Eighteen countries meet in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva" id="mwVg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Geneva">Geneva</a> and agree to form the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Committee_of_the_Red_Cross" id="mwVw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="International Committee of the Red Cross">International Red Cross</a>.<sup about="#mwt20" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"}}' id="cite_ref-2" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./October_29#cite_note-2" id="mwWA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwWQ">[2]</span></a></sup>
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