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Andrea Studer, deputy director of the Directorate for Development and Cooperation (SDC), will leave her position at the end of August. The Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs (EDA) confirmed information from French-language Swiss television RTS on Thursday without commenting on the reasons.
According to television, the departure is related to the activities of Palestinian and Israeli non-governmental organizations. Following the terrorist attack by the Islamist Hamas on Israeli civilians on October 7, the FDFA subjected eleven Swiss-funded organizations to inspections, six Palestinian and five Israeli.
Individual organizations did not act in accordance with the rules
The inspection focused on respecting the EDA’s code of conduct and the anti-discrimination clause in contracts with non-governmental organizations. According to the findings, three Palestinian organizations did not act in accordance with the rules, as Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis (62) announced in November.
When asked by the Keystone-SDA news agency, the EDA did not comment on whether Studer’s departure was related to these investigation results. The Deputy Director managed the Middle East file at the SDC. (SDA)
Source:Blick
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