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FILE -- President of the Confederation and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ignazio Cassis, 3rd left, next to Pascale Baeriswyl, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations and the Swiss delegation, casts his ballot while turning his head to Communication Peter Dueggeli taking his picture with a smartphone, during the election of five non permanent members to the Security Council for the period 2023-2024, on Thursday, June 9, 2022 during a General Assembly session at UN headquarters in New York, on Thursday, June 9, 2022 in New York, USA. This coming Sunday, Switzerland will sit on the UN Security Council for the first time in its history - for the years 2023 and 2024. (KEYSTONE/Alessandro della Valle)