Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter on Thursday said his country supported the use of an international commission based in Bern to probe a deadly US air strike on an Afghan hospital.
Doctors Without Borders, which ran the hospital, has called for the Bern-based body to investigate the strike on a hospital in the northern city of Kunduz on October 3, which killed 22 people, including 12 of the medical charity’s staff.
Burkhalter told reporters that Switzerland thought using the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (IHFFC), an independent mechanism created under international law but which has never before been used, was “a good solution”.