Recently, the Swiss government has been increasingly called upon to lift the ban on the supply of weapons to Kyiv, although there is still no consensus in parliament on this matter. A bill was recently submitted to parliament that would allow the government to allow the re-export of Swiss weapons to countries with the same democratic values ​​as Switzerland.
“We want to be neutral, but we are part of the Western world,” said Thierry Burkart, leader of the centre-right FDP party, which authored a law lifting the ban on arms re-exports to Ukraine.
According to him, the Swiss authorities should not have a veto to prevent others from helping Ukraine. Otherwise, the extension of such a ban would indicate support for Russia.
According to a recent sociological study, 55% of the Swiss are in favor of lifting the ban on the re-export of weapons and their supply to Ukraine.
“If we had asked this question before the war, the level of support would probably have been less than 25%. In the past, the rejection of neutrality was a taboo subject,” said Lukas Golder, head of the GFS-Bern polling company.
