In our June issue we published the text of a cicrular, dated 17 May 1974, relative to the Conference of Government Experts which will meet in Lucerne from 24 September to 18 October 1974. On 13 August, the ICRC sent the following second circular containing further information to all governments which had been invited to take part in the recent Diplomatic Conference on the reaffirmation and development of international humanitarian law applicable in armed conflicts.

Last month International Review gave a summary of the work being carried out in Cyprus by the Red Cross since the outbreak of hostilities, in order to provide protection and relief to the civilian population and prisoners, seek the missing and forward messages. As that account went only so far as the end of July, we continue here in chronological order the ICRC's action since the beginning of August, starting with the first fortnight which ended with the renewed flare-up of fighting.

On 31 July an ICRC delegate and a doctor-delegate visited, on the Ilha das Galinhas, 33 members of the PAIGC (African Party for the Independance of Guinea and Cape Verde) to whom the Portuguese Government had granted prisoner-of-war status. The following day, the delegates went to see a sick prisoner being treated at the hospital in Bissau.

In 1965, we announced Mr. Jean Pictet's appointment as reader in international humanitarian law, and added that the University of Geneva was one of the first seats of higher learning to include that subject in its programme.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has issued its Annual Report for 1973, in which it describes the work accomplished by its delegates in the field and its efforts in the sphere of international humanitarian law. The Report also contains an outline of the ICRC's financial situation.

The Statement of Income and Expenditure for 1973 (Table II) shows an excess of income over expenditure, indicating that for the third successive year the balance between the expenses and receipts of the ICRC's permanent structure has been maintained.