Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)

Does the Minister agree that the Swiss position fundamentally changed when it decided, at a late stage, to join the United Nations, despite previously enjoying the benefit of having United Nations institutions located in Geneva? The issue is that dictatorship funds and illegal African debt - money robbed from aid organisations - have transferred through Liechtenstein and Luxembourg into Swiss banks. In the case of the Duvalier family, it is interesting that the French position was that it was happy to have the elected President of Haiti exiled to the Central African Republic while it supplied residence for the remnants of the Duvalier family which had been robbing the people of Haiti for two generations.

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