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A member of the Swiss government will in all likelihood travel to Beijing next month for the opening of the Winter Olympics. The pandemic, not international calls for a boycott, would be the only stumbling block.
This content was published on January 12, 2022 - 16:35 January 12, 2022 - 16:35 Keystone-SDA/dos
At its meeting on Wednesday, the seven ministers agreed in principle that one of them would travel with the Swiss delegation to represent the country at the Games, which begin on February 4, the government spokesman said.
A definitive decision, subject to the pandemic situation, will be taken at a later date.
Switzerland will thus not be following the decision of some other western nations in recent weeks to diplomatically boycott the Olympics – sending athletes to compete, but no official representatives – as a protest against human rights issues in China.
Citing the treatment of the Uighur minority group in Xinjiang, as well as the situation for democracy activists in Hong Kong, states like the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Canada and Japan will not be officially represented at the opening of the Games – moves which China has said it will answer with“decisive counter-measures”.
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