Ms. Pellandini (Observer for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)) said that the universal acceptance recently achieved by the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 was a powerful counter-argument to those who claimed that international humanitarian law was inadequate to deal with contemporary armed conflict situations.
Mme Pellandini (Observateur du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR)) dit que l'adhésion universelle récemment acquise par les quatre Conventions de Genève de 1949 est un argument puissant contre ceux qui font valoir que le droit international humanitaire est inadéquat face aux situations de conflits armés contemporaines.