On 15 December 2009 in Khemarin Palace, HM the King greeted professor Mey Samedi, member of the central committee of the Cambodian Red Cross, representing the Cambodian Red Cross, and leading a delegation composed of Mrs. Christine Beerli, standing vice president of the International Committee of the ICRC, of Mr. François Bougnon, president of the International Committee of Red Cross in the Kingdom, and other ICRC members. Mrs. Christine Beerli related the 30th anniversary of the ICRC and its humanitarian action in the past 30 years in the Kingdom since 1979.