December 8, 2015

132nd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent

The Holy See Delegation shares the concern expressed in the conceptual document for this Conference, that “[w]e is confronted today with a hugely complex humanitarian operating environment.” The current series of never-ending conflicts is bringing about increasingly difficult and tragic consequences. In a way, we face “a true world war fought piecemeal”, which affects numerous areas in our world in different forms and to varying degrees of intensity.
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