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NATO is opening a multilateral liaison office in Geneva for international and non-governmental organisations. The Swiss government formally gave its approval on Monday.
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In Bern, the head of the Directorate of International Law at the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Franz Perrez, and John Swords, Legal Advisor and Director of the Legal Affairs Office of NATO, signed an agreement regulating the legal status of the liaison office.
+“Natural interest” in Swiss-NATO cooperation
Switzerland is facilitating the opening of the liaison office as part of its role as host state. The signed host state agreement regulates, among other things, the legal status of the liaison office as well as privileges and immunities, the Federal Council announced.
The office in Geneva, which has not yet started work, is the third such NATO liaison office at a UN headquarters after New York and Vienna, a Swiss foreign ministry spokesperson told the Keystone-SDA news agency.
Of the four UN headquarters worldwide, only Nairobi is not also the location of a NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) liaison office.
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