Intensive talks today with Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський in #Bern .

Switzerland continues to show solidarity with #Ukraine . 🇨🇭🤝🇺🇦

Around 66,000 refugees from #Ukraine with S protection status are currently living here.

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“Cut­ting aid and neglecting peace are evidently false economies” — a letter from Amy Pope and me on refugees and migrants published by the Financial Times today 👇🏻

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In #Greece 🇬🇷, #Swiss 🇨🇭State Secretary Christine Schraner Burgener visited the refugee camp in #Lesbos together with #UNHCR Coordinator Theodoros Alexellis. Thank you for very interesting insights into the situation of asylum seekers arriving from #Afghanistan , #Yemen and other countries.

Always a pleasure to meet SEM State Secretary Christine Schraner Burgener. Today disscussed🇨🇭concept of return of🇺🇦ns. Talked about problems and further assistance to Ukrainians in Switzerland. Thank you, Ambassador Schraner Burgener, for solidarity and constant support!

Over 18 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in #Myanmar ; 2 million are displaced; & over 15 million people are food insecure.

Following #UNSC closed consultations with UN Humanitarian,🇦🇱🇧🇷🇪🇨🇫🇷🇬🇦🇬🇭🇯🇵🇲🇹🇲🇿🇨🇭🇦🇪🇺🇸🇬🇧delivered a joint statement ➡️bit.ly/3OOSZQT

Christine Schraner Burgener, #StaatssekretärinfürMigration , spricht in ihrer Rede zum Nationalfeiertag in #Visperterminen , wie sie die #Schweiz als Auswanderungsland sieht.

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Not as significant a moment as initially hoped. Myanmar’s military junta is not freeing or pardoning Aung San Suu Kyi. It is pardoning her of 5 offences (she’s been convicted of 19). They’re shaving six years off a 33-year jail term. reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

Read about the 2-year programme to support integration of migrant children and families in 🇭🇷society by SEM and UNICEF Hrvatska supported by the Rapid Response Fund of the Swiss contribution to reducing economic and social disparities in the EU
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Besuch aus Berlin: BMin Nancy Faeser traf heute BRin Elisabeth Baume-Schneider zur einem intensiven Austausch über Migration und Sicherheit und ließ sich die automatisierten Passkontrolleinrichtungen am Flughafen Zürich zeigen. Mit dabei: Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter , Christine Schraner Burgener und #MarioFehr

State Secretary Christine Schraner Burgener and the Australian Ambassador to Switzerland Elizabeth Day 🇦🇺 Elisabeth Day met and discussed the importance of youth mobility between #Switzerland 🇨🇭 and #Australia 🇦🇺.

Ambassador Iwona Kozłowska: Europe needs close cooperation and solidarity in its struggle against illegal immigration. Today, a group of Ambassadors discussed the Swiss experience in this area with State Secretary in SEM Christine Schraner Burgener.

Ein grosser Teil der ukrainischen Schutzsuchenden sind weiterhin privat untergebracht. «Wir spüren nach wie vor eine grosse Solidarität. Dafür möchte ich der Schweizer Bevölkerung danken», sagt Staatssekretärin Christine Schraner Burgener in der #Samstagsrundschau .

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The safety of people in and around #asylum centres is a priority for 🇨🇭. State Secretary Christine Schraner Burgener personally visited an asylum application centre in 🇳🇱with IND Director General Rhodia Maas, followed by an exchange on other #migration topics.

As of today, Croatia is part of the Schengen area. This means that checks on persons at land and sea borders between Croatia and other Schengen countries have been lifted. Checks at airports will be abolished as of 26 March 2023. Further information: admin.ch/gov/de/start/d…

The junta has released 5,774 unlawful arrested civilians including figure like Ko Mya Aye. I am glad for those who are released and their family to be reuniting. We need to keep in mind that nothing has changed on ground and this is not something we have to grateful to the junta.

Good discussion with Paulo Cafôfo, Secretary of State of Portugal (on the left from Secretary of State Schraner Burgener), on migration in Bern #SEMigration Pleased that Portugal is open to negotiating a readmission agreement with Switzerland.

At the invitation of the government of both Canton Basel, I enjoyed the discussions on cross-border coop. and migration. The food prepared by #refugees who have been given jobs at the Rest. du coeur in Basel was delicious. On the left:President of Government BL Kathrin Schweizer

When elections approach in wealthy countries, refugees and migrants always become an issue.

The focus is on controls, pushbacks.

It should be on real solutions: addressing root causes, building effective asylum systems, investing in integration.

When you vote, consider that.

Today is #WorldRefugeeDay . Over the past 35 years, Switzerland has granted asylum or provisionally admitted 242,925 persons. People who are persecuted or threatened, or whose very existence would be at risk if they returned home, will continue to receive this protection.

State Secretary Christine Schraner Burgener was in Nürnberg at the ICMPD and met with State Secretary #AlexBankov from #Ukraine . They disscussed various #migration issues. According to Bankov, to this day 9 million people in Ukraine have had to leave their place of residence.