Active Users:346 Time:17/06/2025 06:54:17 AM
Libya petitions UN to dismantle Switzerland smaug Send a noteboard - 03/09/2009 10:17:36 PM
September 3, 2009 - 8:35 AM
Libyan anti-Swiss motion rejected

A Libyan motion calling for the dismemberment of Switzerland was rejected by the United Nations about a month ago, a UN spokesman said on Thursday.

Farhan Haq told the Swiss news agency that Libya had submitted the proposal for discussion by the General Assembly, but it was thrown out by the committee responsible for setting the assembly's agenda, since it contradicted the principles of the UN charter.

According to the charter, no member country can threaten the existence or sovereignty of another.

The document was therefore never circulated or published.

Swiss parliamentarian Christa Markwalder had told a Swiss public television news programme on Wednesday that Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi intended to present the proposal to the United Nations General Assembly, which he is due to address on September 23.

The Swiss UN mission in New York told swissinfo.ch on Thursday that the committee which decides on the agenda for General Assembly debates had not received any such motion.

Markwalder, who is vice-president of the House of Representatives external policies commission, had expressed concern that Libya would use its forthcoming year-long presidency of the UN General Assembly to damage Switzerland's reputation.

She said Swiss diplomacy needed to work hard to avoid a scandal at the UN meeting.

Gaddafi first mentioned the idea of dismemberment during the G8 summit in Italy in July. Switzerland "is a world mafia and not a state", he said, adding that it was "formed of an Italian community that should return to Italy, another German community that should return to Germany, and a third French community that should return to France".

The United States ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, noted on Wednesday that the upcoming UN meeting would be devoted solely to disarmament and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, adding it would be "irrelevant and misplaced" for any head of state to talk about unrelated subjects.

Nothing like a little absurdity to make my day
Neutral Observer
Swissinfo
This message last edited by smaug on 04/09/2009 at 01:38:57 AM
Reply to message
Libya petitions UN to dismantle Switzerland - 03/09/2009 10:17:36 PM 823 Views
Switzerland? - 03/09/2009 10:25:44 PM 549 Views
What's so funny?! *NM* - 03/09/2009 10:35:59 PM 263 Views
Explain to an ignorant world citizen here. Why Switzerland? *NM* - 03/09/2009 10:29:53 PM 286 Views
Ghaddafi has a personal beef with the entire country - 03/09/2009 10:39:05 PM 543 Views
Bawwwww! - 04/09/2009 01:24:02 AM 576 Views
sound reasonable to me *NM* - 03/09/2009 10:53:05 PM 262 Views
Bah! I'm not talking to you anymore! *NM* - 03/09/2009 11:21:23 PM 243 Views
There is no sense here. My dad got caught speeding in Poland, can Poland go now?! *NM* - 04/09/2009 12:19:08 AM 394 Views
Yes? - 04/09/2009 12:26:06 AM 516 Views
No! *NM* - 04/09/2009 12:27:12 AM 266 Views
Ja! - 04/09/2009 01:13:22 AM 522 Views
I say we make them a U.S. Colony - 04/09/2009 06:14:18 AM 491 Views
*NM* - 04/09/2009 10:00:47 AM 258 Views
Excellent idea! - 04/09/2009 04:54:22 PM 511 Views
- 04/09/2009 06:48:46 PM 526 Views
Take the chocolate...leave the women. *NM* - 04/09/2009 07:08:38 PM 268 Views
The women will follow the chocolate *NM* - 04/09/2009 07:29:22 PM 258 Views
It's seems I've made a drastic miscalculation here - 04/09/2009 07:31:23 PM 507 Views
I read that as "Labia petitions UN to dismantle Switzerland" at first glance. / *NM* - 04/09/2009 12:21:55 AM 170 Views
Um... how would that even work? *NM* - 04/09/2009 12:26:44 AM 256 Views
Well with Ghaddafi acting like a p it makes it almost more a pun than a misread. *NM* - 04/09/2009 12:30:26 AM 261 Views
Ok then. I forgive you *NM* - 04/09/2009 12:32:03 AM 287 Views
You weren't the only one. *NM* - 04/09/2009 12:26:51 AM 278 Views
Twisted people, all of you *NM* - 04/09/2009 12:27:34 AM 265 Views
I won't deny it. In fact, I revel in it. *NM* - 04/09/2009 12:31:00 AM 267 Views
heehee! *NM* - 04/09/2009 12:30:32 AM 255 Views
Libya, not "Lybia" - the story got it right, why couldn't you? *NM* - 04/09/2009 01:03:45 AM 191 Views
In fairness, that spelling doesn't make much sense. - 04/09/2009 01:06:49 AM 546 Views
*is horrible* - 04/09/2009 01:17:22 AM 537 Views
It's called a "historical Greek name" - 04/09/2009 03:39:44 AM 395 Views
Yeah, so I discovered after posting that... my bad. - 04/09/2009 10:15:49 AM 415 Views
My apologies for being imperfect - corrected *NM* - 04/09/2009 01:39:56 AM 260 Views
Libya is crazy. - 04/09/2009 01:25:25 AM 529 Views
But being mean to Switzerland is like kicking puppies - 04/09/2009 08:55:36 AM 520 Views
You mean it is fun but you don't want the hot girl you like to catch you doing it? - 04/09/2009 12:23:07 PM 499 Views
That would be kicking kittens *NM* - 04/09/2009 12:37:53 PM 241 Views
Monster *NM* - 04/09/2009 12:54:52 PM 256 Views
Also, who would be the hot girl in this metaphor? *NM* - 04/09/2009 12:47:38 PM 264 Views
England *NM* - 04/09/2009 12:54:08 PM 236 Views
England and Libya? Shocking I say! *NM* - 04/09/2009 01:05:11 PM 258 Views
Oh yes *NM* - 04/09/2009 01:08:52 PM 251 Views
Brilliant - 04/09/2009 12:26:20 PM 543 Views
Re: Brilliant - 04/09/2009 01:02:34 PM 542 Views
Oh yes - 04/09/2009 01:07:31 PM 478 Views
Had, you mean. - 04/09/2009 01:18:35 PM 467 Views
He's not dead - 04/09/2009 03:56:49 PM 474 Views

Reply to Message