ieties, to train qualified personnel to facilitate the application of the Conventions and of this Protocol, and in particular the activities of the Protecting Powers.
2. The recruitment and training of such personnel are within domestic jurisdiction.
3. The International Committee of the Red Cross shall hold at the disposal of the High Contracting Parties the lists of persons so trained which the High Contracting Parties may have established and may have transmitted to it for that purpose.
4. The conditions governing the employment of such personnel outside the national territory shall, in each case, be the subject of special agreements between the Parties concerned.
Article 7
Meetings
The depositary of this Protocol shall convene a meeting of the High Contracting Parties, at the request of one or more of the said Parties and upon the approval of the majority of the said Parties, to consider general problems concerning the application of the Conventions and of the Protocol.
PART II. WOUNDED, SICK AND SHIPWRECKED
Section I
GENERAL PROTECTION
Article 8
Terminology
For the purposes of this Protocol:
a) "Wounded" and "sick" mean persons, whether military or civilian, who, because of trauma, disease or other physical or mental disorder or disability, are in need of medical assistance or care and who refrain from any act of hostility. These terms also cover maternity cases, new-born babies and other persons who may be in need of immediate medical assistance or care, such as the infirm or expectant mothers, and who refrain from any act of hostility;
b) "Shipwrecked" means persons, whether military or civilian, who are in peril at sea or in other waters as a result of misfortune affecting them or the vessel or aircraft carrying them and who refrain from any act of hostility. These persons, provided that they continue to refrain from any act of hostility, shall continue to be considered shipwrecked during their rescue until they acquire another status under the Conventions or this Protocol;
c) "Medical personnel" means those persons assigned, by a Party to the conflict, exclusively to the medical purposes enumerated under "5" or to the administration of medical units or to the operation or administration of medical transports. Such assignments may be either permanent or temporary. The term includes:
i) medical personnel of a Party to the conflict, whether
military or civilian, including those described in the First
and Second Conventions, and those assigned to civil defence
organizations;
ii) medical personnel of national Red Cross (Red Crescent,
Red Lion and Sun) Societies and other national voluntary aid
societies duly recognized and authorized by a Party to the
conflict;
iii) medical personnel or medical units or medical
transports described in Article 9, paragraph 2.
d) "Religious personnel" means military or civilian persons, such as chaplains, who are exclusively engaged in the work of their ministry and attached:
i) to the armed forces of a Party to the conflict;
ii) to medical units or medical transports of a Party to
the conflict;
iii) to medical units or medical transports described in
Article 9, Paragraph 2; or
iv) to civil defence organizations of a Party to the
conflict.
The attachment of religious personnel may be either permanent or temporary, and the relevant provisions mentioned under "11" apply to them;
e) "Medical units" means establishments and other
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