0031-0330 irl.qxd 2.3.2009 14:20 Page 133 PRISONERS OF WAR 133 PART IV TERMINATION OF CAPTIVITY SECTION I DIRECT REPATRIATION AND ACCOMMODATION IN NEUTRAL COUNTRIES ART. 109. — Subject to the provisions of the third paragraph of this Article, Parties to the conflict are bound to send back to their own country, regardless of number or rank, seriously wounded and seriously sick prisoners of war, after having cared for them until they are fit to travel, in accordance with the first paragraph of the following Article. Throughout the duration of hostilities, Parties to the conflict shall endeavour, with the co-operation of the neutral Powers concerned, to make arrangements for the accommodation in neutral countries of the sick and wounded prisoners of war referred to in the second paragraph of the following Article. They may, in addition, conclude agreements with a view to the direct repatriation or internment in a neutral country of ablebodied prisoners of war who have undergone a long period of captivity. No sick or injured prisoner of war who is eligible for repatriation under the first paragraph of this Article, may be repatriated against his will during hostilities. ART. 110. — The following shall be repatriated direct; 1) Incurably wounded and sick whose mental or physical fitness seems to have been gravely diminished. 2) Wounded and sick who, according to medical opinion, are not likely to recover within one year, whose condition requires treatment and whose mental or physical fitness seems to have been gravely diminished. 3) Wounded and sick who have recovered, but whose mental or physical fitness seems to have gravely and permanently diminished. General observations Cases of repatriation and accommodation