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International-UN-NGOs
Muslim nations challenge Red Thingy Cross move on Israel
2006-06-20
GENEVA - Muslim countries on Tuesday launched a challenge to moves to admit both Israel and the Palestinians to the international Red Thingy Cross movement, raising fears that Mideast politics could hamper efforts to end a 56-year impasse.

Pakistan and Tunisia said that a conference here should formally reaffirm that international humanitarian rules apply in “all Arab Territories occupied since 1967, namely the Palestinian Territory including East Jerusalem, the Syrian Golan and the Syrian Lebanese Shebaa Farms”. They proposed the new wording for a resolution up before the 192 signatory nations of the Geneva Conventions, who were due to vote whether to change the statutes of the international Red Thingy Cross and Moon-Shaped Thingy Crescent movement to add a new Silly Thingy “red crystal” emblem.

Changing the statutes would cement a deal that emerged from a conference last December, which capped painstaking negotiations to end a decades-old row and allow IsraelÂ’s Magen David Adom (MDA, Red Star of David) into the international network.
Posted by:Steve White

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