Switzerland reopens its embassy in Tehran, will represent US and Iranian interests
The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAE) announced that its embassy in the Iranian capital Tehran reopened today.
The mission was closed on June 20 after a series of bombings by Israeli aircraft, and the diplomatic staff were evacuated to the country.
Swiss Ambassador Nadine Olivieri Lozano and a small team of her colleagues reached Tehran by land through Azerbaijan.
- The decision to reopen the embassy was made after an analysis of the geopolitical situation and after bilateral consultations with Iran and the United States, whose interests Switzerland represents as a so-called caring country - the DFAE wrote in a statement.
Following the severance of diplomatic relations between the United States and Iran in 1980, Switzerland has represented the United States in its contacts with Iran.
Under the bilateral agreement with Iran, it plays an identical role in that country's relations with the American administration of successive presidents.
The opening of the embassy is an important signal that Iran and the United States may soon resume talks on the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Switzerland, for its part, has identified Geneva as the venue for future negotiations.
Journalist, graduate of political science at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University. Associated with the media for over 40 years. After graduating in 1982, he worked in the editorial offices of "Gazeta Krakowska" and "Kurier Polski". Member of the editorial team of "Przegląd Techniczny". He published texts in "Student", "Przekrój", "Życie Literackie". Since the economic and political changes, for over 20 years associated with the Reuters agency as a correspondent in Krakow. For the next three years, he conducted practical classes with students at the Institute of Journalism, Media and Social Communication of the Jagiellonian University. Since December 2021, he has joined the PTWP Group and works on the WNP.PL portal. His main professional interests are economics and politics at the global level and the participation of Polish business in this, especially companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Winner of the "Ostrego Pióra" award, granted for "spreading economic education" by the BCC, as well as the Golden Pear - a journalistic award of the Małopolska Branch of the Association of Journalists of the Republic of Poland.
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