<P> The convention contained ten articles, establishing for the first time legally binding rules guaranteeing neutrality and protection for wounded soldiers, field medical personnel, and specific humanitarian institutions in an armed conflict . Furthermore, the convention defined two specific requirements for recognition of a national relief society by the International Committee: </P> <Ul> <Li> The national society must be recognized by its own national government as a relief society according to the convention, and </Li> <Li> The national government of the respective country must be a state party to the Geneva Convention . </Li> </Ul> <Li> The national society must be recognized by its own national government as a relief society according to the convention, and </Li> <Li> The national government of the respective country must be a state party to the Geneva Convention . </Li>

The international committee of the red cross stimulated the creation of the united nations