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dated October 31, 1957: Red Cross conference

Delegates from several Communist countries – the Soviet Union, China, Poland, Bulgaria, Rumania, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia – urged prohibition of the use of nuclear weapons in any future war when the Humanitarian Law Commission of the International Red Cross met in New Delhi on October 29 to discuss draft rules for the protection of civilian population during wars. The Chinese Ambassador in India, Mr. Pan Tzu-li, who spoke for China, urged that the draft rules be amended and expanded to specifically include a rule that “nuclear, chemical, bacteriological and all other weapons of mass destruction” should be banned so as to ensure protection not only for the civilian population but for the whole of humanity in the event of any conflict.

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