Regional Symposium for the 30th Anniversary of the Additional Protocols of 1977 in Beijing

Welcome address by Jacques Forster, then vice-president of the ICRC. Photo: ICRC/Peter Danford
Welcome address by Jacques Forster, then vice-president of the ICRC. Photo: ICRC/Peter Danford

From 18 to 19 June 2007 the President of the IHFFC, Prof. Michael Bothe, participated and presented the IHFFC at the regional Symposium for the 30th Anniversary of the Adoption of the 1977 Protocols Additional to the Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949, which took place in Beijing and was organized jointly by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People Republic of China and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Prof. Bothe took the opportunity to have contacts with number of representatives of Asia States which are not yet members of the IHFFC.

There are fifteen members of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission.