Strasbourg, 20/03/2000 (Agence Europe) - When, on 12 August 1949, 63 countries signed the four Geneva Conventions that form the basis of international humanitarian law applicable in times of armed conflict, these countries were emerging from a devastating conflict that had pushed them to seek international rules for new ethical conduct, said Frncisco Seixas da Costa, on behalf of the Presidency of the EU Council, in a debate the European Parliament had last week on the occasion of the 50th...