Following the elections in March, the cease-fire agreement of April 1990 and the subsequent end of the conflict in Nicaragua, the situation in the country no longer came under the ICRC's mandate. For this reason, the network of ICRC sub-delegations and offices, which was set up over the years to offer protection and assistance to the direct and indirect victims of the conflict, was dismantled in the course of the year and the delegation's expatriate staff was reduced from 20 to 8 by December.