The High Contracting Parties may at any time agree to entrust to an organization which offers all guarantees of impartiality and efficacy the duties incumbent on the Protecting Powers by virtue of the present Convention. Their activities shall only be restricted as an exceptional and temporary measure when this is rendered necessary by imperative military necessities.
They shall, in particular, take account of the imperative necessities of security of the State wherein they carry out their duties. The representatives or delegates of the Protecting Powers shall not in any case exceed their mission under the present Convention. The Parties to the conflict shall facilitate to the greatest extent possible, the task of the representatives or delegates of the Protecting Powers. The said delegates shall be subject to the approval of the Power with which they are to carry out their duties. For this purpose, the Protecting Powers may appoint, apart from their diplomatic or consular staff, delegates from amongst their own nationals or the nationals of other neutral Powers.
The present Convention shall be applied with the co-operation and under the scrutiny of the Protecting Powers whose duty it is to safeguard the interests of the Parties to the conflict.
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