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Nigeria – Saudi Arabia – Middle East – People's Republic of South Yemen – Syria – Switzerland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1969

Extract

It is by now well known that on 1 August 1969 the ICRC submitted a plan to the authorities in Lagos and in the secessionist territory. On 15 August it received their agreement. Mr. Bignami, the ICRC President's personal representative in Lagos, kept in touch with the Nigerian Government whose reply reached Geneva somewhat later.

Type
International Committee of the Red Cross
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1969

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References

1 In last month's International Review we mentioned the meeting in Lagos on 5 08 1969 Google Scholar, convened by the Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, for discussion of ICRC relief operations in the Nigerian conflict. It was attended by representatives of the ICRC and of the main donor countries, including Great Britain.