Ignazio Cassis has travelled to Ukraine for talks
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Swiss foreign minister Ignazio Cassis has travelled to Ukraine for talks. The Kyiv visit is linked to Switzerland’s role as chair of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
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Cassis announced the trip in a post on Platform X on Monday. He is in Kyiv to reaffirm the OSCE’s role as a platform for dialogue and the organisation’s willingness to support efforts to achieve lasting peace on the basis of international law.
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The post was accompanied by a photo showing Cassis, his Ukrainian counterpart Andriy Sybiha and OSCE Secretary General Feridun Sinirlioğlu at Kyiv railway station.
Cassis had already announced during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos in January that he wanted to take on a mediating role in the war in Ukraine as chair of the OSCE.
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Depending on how the situation develops, he plans to travel to Kyiv, Moscow and Washington, he said at the time. It was later confirmed that Cassis will travel to Moscow on Tuesday.
The agenda for Moscow talks will include “finding ways to overcome the current serious crisis in the OSCE,” Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova announced. “We expect to discuss in detail the Chairman-in-Office’s options for restoring normal OSCE activity in the three areas of security: political-military, economic-ecological, and humanitarian.”
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