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    Article 4 - Shape

    The distinctive emblem (red on a white ground) shall be as large as appropriate under the circumstances. For the shapes of the cross, the crescent or the lion and sun*, the High Contracting Parties may be guided by the models shown in Figure 2.

    * No State has used the emblem of the lion and sun since 1980.


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