The State of Kuwait deposited with the Swiss Government, on 17 January 1985, an instrument of accession to the Additional Protocols I and II of 8 June 1977.

Pursuant to their provisions, the Protocols will enter into force for the State of Kuwait on 17 July 1985, six months after the deposit of the instrument of accession.

Kuwait is the 49th State to become party to Protocol I and the 42nd to Protocol II.

The Republic of Vanuatu deposited with the Swiss Government, on 28 February 1985, an instrument of accession to the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, relating to the protection of victims of international armed conflicts (Protocol I) and non-international armed conflicts (Protocol II), adopted in Geneva on 8 June 1977.

Pursuant to their provisions, the Protocols will enter into force for the Republic of Vanuatu on 28 August 1985.

This is the 50th State to become party to Protocol I and the 43rd to Protocol II.

Mr. Jean-Marc Bornet, ICRC delegate general for Africa, went on mission to Ethiopia from 30 October to 11 November. From Addis Ababa, the delegate general visited various places in North Wollo, Tigre and Eritrea. These regions, where conflicts are taking place, are the ones most affected by drought and the ICRC is the only international humanitarian organization actively involved in distributing relief supplies.

The donation made in 1982 by Mr Paul Reuter, Honorary Professor for law, economics and social sciences of Paris University, member and former president of the U.N. Commission for International Law, enabled the ICRC to establish the Paul Reuter Fund. The revenue from the fund is to be used for the promotion of knowledge and understanding of international humanitarian law and for the award of a prize of 2000 Swiss francs every other year to reward a particularly deserving work in that field.

Dr. Athos Gallino, member of the ICRC, accompanied by Dr. Rémi Russbach, chief medical officer of the ICRC, went on mission from 20 January to 3 February, first to Mozambique and then to Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Sudan. As head of the “Special Fund for the Disabled”, created by the ICRC in 1983, — Dr. Gallino visited the centres for care of war amputees and paraplegics which have been set up in these countries by the ICRC with the support of local authorities and National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. The ICRC representatives went to Maputo (Mozambique), Bulawayo (Zimbabwe), Debre Zeit and Asmara (Ethiopia) and Kassala (Sudan).

Dr. Gallino and Dr. Russbach also visited the ICRC feeding centres in Axum and Mekele (Ethiopia).