Wishing to associate the National Societies and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies with the follow-up to the International Conference for the Protection of War Victims (August-September 1993) and with preparations for the meeting of the Intergovernmental Group of Experts to be held in January 1995, the ICRC convened a consultative meeting in Geneva on 12 and 13 September 1994 to which legal advisers and experts in humanitarian law from several National Societies and from the Federation were invited. This meeting was also in line with Resolution 2 of the October 1993 Council of Delegates, which urgently requested “the National Societies, the ICRC and the Federation to do everything possible, through their own action and by mobilizing governments, to ensure that the Final Declaration of the International Conference for the Protection of War Victims is followed up by tangible steps which lead to a substantial improvement in the situation of the victims…”.