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| | ABC News: New Red Cross Emblem Paves Way for Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | Swiss ambassador at large, Didier Phirte, center, gestures as he announces that the international conference approves a new "red crystal" emblem, paving the way for Israel to join the Red Cross movement in Geneva, Switzerland, early morning Thursday, Dec 8, 2005. |
 | | By ALEXANDER G. GENEVA Dec 7, 2005 (AP) Delegates to an international conference accepted a new Red Cross emblem Thursday despite Syrian objections, paving the way for Israel to join the humanitarian movement after nearly six decades of exclusion. |
 | | The 192 signatories of the Geneva Conventions approved the new "red crystal" emblem by vote after last-ditch negotiations between Israel and Syria over Damascus' demands for humanitarian access to Syrian citizens in the Golan Heights broke down. |
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