Geneva to host conference on Middle East conflict on March 7
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Listening: Geneva to host conference on Middle East conflict on March 7
A conference on the situation of civilians living in the Israeli occupied territories will take place in Geneva on March 7, the Swiss foreign ministry has confirmed. The United Nations General Assembly had given Switzerland a mandate to organise it, as the depositary state of the Geneva Conventions.
On September 18, the UN General Assembly entrusted Switzerland with the task of organising the meeting when the Gaza war was still raging. This followed a UN resolution demanding an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories within 12 months.
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Switzerland will organise a meeting of the parties to the Geneva Conventions on the Middle East conflict within six months.
“I can inform you that a conference of high contracting parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention will be held in Geneva on March 7, 2025,” Nicolas Bideau, the Swiss foreign ministry’s head of communications, confirmed to Swiss public radio, RTS, on Friday.
196 invited states
The meeting will serve to examine “the measures to be taken to implement the Convention in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem”, he noted.
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The conference, planned for March, is likely to have a considerable political impact, notably on an arms embargo against Israel.
Switzerland has invited all 196 states parties to the Geneva Convention to participate in the conference. “As a depositary state, Switzerland has already organised such conferences in 1999, 2001 and 2014,” says the Swiss ministry.
The Fourth Geneva Convention, part of a series of international treaties agreed in 1949 after World War Two, defines humanitarian protections for civilians living in areas of armed conflict or occupation.
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