RCS, ICRC's activities are based on impartiality: President

Tehran, May 9, IRNA - President Hassan Rouhani said here on Saturday that the activities of Red Crescent Society (RCS) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) are based on impartiality. President Rouhani made the remarks in a conference titled 'Caring Human Beings, Peaceful World' in a ceremony marking the beginning of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) Week. 'Red Crescent and the International Red Cross should make no distinction between Yemen and other countries,' he added. 'All human begins should be looked at as the same,' President Rouhani noted, reiterating that this is the message of IRCS in Yemen, Syria and any other countries. President Rouhani also hailed the performance of the Iranian Red Crescent Society. He described the body as the one which recognizes no borderlines, parties or political affiliations in rendering services and disregards even the religion and ethnicity of the people who need its services. President Rouhani said the very essence of the activities of the Red Crescent Society is in compliance with the teachings of the Holy Quran which recommends all human beings to save people's lives.