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KL Red Cross delegates to visit the Sultanate

Sunday, May 26, 2013

INTERNATIONAL Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) regional office in Kuala Lumpur will be visiting Brunei Darussalam Red Crescent (BDRC) from May 27 to 28, 2013 for a series of courtesy calls and meetings with local authorities.

According to a press statement, two courtesy calls have been confirmed to take place during the visit.

On May 27, a courtesy call will be made to Datin Hjh Adina Hj Othman, Deputy Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports around 2pm in the afternoon. On the day itselfI, CRC members will also have a meeting with the board members of BDRCS at Green Room, Berakas Indoor Stadium. It will then follow by another call to Colonel (R) Pg Dato Paduka Hj Rosli Pg Hj Chuchu, the Director for National Disaster Management Centre (NDMC). The ICRC delegation will meet Senior Officials at Ministry of Foreign Affairs at 3.30pm.

On Tuesday May 28, ICRC delegation will meet Acting Director of Schools at Ministry of Education building at Jalan Ong Sum Ping around 9am.

The delegation will proceed to have a meeting with Officials from Department of Co-Curriculum at their Office at Kampung Perpindahan Lambak Kanan, Berakas.

The ICRC established in 1863 and celebrates its one hundred and fifty years of humanitarian action this year, working worldwide to provide humanitarian help for people affected by conflict and armed violence and to promote the laws that protect victims of war.

An independent and neutral organisation, its mandate stems essentially from the Geneva Conventions of 1949; the cornerstones of the International Humanitarian Law (IHL).

While based in Geneva, Switzerland, the ICRC employs some twelve hundred thousand people in eighty different countries. Its regional office in Kuala Lumpur that was launched in 2001 covered Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore. It focuses on the dialogue with national and regional bodies on humanitarian issues and IHL, among others.

This year BDRC celebrates its 65th anniversary as it was formed in 1948.

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