Swiss
FM Cassis Says UNaware of
Nigeria Visa Issues Talks Iran
NoKo and Arms Transfers
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
September 26 – When Swiss
Foreign Minister Ignazio
Cassis help a press
availability early on
September 26, Inner City Press
went to ask him something it
first asked the UN, about
complaints that despite
invitations to Geneva by the
UN Working Group on Enforced
Disappearances victims from
Biafra and Ambazonia in
Cameroon were denied visas by
the Swiss embassy in Abuja,
Nigeria.
Cassis said he
was unaware of the issue but
to ask the consul general. He
was otherwise responsive,
about the political
consideration in Switzerland
about arms transfers -- the
country's former UN
Ambasssador Peter Maurer, now
heading the ICRC, this week
called for review as to Yemen
-- and the North Korea
process.
Is
Switzerland on the short list
to host the second round of
talks between Kim Jong Un and
Donald Trump? Cassis replied
he didn't know where on the
list the Swiss are but that
they play a unique role. He
repeated this as to Iran,
where Switzerland represents
the US' interests. Here were
his bilateral meetings:
1045 EU
High Representative Federica
Mogherini
1100
Foreign Minister Abdelkader
Messahel, Algeria
1230 Foreign Minister Osman
Mohammed Saleh, Eritrea
1300 Foreign
Minister Augusto Santos Silva,
Portugal
1330 EU
Commissioner Johannes Hahn
1430 Foreign
Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood
Hussain Qureshi, Pakistan
1530 Foreign
Minister Sergey Lavrov,
Russian Federation
1700 Foreign
Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin
Zayed Al Nahyan, United Arab
Emirates
It's UNGA
madness, in four languages. We
hope to have more on this.
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