IRRC No. 280

Observer status for the International Committee of the Red Cross at the United Nations — A legal viewpoint

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Abstract
In many respects, observer status for the ICRC will place the practical co-operation that already existed between the institution and the United Nations on a stronger legal basis. It will also spare the ICRC the considerable drain on its resources that was necessary, when it had only consultative status, to bring its pragmatic inter arma caritas proposals before the United Nations.

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