Cosmopolis exclusive interview with Cornelio Sommaruga, President of the ICRC, late December 1999: ‘In the long run, it is necessary to create a [UN] police or military intervention force’. On December 29th, at his 67th birthday, after twelve and one-half years as President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Cornelio Sommaruga left office. With a budget...