End of neutrality: Switzerland can allow weapons export through war in Ukraine - media
This restriction, according to representatives of the country's defense industry, harms trade. "We want to be neutral, but we remain part of the Western world," said Tierry Burcart, a center -country party leader who made a proposal to allow re -export of weapons to countries with democratic values. According to neutrality, Switzerland cannot directly or indirectly send weapons to war countries.
Theoretically, other countries can apply for re -export of Swiss weapons from stocks, but it is almost always denied. According to Thierry Burcart, to prevent other countries from helping Ukraine is the same as to support Russia. "Other countries want to support Ukraine and do something for Europe's security and stability . . . They cannot understand why Switzerland should say" no "," the politician explained.
Even traditional neutral defenders from the right Swiss People's Party were divided into two camps. that weapons supply permission "destroys the basis of peace and prosperity" in Switzerland, but his colleague Werner Saltzmann expresses daily anxiety that the ban harms the Swiss defense-industrial complex. Swiss of Swissmemmi has stated that the Balance of Swiss . The members of the Association have lost contracts or no longer invest in Switzerland because of this.
, Bloomberg on February 2 wrote about Switzeri's help Ї Tanks. Then the supply of Leopard was discussed 2 countries for further transfer of machines to Ukraine. On February 5, the media was accused of Patriarch of the ROC Cyril of the fact that he is a KGB agent in Switzerland. Journalists claimed that Vladimir Gundyaev worked in the 1970s by a representative of the Moscow Patriarchate under the World Council of Churches in Geneva.