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Nigeria – Middle East – Vietnam – Malaysia – North Yemen – Arab Republic of the Yemen – South Arabia – Switzerland – Poland – Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1969

Extract

On the morning of 30 June 1969, the Nigerian Government officially stated that it was putting an end to the assignment which the ICRC had been discharging since July 1968 for co-ordination of relief action in territory controlled by the Federal Government. This decision stipulated that:

the Nigerian Rehabilitation Commission would take over co-ordination, with assistance from the Nigerian Red Cross; relief to Biafra would be subject to control by the federal authorities;

only people or organisations complying with Federal Government requirements would be permitted to carry out relief operations.

Type
International Committee of the Red Cross
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1969

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References

page 417 note 1 The following rectification to the figure quoted in the last paragraph of the article “Help to war victims in Nigeria” which appeared in our previous issue: 25 thousand tons of food instead of 25 tons.

page 417 note 2 Plate.—In Lagos, Red Cross relief supplies are stored in inflatable warehouses and one of the ships chartered by the ICRC will leave for Calabar where relief will be distributed to the victims of the war.

page 425 note 1 Plate.—The ICRC representative visiting prisoners in Venezuela.