{"id":15078,"date":"2023-03-18T15:09:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T15:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/swiss-lawmakers-call-on-uefa-to-ban-belarus-from-euro-2024"},"modified":"2023-03-18T15:57:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T15:57:54","slug":"swiss-lawmakers-call-on-uefa-to-ban-belarus-from-euro-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/swiss-lawmakers-call-on-uefa-to-ban-belarus-from-euro-2024","title":{"rendered":"Swiss lawmakers call on UEFA to ban Belarus from Euro 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span>A group of Swiss parliamentarians has written an open letter to the UEFA president, saying that the Euro 2024 football qualifying match between Belarus and Switzerland scheduled for March 25 &#8220;must not take place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; The letter to Aleksander Ceferin of Slovenia is signed by 30 members of both houses of the Swiss parliament from 13 of the 26 Swiss cantons.<\/p>\n<p>They called on the European football body to exclude Belarus from the 2024 European football championship, according to the human rights organization Libereco.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That the Swiss national team should play in a European Championship qualifying match against the team of a country responsible for the most serious human rights violations and supports the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine is something we cannot condone,&#8221; the letter read.<\/p>\n<p>While UEFA has excluded Russia from all competitions, Belarus is still allowed to participate, said Lars Bunger, president of Libereco Switzerland. 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A group of Swiss parliamentarians has written an open letter to the UEFA president, saying that the Euro 2024 football qualifying match between Belarus and Switzerland scheduled for March 25 &#8220;must not take place. &#8221; The letter to Aleksander Ceferin of Slovenia is signed by 30 members of both houses of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":15077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[242,243,233],"class_list":["post-15078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-eritrea","tag-eritrea"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Swiss lawmakers call on UEFA to ban Belarus from Euro 2024 - Eritrea<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A group of Swiss parliamentarians has written an open letter to the UEFA president, saying that the Euro 2024 football q ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/swiss-lawmakers-call-on-uefa-to-ban-belarus-from-euro-2024\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Swiss lawmakers call on UEFA to ban Belarus from Euro 2024\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A group of Swiss parliamentarians has written an open letter to the UEFA president, saying that the Euro 2024 football q ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/swiss-lawmakers-call-on-uefa-to-ban-belarus-from-euro-2024\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Eritrea\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-03-18T15:09:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-03-18T15:57:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1679139687.28.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"864\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"486\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/swiss-lawmakers-call-on-uefa-to-ban-belarus-from-euro-2024#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/swiss-lawmakers-call-on-uefa-to-ban-belarus-from-euro-2024\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Swiss lawmakers call on UEFA to ban Belarus from Euro 2024\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-03-18T15:09:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-03-18T15:57:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/swiss-lawmakers-call-on-uefa-to-ban-belarus-from-euro-2024\"},\"wordCount\":247,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/swiss-lawmakers-call-on-uefa-to-ban-belarus-from-euro-2024#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1679139687.28.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Eritrea\",\"Eritrea\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/swiss-lawmakers-call-on-uefa-to-ban-belarus-from-euro-2024#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/swiss-lawmakers-call-on-uefa-to-ban-belarus-from-euro-2024\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/swiss-lawmakers-call-on-uefa-to-ban-belarus-from-euro-2024\",\"name\":\"Swiss lawmakers call on UEFA to ban Belarus from Euro 2024 - 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