US EditionSwitzerland Breaks Tradition on Arms Exports, Tests Neutrality in Ukraine War
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Parliament decided to ease arms exports, with the aim of strengthening the domestic arms industry.
Switzerland is to regulate the export of weapons less strictly. The large chamber adopts a far-reaching proposal. It should also find a majority in the Council of States.
Swiss parliamentarians supported the easing of restrictions on the export and re-export of arms, and two chambers of Parliament voted in favour of the document, reporting on Swissinfo, and the House of Representatives, by 120 votes to 63, supported the changes previously adopted by the Senate, journalists wrote that Swiss law prohibited any sale of weapons to a country that was involved in a conflict or a serious violation of human rights, and t…
The lower house of the Swiss parliament, the National Council, on Tuesday approved the easing of restrictions on the export and re-export of military equipment.
The parliament has taken over the revision of the Federal Law on War Materiel, which must lead to a relaxation and allow the re-export of Swiss weapons by its partners. A necessity in a world upset by Russian aggressionThe neighbours of Switzerland, those who protect it most surely by their union and their defence capacity, have still not understood. Berne's refusal to allow the re-export of Swiss ammunition to Ukraine in the spring of 2022, at …
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