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Swiss and American parliamentarians met in Geneva. If this meeting is planned twice a year independently of the current crisis, the customs prices have been discussed.
(Keystone-ATS) “We obviously talked about it, but we talked about many other things,” the national advisor Laurent Wehrli (PLR/VD) told Keystone (PLR/VD) on Friday afternoon on Friday afternoon. The Swiss delegation, led by the president of the Swiss/United States friendship group Damien Cottier (PLR/NE), was much lower than the 28 members of the House of Representatives.
American elected officials, including 20 Republicans and eight Democrats, are not leading members of the Congress. And no one is considered very close to President Donald Trump.
WTO visit
But “in the current context, it is important that all the channels continue to speak to each other,” said Wehrli, adding that possible communication would come from the Americans. The Federal Council is in charge of negotiations but parliamentarians “can support” dialogue, noted the national councilor.
For his part, the representative of Caroline du Nord Greg Murphy wished on social networks that “the commercial situation with Switzerland was settled quickly”. “The Swiss have always been important partners” on drugs or foreign affairs, according to him. “Let’s go for this,” added the member of the Republican Party.
The security of the Intercontinental hotel, however broken to discussions of larger-range than this, was more tense than usual. Instructions have been given by the security officials of the delegations to dismiss journalists, elected officials who do not wish to express themselves immediately.
American representatives will have had another world trade experience in Geneva. On Wednesday, they went to the headquarters of the World Trade Organization (WTO), an institution openly combated by the head of the White House, Keystone-ATS learned from a source close to the file.
