Handbook of the international red cross and red crescent movement

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The High Contracting Parties have agreed to communicate the
present Convention with an invitation to accede thereto to Governments unable to
appoint Plenipotentiaries to the International Conference at Geneva. The Protocol
has accordingly been left open.
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The present Convention shall be ratified and the ratifications
exchanged at Berne, within the next four months, or sooner if possible.
In faith whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the Convention
and thereto affixed their seals.
Done at Geneva, this twenty-second day of August, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-four.
Statutory bodies of the International 
Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
The statutory bodies of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent
Movement are:
1. The International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent
The International Conference brings together delegations of:
- the National Societies;
- the ICRC;
- the Federation;
- the States party to the Geneva Conventions.
Each delegation has one vote.
The Conference normally meets every four years.
2. The Council of Delegates of the International Red Cross and
Red Crescent Movement
The Council of Delegates is composed of delegations of:
- the National Societies;
- the ICRC;
- the Federation.
Therefore, the Council of Delegates is the assembly of the Movement’s
components.
It meets on the occasion of every International Conference and usually
also on the occasion of every General Assembly of the Federation.
3. The Standing Commission of the Red Cross and Red Crescent
The Standing Commission comprises nine members:
- five members elected by the International Conference of the Red
Cross and Red Crescent;
- two representatives of the ICRC, one of whom is the President;
- two representatives of the Federation, one of whom is the
President.
It usually meets every six months.

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