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… Red Crescent Movement's long opposition to nuclear weapons and to commit to intensify efforts to ensure that nuclear weapons are never again used, and that …
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Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.
