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States party to the most important international humanitarian law treaties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

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Follow-up to the International Conference for the Protection of War Victims
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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 34 , Issue 302 , October 1994 , pp. 458 - 463
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1994

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* State party to the 1929 Geneva Conventions.

—On 21 June 1989, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs received a letter from the Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations Office at Geneva informing the Swiss Federal Council “that the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, entrusted with the functions of the Government of the State of Palestine by decision of the Palestine National Council, decided, on 4 May 1989, to adhere to the Four Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and the two Protocols additional thereto”.

On 13 September 1989, the Swiss Federal Council informed the States that it was not in a position to decide whether the letter constituted an instrument of accession, “due to the uncertainty within the international community as to the existence or nonexistence of a State of Palestine”.