In their issues of Monday, 30 December 2019, the Tages-Anzeiger and other Tamedia AG media
outlets published an interview with Chinese conceptual artist Ai Weiwei.
The facts regarding a question concerning the FDF were reported incorrectly:
The article states that President Ueli Maurer "signed the controversial agreement on China's new Silk Road".
In fact, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the development of cooperation in third markets was signed by State Secretaries Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch, Director of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), and Daniela Stoffel, Director of the State Secretariat for International Finance (SIF), and not by the heads of state of China and Switzerland. This is a Technical Memorandum of Understanding.
Press release
MoU
(PDF, 384 kB, 07.02.2024)