Countering Criticism from the Third World: Switzerland’s Stance on White Minority Rule

Author(s) : Sabina Widmer

Source : https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004469617_005

“In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Swiss government’s position towards Portuguese colonialism and the independence wars in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau was not fundamentally different from during the early years of the conflict. The Swiss authorities still preferred to avoid taking a stand and tried to keep the door open to both the coloniser and the colonised. This was increasingly difficult, however, as Portugal became the last European colonial power to resist decolonisation.”