DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) participated in coordination meetings at the GCC Secretariat-General in Riyadh.
The meetings also saw attendance from Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the Secretariat-General.
Dr Fawzi Oussedik, Director, International Relations and International Humanitarian Law, QRC, chaired the fourth meeting of the Permanent Working Group on following up International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement deliberations on the Seville Agreement. The meeting aimed to follow up on decisions of the 10th meeting of GCC Red Crescent presidents in Kuwait last May on the Seville Agreement. The decisions involved forming a permanent working group of legal experts from GCC Red Crescent societies to discuss the Seville Agreement and adopt a consensus for GCC countries.
Dr Oussedik was selected as chairman of the group with members Dr Abdul-Karim bin Si Ali and Mohamed Abdul-Karim Al-Raheel from UAE Red Crescent, Dr Fawzi Abdullah Al-Amin from Bahrain Red Crescent, Dr Moteb Saleh Al-Eshewi from Saudi Arabia Red Crescent, Zahra Adnan Lafi Al Hassoun from QRC, and Dr Mosaed bin Rashid Al Antari from Kuwait Red Crescent.
The group discussed the paper on problematic provisions of the Seville Agreement and the proposed mechanism to formulate a unified approach to how GCC Red Crescent societies would contribute input to the amendment process.
The paper will be submitted to the preliminary executive meeting of the 11th meeting of GCC Red Crescent presidents in Qatar next month. The proposed mechanism to formulate a unified approach to how GCC Red Crescent societies would be drafted for the representative council meeting on the Seville Agreement will be submitted to the preliminary executive meeting. A workshop was proposed during the Seville Agreement meetings in Geneva in December.
The working group also reviewed a paper developed by Dr Oussedik on main topics to be amended in the items of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) statute: Electoral reforms, integrity and compliance reforms, governance structures and other issues.
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