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If nothing is stipulated, intercourse (e.g., communication, movement, or commerce)remains suspended, as during actual hostilities. 194 For example, absent explicit agreement, abelligerent retains the right to control all communications or movement of members of thecivilian population between its lines and enemy lines (e.g., denying movement to reduce the riskof enemy espionage activities, denying trade to avoid strengthening enemy armed forces). 195The armistice agreement may also stipulate responsibilities of each party for civiladministration of areas under its respective control (e.g., public safety and public health needs,maintenance of public utilities including communications facilities). The armistice agreementmay also specify the responsibilities of each belligerent for civil administration of neutral areasor areas where control is shared. 19612.12.4 Humanitarian Activities to Occur During an Armistice. An armistice agreementmay arrange for a variety of humanitarian activities, such as:• search for and collection of the sick and wounded from the battlefield, by, for example,medical personnel or authorized civilians (such as non-governmental organizations); and• the provision or transport of medical care or food supplies intended for the civilianpopulation, including displaced persons.12.12.4.1 Disposition of Detainees. Because armistice agreements are generallyonly a temporary suspension of hostilities and not a complete cessation of active hostilities,POWs generally need not be repatriated upon the conclusion of an armistice agreement. 197 If itis desired that detainees, such as POWs, retained personnel, or civilian internees, should be29 of the Hague IV Regulations] to be regulated is the intercourse of the population of the occupied territory withthe population of the country still held by the enemy (in both cases nationals of the State), and also between eachbelligerent force and the inhabitants of the localities held by the other.”).194 1956 FM 27-10 (Change No. 1 1976) 487d (“If it is desired to make any change during the armistice in therelations between the opposing forces and the peaceable inhabitants, this must be accomplished by expressprovision. Otherwise these relations remain unchanged, each belligerent continuing to exercise the same rights asbefore, including the right to prevent or control all intercourse between the inhabitants within his lines and personswithin the enemy lines.”); LIEBER CODE art. 141 (“If nothing is stipulated the intercourse remains suspended, asduring actual hostilities.”).195 Refer to § 5.19.1.1 (Belligerent Authority to Exercise Control in the Immediate Vicinity of Military Operations);§ 11.4.1 (Right of the Occupying Power to Govern the Enemy Territory Temporarily).196 For example, Agreement Between the Governments of the United States of America, the Soviet Union, and theUnited Kingdom on the One Hand and the Government of Rumania on the Other Concerning an Armistice, Sept. 12,1944, 59 STAT. 1712, 1715 (“17. Rumanian civil administration is restored in the whole area of Rumania separatedby not less than 50-100 kilometres (depending upon conditions of terrain) from the front line, Rumanianadministrative bodies undertaking to carry out, in the interests of the reestablishment of peace and security,instructions and orders of the Allied (Soviet) High Command issued by them for the purpose of securing theexecution of these armistice terms.”).197 Refer to § 9.37 (Release and Repatriation After Hostilities).854