At its meeting of 27 November 1987 in Rio de Janeiro, the Council of Delegates, in its resolution No. 4 entitled “Information and dissemination of international humanitarian law as a contribution to peace”, had urged the Commission on the Red Cross, the Red Crescent and Peace “to take all necessary steps to improve ways and means of making better known and understood the role of the Movement in favour of peace by pointing out the connection between disseminating international humanitarian law and the Movement's Fundamental Principles and developing a spirit of peace.”