caa a22 4500 388041994 CHVBK 20180307125025.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199806 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020860400090951 doi S0020860400090951 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020860400090951 Blondel Jean-Luc Cooperation between National Societies and the International Committee of the Red Cross: an essential and demanding partnership [Elektronische Daten] [Jean-Luc Blondel] The ICRC has always maintained contacts, often close ones, with the National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. According to Article 3 of the Statutes of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, "the National Societies form the basic units and constitute a vital force of the Movement”. In this sense, the ICRC regards them as special partners in the conduct of its humanitarian activities, as it recently re-emphasized in its strategic study on the organization's future, which it shared with all the National Societies in a letter dated 16 December 1997: "As a member of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement — of which it is the founder — the ICRC works to ensure respect for the Fundamental Principles and cooperates primarily with the National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and their Federation” (emphasis added). Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1998 International Review of the Red Cross Cambridge University Press 38/323(1998-06), 197-204 0020-8604 38:323<197 1998 38 RCE https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020860400090951 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020860400090951 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Blondel Jean-Luc NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Review of the Red Cross Cambridge University Press 38/323(1998-06), 197-204 0020-8604 38:323<197 1998 38 RCE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge