Promoting peace and security are among Switzerland's foreign policy priorities. In his speech to the NPT Review Conference Mr Burkhalter will stress the need to strengthen the regime of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and accelerate the implementation of the NPT plan of action. The NPT was concluded in 1968 and Switzerland acceded to it in 1977.
At the end of the conference, a final document will reaffirm the earlier agreements and in addition trace out an ambitious and feasible path to achieve progress at the level of the three pillars on which the treaty is based, i.e. the field of nuclear non-proliferation and those of disarmament and cooperation in the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
The head of the FDFA will then leave New York on Monday for Belgrade where he will attend on Tuesday a meeting of the foreign ministers that make up the OSCE Troika, i.e. the foreign ministers of Serbia, Switzerland and Germany.
Foreign Ministers Ivica Dacic, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Didier Burkhalter will discuss in particular the role of the OSCE in the Ukraine crisis, strengthening the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine on the ground, the implementation of the Minsk Agreement, prospects for the coming months and the functioning of the OSCE in the context of the Ukraine crisis.
Further information:
Disarmament and non-proliferation
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
Address for enquiries:
Information FDFA
Bundeshaus West
CH-3003 Bern
Tel.: +41 58 462 31 53
Fax: +41 58 464 90 47
E-Mail: info@eda.admin.ch
