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The International Committee of the Red Cross has been informed by the Federal Political Department, Berne, that the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam, in a letter dated 31 October 1973 and received on 3 December, notified the Swiss Government of its accession to the four Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, to which it made some reservations.

In its issue of August 1970, the International Review had mentioned that 126 States were parties to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949. The ICRC has since been informed by the Federal Political Department in Berne of the accession of two more States to these Conventions. The Swiss Authorities received on 5 August the notification of accession from the Republic of Chad, and on 18 August the declaration of continuity from Mauritius, which is thus bound to the Conventions as from 12 March 1968, when it became independent.

In our last issue we mentioned that 119 states were parties to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949. The International Committee of the Red Cross was recently informed by the Federal Political Department, Berne, of Guyana's accession.

The October 1968 issue of International Review mentioned that 121 States were parties to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949.

Following the conflict which broke out on 14 July 1969 between Honduras and El Salvador, the delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross successfully intervened to arrange repatriation of prisoners of war and interned civilians detained by each of the Parties to the conflict. These operations were completed on 6 October 1969 when the last Honduran civilians detained in El Salvador were repatriated.

The Federal Political Department has just informed the International Committee of the Red Cross that the State of Kuwait, in a letter received on September 2, 1967, has announced to the Swiss Federal Council its adherence to the four Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949.

In its issue of October 1967, the International Review stated that 116 States were parties to the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949. Since then, the International Committee of the Red Cross has been informed by the Federal Political Department of the participation of two new countries to these Conventions.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has received from the Federal Political Department in Berne, the certified true copy of the instrument by which the Government of Ireland ratified the Geneva Conventions of 1949 on September 27, 1962. Such ratification will take effect from March 27, 1963.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has received from the Federal Political Department in Berne, duly certified copies of the instruments by which the Governments of Paraguay and Colombia have ratified the Geneva Conventions of 1949. These two ratifications will take effect on April 23, 1962 for Paraguay and on May 8, 1962 in the case of Colombia.

On the occasion of the coming celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Protocols additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, the editor of the International Review of the Red Cross has very kindly invited the Mexican Red Cross to prepare an article on this event, bringing out the importance of these legal instruments for the Society, the measures it has taken to promote the dissemination of the Protocols and, perhaps more important, the work done by the National Society in favour of their ratification.