Peace conference: Switzerland will offer “immunity” to Putin

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Peace conference: Switzerland will offer “immunity” to Putin

Provided that Russian President Vienna “for a peace conference,” said Ignazio Cassis on Tuesday.

Vladimir Putin arriving at Geneva airport for his summit with Joe Biden, Wednesday, June 16, 2021.

AFP

Switzerland will offer “immunity” to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, despite his indictment before the International Criminal Court, on condition that it comes “for a peace conference,” the Swiss Foreign Minister, Ignazio Cassis on Tuesday.

The federal government defined last year “the rules to give immunity to a person who is under an international arrest warrant. If this person comes for a peace conference, not if they come for private reasons, “Cassis said at a press briefing with his Italian counterpart, Antonio Tajani, in Berne.

It is the French president, Emmanuel Macron, who spoke of the possibility that a possible peak of peace negotiations between Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, stands in Europe and “it will be a neutral country, and therefore perhaps Switzerland”. He says he plead for Geneva, UN European seat.

Mr. Cassis is quite ready to organize such a meeting and underlined the know-how of the Swiss in the matter, but he recalled that Russia sulked Switzerland.

This decided to inflict the sanctions decided by the European Union and imposed since the large-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in Moscow in Moscow.

“I have constantly recalled this availability (to organize editor’s note) During my contacts with the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov, in recent months (…) I was told that since Switzerland adopted European sanctions, they have naturally lost the desire to do so in Switzerland, “said the head of Swiss diplomacy.

Mr. Cassis also reported a recent precedent during the assembly of the International Parliamentary Union which saw the President of the Russian Senate coming to Geneva, Valentina Matvienko. This close to Vladimir Putin is also the subject of sanctions for his support for war.

Vladimir Putin went to Geneva the last time on the occasion of the June 16, 2021 summit with Joe Biden, who was then president of the United States.

The latest bilateral Russian-Ukrainian discussions took place in Istanbul, Turkey, which despite its membership in NATO is deemed more friendly by Moscow.

(afp)

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