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Article: Long-term UN partner becomes UN member. (SystemWatch).(Switzerland joins the United Nations)(Column)
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- UN Chronicle
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- September 1, 2002
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On 3 March 2002, both the people and the cantons (the double majority required) accepted the popular initiative on Switzerland's membership to the United Nations. On the basis of an expected decision by the competent organs of the Organization, my country will thus become the 190th member of the United Nations this coming autumn. This fills me with great satisfaction for at least two reasons.
First of all, I still consider myself somewhat of a "UN man", having worked for over twenty years with and within the UN system. I started my career in New York in 1971 at the Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations, then continued in Vienna (at the UN Industrial ...