CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

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Proposal for Resolution No 67 /XII

The Portuguese Republic is part of the I, II, III and IV Conventions of Geneva, of August 12

of 1949, since September 14, 1961.

Since November 27, 1992 the Portuguese Republic is also part of the I and II

Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949, adopted in 8

of June 1977.

The provisions on the emblem of the Red Cross are dispersed by the various

Conventions and Protocols already in place.

Since the 1990, questions have been raised about the neutrality of the use of the

emblem of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent in certain conflicts.

In 1992, the International Committee of the Red Cross, expressed publicly, for the

first time, the need to be created an additional emblem without any connotation

nationalist, political or religious, with a view to consolidating the universality of the Cross

Red, having the States Party in the Geneva Conventions, in the context of the

Diplomatic Conference held in Geneva from 5 a to December 8, 2005, adopted,

on December 8, 2005, the Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 12 of

August 1949 concerning the Adoption of an Additional Emblem (Protocol III), which was

signed by the Portuguese Republic, on December 8, 2005.

Thus:

Under the terms of the paragraph d ) of Article 197 (1) of the Constitution, the Government presents to the

Assembly of the Republic the following motion for a resolution:

CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

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Approve the Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949

relating to the Adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem (Protocol III) adopted in

Geneva on December 8, 2005, the text of which in the English-language authenticated version,

as well as its translation into the Portuguese language, it publishes in attachment.

Seen and approved in Council of Ministers of September 26, 2013

The Prime Minister

The Minister of State and Foreign Affairs

The Minister of the Presidency and Parliamentary Affairs