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- Sustainable Swiss embassies
- Switzerland, multilateralism and other celebrations in 2019
- Democracy Without Borders
- Switzerland's activities in Ukraine
- FDFA commitment to refugees and migration issues
- Swiss protecting power mandates for the United States and Cuba
- OSCE Chairmanship 2014
- Arab Forum on Asset Recovery
- Swiss efforts to protect children in armed conflicts
- 200 years of diplomatic relations between Switzerland and Russia
- 150 years of Swiss humanitarian commitment
- World Day against the Death Penalty
- Gender equality and Women's rights
- 15 years of Swiss UN membership
- Switzerland commemorates the victims of the Holocaust
- Switzerland's position on the Middle East conflict
- Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC2022) in Lugano on 4–5 July 2022
- Switzerland in the UN Security Council
- Switzerland's activities in Ukraine
- Examples of projects
The European Charter of Local Self-Government was ratified by Ukraine in 1997. As a signatory, it committed itself to conceding greater responsibility to local authorities and to strengthening the involvement of the country's citizens in the democratic decision-making process. It is only in more recent years, however, that the government has taken the first steps towards reforming the public administration. In that context the SDC, at the official request of the then president of Ukraine, and based on its positive experience with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), decided in 2006 to launch the project "Support to Decentralization in Ukraine" (DESPRO).