On Saturday, representatives of the hundred delegations present for the conference on Ukraine at Bürgenstock posed for the official photo under a ceiling of clouds. The moment was not lost on another photographer, who worked for the AFP pool, Michael Buholzer. This photo of the official photo is particularly telling of the scale of the event.
One thing is certain, if the summit ended with a relatively modest declaration of intentions, Switzerland’s organization of the summit was impeccable and some have described it as a “postcard summit”.
In any case, this unprecedented diplomatic offensive by Switzerland will have left its mark. “The logistics worked, there were no dangerous incidents and open conflicts between the delegations were avoided,” noted the “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” this Monday.
The German-speaking press unanimously underlines the quality and precision of the Swiss welcome for an event of such magnitude with the deployment of 4,000 soldiers from the Swiss army.
The only complaints come from certain representatives of the UDC who denounce a useless and costly conference. “The mountain has given birth to a mouse,” declares Pierre-André Page in “Le Temps”. The three points adopted by the participants (food security, nuclear security, deported children and prisoners) are self-evident. There was no need to ask the taxpayer for millions to organize this summit.
