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Project to join Chablais and Faucigny to Switzerland as new cantons, 1860. This map shows the neutral zone established in 1815, illustrated by a red line running from Ugine to the Avant Pays, crossing the Chaîne de l'Épine. The King of Sardinia, Victor Emmanuel I, also called for Swiss neutrality to extend to the northern part of the Duchy of ...
An initiative to enshrine neutrality in the Swiss constitution garnered enough signatures to get a vote as debate over the policy has sharpened in recent years.
In a 2015 report requested by parliament, the government stated that a Swiss seat on the Security Council would be "fully compatible with the principles of neutrality and with Switzerland’s neutrality policy". Opponents of the project such as former ambassador Paul Widmer consider that this seat would "put its [Switzerland] neutrality at risk".
The Swiss have broadened the scope of activities in which they feel able to participate without compromising their neutrality. Switzerland maintains diplomatic relations with almost all countries and historically has served as a neutral intermediary and host to major international treaty conferences. The country has no major disputes in its ...
But Switzerland also seeks to maintain a policy of neutrality dating back more than 200 years. SECO said it already prosecutes violations of sanctions via third countries, as long as the violation ...
Neutrality has been recognised in different ways, and sometimes involves a formal guarantor. For example, Switzerland and Belgium's neutrality was recognized by the signatories of the Congress of Vienna, [21] Austria has its neutrality guaranteed by its four former occupying powers, and Finland by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The form ...
Voting in Switzerland (called votation) is the process by which Swiss citizens make decisions about governance and elect officials. The history of voting rights in Switzerland mirrors the complexity of the nation itself. The polling stations are opened on Saturdays and Sunday mornings but most [1] people vote by post in advance.
The Campaign for an Independent and Neutral Switzerland (German: Aktion für eine unabhängige und neutrale Schweiz or AUNS, French: Action pour une Suisse indépendante et neutre or ASIN, Italian: Azione per una Svizzera neutrale e indipendente or ASNI), abbreviated to AUNS, is a political organisation in Switzerland that supports Swiss independence and neutrality.