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Preamble
    (List of Contracting Parties)

    Being equally animated by the desire to lessen, so far as lies in their power, the evils inseparable from war and desiring, for this purpose, to perfect and complete the provisions agreed to at Geneva on 22 August 1864, and 6 July 1906, for the amelioration of the condition of the wounded and sick in armies in the field,
    Have resolved to conclude a new Convention for that purpose and have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries:

    (Here follow the names of Plenipotentiaries)

    Who, after having communicated to each other their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed as follows.


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