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Switzerland will focus on the role of trust in peacebuilding and conflict prevention as it takes the rotating Council presidency next month for the first time. Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
Switzerland's top diplomat at the United Nations in New York, Pascale Baeriswyl, gives a largely positive assessment of the first four months of the country's membership on the Security Council, over which she will preside throughout May.
This content was published on April 29, 2023 April 29, 2023 TdG/Keystone-SDA/gw In an interview published on Saturday in Tamedia newspapers, Baeriswyl listed a number of accomplishments since Switzerland took its non-permanent seat on the body last January. This includes keeping the border in northwestern Syria open for the arrival of humanitarian aid, on which millions of people currently depend following devastating earthquakes in February.
“We also extended the mandate for the UN office in the Sahel to help organise elections there,” the ambassador added. And, she said, it has been possible to integrate climate issues into peacekeeping mandates, including in South Sudan.
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