva on 25 October 1985 at the headquarters of the International Labour Office (ILO).

On 8 September, a monument to Dr. Marcel Junod, an ICRC delegate, was unveiled at Hiroshima. The monument, a cross of granite with a medallion of Dr. Junod, was sponsored by a Hiroshima committee of the Medical Association, the Chamber of Commerce, the local branch of the Japanese Red Cross and other institutions. The ICRC was represented at the ceremony by its honorary delegate in Japan, Mr. A. Michaud.

The ICRC organized its first " training course for delegates " in Geneva from 11 to 14 May.The theory lessons (humanitarian law, Geneva Conventions) and practical lessons (delegates' activities on mission), which were introduced by various ICRC collaborators, the Swiss Red Cross and medical experts, were prepared in close collaboration with the Henry Dunant Institute. During the seminar, Professor O. Reverdin gave a lecture on the subject " Switzerland and the concept of neutrality ".