U.S. is not a reliable partner

July 5th, 2009

Dear decorum in loose, as the powerful to make concessions: That is the credo of the Federal Ueli Maurer.

Federal Minister of Defense and Ueli Maurer (SVP) criticized the U.S. president Barack Obama and his government hard: They had no kick found her, he says in an interview with the newspaper “Sonntag”. “When I think of what Obama has promised everything and what everyone expected of him, and when I see how he is now in the harsh reality lands. It must give great tensions in this government. ”

Obama leads by domestic political problems 

And that is the view of Federal Maurer also not good for Switzerland. “Such a government is truly not an ideal and reliable negotiating partner.” It was logical that the U.S. government now to criticize other countries to concentrate in order to deflect domestic political problems. For Mason, there is only one solution: “Switzerland must insist on the right – and should not give up.”

For Switzerland, and all the other small countries it is very centrally located to make sure that the power is not suddenly on the right of victory, he says. «Dear decorum in loose, as the powerful to make concessions.” Maurer, the aspects of power versus right issue repeatedly, including on National Day on 1 August.

Guantanamo Deal in favor of UBS? 

If anything, that Switzerland could be the opening of Guantánamo detainees into the game, in order for UBS Financial Center and negotiated a better result to obtain, Maurer says: “It is not excluded. But I doubt that the Obama government how it works. But a give and take is basically legal. ”

Maurer also reconsiders the role of the Swiss Armed Forces abroad. “We are after the summer holidays a working group, which prepares the Foreign Missions, the Swiss army in the future, nor can afford. We need results very soon, because it is a major withdrawal from Kosovo. “Maurer expects increased humanitarian missions. “We could, for example with the Army Corps completed the disaster.”