The second session of the Conference of Government Experts on the Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law Applicable in Armed Conflicts, convened by the ICRC, began in Geneva last May and terminated on 2 June. We give below a brief analysis of the results of the four commissions assigned, as mentioned in our previous issue, to the study of the content of the two draft additional Protocols to the 1949 Geneva Conventions. In a subsequent issue we shall refer to the final report on the work of the Conference, which the ICRC is now preparing and will shortly publish.