{"id":63953,"date":"2026-05-12T09:29:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/63953\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T09:29:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:29:34","slug":"switzerland-joins-coalition-to-repatriate-ukrainian-children-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/63953\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland joins coalition to repatriate Ukrainian children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/c94e325e2f904859ddb9aa40350bda1cf60a8fcc-91396711.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"poster\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>        Switzerland is taking part for the first time as a member of a meeting of the international coalition for the return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia. So far, it has only participated as an observer.\n<\/p>\n<p>            Listen to the article        <\/p>\n<p>            Listening the article        <\/p>\n<p>                Toggle language selector            <\/p>\n<p>                            English (US)                        <\/p>\n<p>                            English (British)                        <\/p>\n<p>            Generated with artificial intelligence.        <\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        May 11, 2026 &#8211; 14:03\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSwitzerland has formally notified Ukraine and Canada that they have joined,\u201d a foreign ministry spokesperson told the Keystone-SDA news agency upon request. Canada and Ukraine created the coalition in February 2024. A total of 47 countries and international organisations are members of the coalition, according to its website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/latest-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">+Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The meeting will take place in Brussels on Monday afternoon. Switzerland is represented by Ambassador Rita Adam, head of the Swiss Mission to the European Union (EU). Until now, Switzerland has regularly attended coalition meetings as an observer. By joining, the Swiss government is fulfilling a mandate from parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Around 20,000 children deported<\/p>\n<p>According to the website, the coalition is aware of just over 20,000 reports of possible deportations and forced resettlement of children by Russia. A total of 2,133 children had been returned to Ukraine from deportation, forced resettlement and temporary occupation.<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/f0a13888dc680925f89b31c96e305bfc-otr_3x2_jaffe-eng-data.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" alt=\"teaser picture featuring a man and a woman for a conversation about child victims of war\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        International Geneva\n        <\/p>\n<p>        Child victims in Ukraine \u2013 can the trauma be cured?    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Sep 1, 2023                    <\/p>\n<p>                A conversation with Philip Jaff\u00e9, a Swiss professor of psychology and vice president of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/international-geneva\/child-victims-in-ukraine-can-the-trauma-be-cured\/48736074\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: Child victims in Ukraine \u2013 can the trauma be cured?<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The meeting in Brussels is chaired by the EU, Ukraine and Canada. In particular, the coalition should press ahead with measures to bring the children back, help them recover and get back to their lives, and hold Russia accountable.<\/p>\n<p>Join the debate: <\/p>\n<p>Adapted from German by AI\/ac<\/p>\n<p>                How we work            <\/p>\n<p>We select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools to translate them into English. A journalist then reviews the translation for clarity and accuracy before publication.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Providing you with automatically translated news gives us the time to write more in-depth articles. 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