New York, 13.07.2018 – Jürg Lauber, head of the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations in New York, was co-lead of the negotiation process for the Global Compact for Migration.
Bern, 29.06.2018 – The sustainable development of urban and rural areas in Africa at the heart of the Annual Swiss Cooperation Conference. Speech Ignazio Cassis
Annual Swiss Development Cooperation Conference 2018
“Developing urban and rural areas sustainably - Two of Switzerland’s priorities in Africa”. SDC and SECO food security and urban development efforts were the focus of this year's conference on 29 June 2018.
Gender equality, respect for women's and girls' rights, and the prohibition of all forms of gender-based discrimination are fundamental values for Swtizerland.
The principles, tasks, objectives and focus of Switzerland’s international cooperation are set out in the Federal Council’s 2017–2020 Dispatch to Parliament.
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