Swiss call for end to violence in Middle East
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Switzerland’s foreign minister has called for the violence in the Middle East to stop immediately and has offered his condolences to the families of the victims.
This content was published on May 13, 2021 - 14:20
May 13, 2021 - 14:20
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Ignazio Cassis’s comments, made on Twitter, come amid days of violence between the Israeli military and Palestinian Hamas militants in the Gaza region that have caused international concern.
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SWISS AUTHORITIES ON TUESDAY confirmed that a senior diplomat working at the embassy of Switzerland in Iran had died, after apparently falling from a high-rise building in a leafy northern Tehran suburb. Subsequent reports stated that United States officials had been informed of the incident.
The Swiss diplomat’s death would be of interest to Washington, because the Swiss embassy in the Iranian capital has represented US interests since 1980. A few months earlier, Iran and the US had suspended diplomatic ties following the dramatic events surrounding what came to be known as the Iran hostage crisis. The two countries have yet to re-establish diplomatic ties.
Senior Swiss embassy official in Iran dies in high-rise fall
The official lived on the 18th floor of a residential building in Tehran. Keystone / Abedin Taherkenareh
The woman fell from her residential apartment building in Tehran on Tuesday, according to local reports.
This content was published on May 4, 2021 - 11:11
May 4, 2021 - 11:11
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The Iranian ILNA news agency said she lived on the 18th floor of a building in the north of the capital city. She was 52 years old and the second-highest ranking employee at the Swiss embassy in Iran, according to the news agency.
When contacted by SWI swissinfo.ch, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) confirmed the reports of the woman s death.
OREANDA-NEWS. The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (MFA) confirmed to RIA Novosti the death of an employee of the Confederate Embassy in Tehran, noting that the Swiss authorities are in contact with the Iranian authorities on the circumstances of the incident.
It is reported that a 51-year-old employee of the Swiss Embassy, which represents US interests in Iran, died after falling from a high-rise building in Tehran, as reported by Mehr, citing information from emergency services. The woman fell out of the window of a high-rise building in the north of the Iranian capital, where she lived.
It is indicated that the deceased served as the first secretary of the embassy and represented the interests of the United States. It is still unknown whether her death was an accident or a suicide.