Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's meeting with President of the Swiss Confederation and Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs Ignazio Cassis
21 September 2022 21:19
1923-21-09-2022
On September 21, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with President of the Swiss Confederation and Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs Ignazio Cassis in New York on the sidelines of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly.
The Russian side pointed out Switzerland's departure from the principle of neutrality, as evidenced in fully siding with the EU's anti-Russia sanctions and pursuing an unfriendly policy with regard to Russia. Bern was called on to return to neutral state policy, which in previous years won the Confederation recognition in the international arena.
During the discussion on the situation in Ukraine in the context of the special military operation conducted by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov laid out Russia's fundamental approaches to this matter. He highlighted the dangerous nature of the Kiev regime's and the Western countries' course of escalating and dragging out the crisis, as well as thwarting efforts to achieve a political and diplomatic settlement.
A number of practical items on the bilateral and international agendas were reviewed in the context of the Confederation being elected a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for 2023-2024.
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