on Feb. 26, 2025, the Swiss government published their “Foreign Policy Report 2024,” whose first chapter (13 pages) is dedicated to the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa.) Although the report pretends to be neutral, its geopolitical bias is “back-lighted” by the way that it peddles the “collective West’s” narrative—that the BRICS nations are pursuing a “Westlessness” policy which, if not corrected, threatens to lead to a world divided into blocs (whereas in reality it is the collective West that has started to divide the world into blocs…). Nevertheless, the report suggests that Switzerland pursues with the BRICS its traditional policy of friendship with every country.
The report was the center of a presentation by EIR’s Claudio Celani to members of the “Impulswelle” association in Zurich on April 7. Under the title “The BRICS Chance: Is a Swiss Membership Conceivable?” Celani explained that the question must be posed at the level of Swiss traditional neutrality and international law. Negotiations between the U.S.A. and Russia are taking place in Riyadh and not in Geneva; this is because Switzerland has abandoned its neutrality tradition by adopting anti-Russia sanctions. This must be urgently corrected, if Switzerland wants to avoid being doomed like the EU, which has lost the moral fitness to survive, as economist Lyndon LaRouche would say.
