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The country has a history of armed neutrality going back to the Reformation; it has not been in a state of war internationally since 1815 [5] [6] apart from the Sonderbund War (Switzerland civil war), joining the League of Nations in 1920 [5] and did not join the United Nations until 2002. [7]
Switzerland, fearing that its status as a neutral country would be damaged, did not join the United Nations when it was created in 1945. [2] On 10 September 2002, Switzerland became a full member of the United Nations, after a referendum supporting full membership won in a close vote six months earlier; Swiss voters had rejected membership by a ...
Countries on the unfriendly countries list would not receive reciprocity for copyrighted goods. [23] In March 2023, Russia announced that people from unfriendly countries will be subject to a "voluntary" exit tax of up to 10 percent to be paid into the Russian federal budget, on the sale of shares in Russian companies. [24]
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The group brought together neutral countries of Austria, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland on one, and non-aligned SFR Yugoslavia, Cyprus and Malta on the other hand, all of which together shared interest in preservation of their independent non-bloc position with regard to NATO, European Community, Warsaw Pact and the Council for Mutual Economic ...
The Anglo-Irish Treaty, which entered into force in 1922, created Ireland as an independent state and determined it as a neutral state. This did not change with the new Constitution of Ireland in 1937, and in an Anglo-Irish defence agreement in 1938 it was assured that Ireland would not be used as a base for foreign states to attack the United ...
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As famously neutral Switzerland becomes a playground for spies and freedom fighters, tensions rise. Even in the idyllic Davos. “All neutral countries were hotspots for espionage.