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ICRC delegates train for missions abroad.
This content was published on July 8, 2009 - 15:31
At the Ecogia training centre just outside Geneva, new delegates put into practice what they had learned with intensive simulation exercises. Passing military checkpoints, comforting refugees or responding to the media are just a few of the situations they could find themselves in.
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