2024-03-07 Testimony Ltc. Kahiwalani, Occupied Forces Hawaii Army

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38 FIRST GENEVA CONVENTION OF 1949 chaplains, as defined by the present Convention, nor restrict the rights which it confers upon them. Wounded and sick,as well as medical personnel and chaplains,shall continue to have the benefit of such agreements as long as the Convention is applicable to them, except where express provisions to the contrary are contained in the aforesaid or in subsequent agreements,or where more favourable measures have been taken with regard to them by one or other of the Parties to the conflict. Non- ART.7. —Wounded and sick,as well as members of the medical renunciation personnel and chaplains,may in no circumstances renounce in part of rights or in entirety the rights secured to them by the present Convention, and by the special agreements referred to in the foregoing Article,if such there be. Protecting ART. 8. — The present Convention shall be applied with the co- Powers operation and under the scrutiny of the Protecting Powers whose duty it is to safeguard the interests of the Parties to the conflict.For this purpose,the Protecting Powers may appoint, apart from their diplomatic or consular staff, delegates from amongst their own nationals or the nationals of other neutral Powers. The said delegates shall be subject to the approval of the Power with which they are to carry out their duties. The Parties to the conflict shall facilitate, to the greatest extent possible, the task of the representatives or delegates of the Protecting Powers. The representatives or delegates of the Protecting Powers shall not in any case exceed their mission under the present Convention.They shall, in particular, take account of the imperative necessities of security of the State wherein they carry out their duties.Their activities shall only be restricted, as an exceptional and temporary measure, when this is rendered necessary by imperative military necessities. Activities ART.9. — The provisions of the present Convention constitute no of the obstacle to the humanitarian activities which the International InterCommittee of Committee of the Red Cross or anyother impartial humanitarian Committee of P the Red Cross organization may,subject to the consent of the Parties to the conflict concerned, undertake for the protection of wounded and sick, medical personnel and chaplains,and for their relief. Substitutes for ART. I0. — The High Contracting Parties may at any time agree Protecting to entrust to an organization which offers all guarantees of Powers impartiality and efficacy the duties incumbent on the Protecting Powers by virtue of the present Convention.