The ICRC kept in close touch with the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in San Remo, Italy, and, as in previous years, helped in the preparation and running of several courses and seminars organized by the Institute. Thus, it was closely involved in the 15th Round Table on current problems of international humanitarian law (4–8 September 1990) which brought together over 150 people representing governments, the academic world, international organizations and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The meeting examined specific means of improving respect for international humanitarian law and discussed topics such as:

the contents and scope of the obligation to ensure respect for the law (Article 1 common to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Protocol I of 1977);

the role of the future International Fact-Finding Commission (Article 90 of Protocol I);

the usefulness of a system of periodic reports on the application of international humanitarian law;

the role of the United Nations in implementing that body of law.