Syrian objections seem unlikely to scuttle an accord paving the way for Magen David Adom’s acceptance in the International Red Cross. “This agreement was hammered out and everyone wants to see it done, therefore it is highly unlikely that Syria would be able to derail it,” officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies told a delegation of U.S. congressmen Monday in Geneva, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) told JTA.
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