Are the Geneva Conventions of 1949, which relate to international conflicts, also applicable in the case of an “armed conflict not of an international character”?

We have the honour to inform you that the International Committee of the Red Cross gave official recognition on September 14, 1967, to the Red Cross of Mali.

The ICRC's humanitarian activity continued in September 1967 in widely varying fields, as can be seen from the following news report.

Repatriation of Jordanian Refugees.—By August 31, 14,008 Jordanians had been repatriated. Some 7,000 whose applications to return were accepted but who were unable to reach the western bank of the Jordan before expiry of the time-limit are the subject of ICRC discussions with both governments with a view to their crossing the river as soon as possible.

The Neutral Commission of Experts appointed by the International Committee to examine the cases of victims of pseudomedical experiments in concentration camps under the Nazi regime, to whom the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany is prepared to pay indemnity, again met at ICRC headquarters on September 15 and 16. The meeting was chaired by Mr. William Lenoir, a judge of the Geneva Court of Justice, and was attended by Dr. Alex Muller, Professor at the Geneva University Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Sylvain Mutrux, Assistant Medical Director of the Bel-Air psychiatric clinic, Mrs. Böde, Dr. Bàcs and Mr. Pàsztor, representing the Hungarian Red Cross and Dr. Götz, representing the Red Cross in the Federal Republic of Germany.

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.