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Burkina Faso
Practice Relating to Rule 141. Legal Advisers for Armed Forces
VI. Other National Practice
In 1999, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Burkina Faso and the ICRC, in cooperation with the Burkinabé Red Cross Society, held the first national seminar on implementation of IHL. The seminar, inter alia, urged Burkina Faso to appoint legal advisers to the armed forces. 
ICRC, Advisory Service, 1999 Annual Report, Geneva, 2000, p. 16.
At the 27th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in 1999, Burkina Faso pledged to “appoint legal advisers in the armed forces”. 
Burkina Faso, Pledge made at the 27th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Geneva, 31 October–6 November 1999.