UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., Dec. 16—India and Pakistan are being pressed by the International Red Cross to give assurances that they will observe the Geneva conventions.

Both countries have ratified the series of conventions completed in 1949. It is known that approaches also have been made to the representatives of the regime proclaimed by the East Pakistani insurgents to abide by the conventions.

Under the terms of the convention on war prisoners, the International Committee of the Red Cross, an all‐Swiss organization with headquarters in Geneva, would be given authority to inspect war camps, to assist in the exchange of messages between the prisoners and their families and to facilitate the repatriation of the seriously wounded.