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Article: Swiss voters OK joining U.N.; 190th member: Many Swiss fear losing their neutrality
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- March 4, 2002
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GENEVA (AP) - Swiss voters approved joining the United Nations on
Sunday, finding the prospect of a greater role in today's interlinked
world more compelling than fears that it would threaten the nation's
centuries-old tradition of neutrality.
The country, which has been formally neutral for almost 200 years,
will become the United Nations' 190th member. Only the Vatican
remains outside the world body.
During the Cold War, Switzerland feared U.N. membership would
sweep it into the battles between East and West. More recently,
opponents have feared having to submit to the political dictates of
the Security Council.
The Swiss have practiced forms of neutrality on and off since the
13th ...