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Speech given by Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the ICRC
The Geneva Conventions are the foundational treaties of international humanitarian law and a remarkable success in many ways. That’s the opening you would expect from me 75 years after their adoption on August 12, 1949. However, I want to propose a …