Regional Central European seminar on the implementation of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the event of armed conflict and its first and second Protocols, Warsaw, 2-4 October 2005.

More than sixty state officials have gathered in Russia's second city to attend the third regional conference held to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1954 Hague Convention

Geneva (ICRC) – On 14 May 1954, a Convention for the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict was adopted, under the aegis of UNESCO.

Geneva/Cairo (ICRC) – "Recent events have shown how important it is to ensure the protection of cultural property in situations of armed conflict." This was the message conveyed today by Jacques Forster, vice-president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), at a seminar that the organization is hosting in Cairo together with the Egyptian National Committee on International Humanitarian Law, the Egyptian Red Crescent Society and UNESCO.