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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Yves Sandoz
Yves Sandoz*
Affiliation:
Director for Principles, Law and Relations with the Movement
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Eight hundred and fifteen delegates from 160 States, 39 Ministers, 20 Deputy Ministers and 12 Secretaries of State, the United Nations Secretary-General, the High Commissioner for Refugees and the Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement represented by the Presidents of the ICRC and the Federation and the Chairman of the Standing Commission, and all the major governmental and non-governmental organizations active in the sphere of armed conflictthe Swiss government succeeded within the space of a few months in arranging for all these to come together in Geneva for a three-day meeting to discuss the protection of war victims and adopt a substantive declaration on the issue. The International Conference for the Protection of War Victims was undeniably a success.

Type
International Conference for the Protection of War Victims
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 33 , Special Issue 296: International Conference for the Protection of War Victims , October 1993 , pp. 355 - 358
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1993

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