
Tobias Privitelli
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On a sunny walk back from the United Nations Geneva Palais des Nations this morning, we're thankful for our exchange with Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of UN Geneva. It means a lot to hear that the United Nations values our work and sees the GICHD as an important center of expertise for mine affected countries.






Great seeing #Swiss Ambassador & GICHD Director Tobias Privitelli engaging with our colleagues at the Mine Detection Dog Center in BiH

Pleasure to welcome Ambassador Tobias Privitelli, Director of GICHD, to discuss collaboration with UNDP in Bosnia and Herzegovina on demining work & support to #BosniaHerzegovina 🇧🇦 on mine action. More work to be done to free BiH of landmines United Nations BiH Ministarstvo civilnih poslova Bosne i Hercegovine Bosnia and Herzegovina Mine Action Center BHMAC



High Representative Christian Schmidt delivered a laudatory speech at the "Peacemaker of the Century" award ceremony, honouring former U.S. President Bill Clinton. He praised Clinton’s outstanding contributions to peacemaking, including the Dayton Peace Agreement, which ended


We met with Izumi Nakamitsu United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs. We're proud of our strong partnership with ODA & support to #UNSaferGuard. Ammunition management plays a critical role in advancing human security, sustainable peace and global stability.


Ravie d’avoir échangé avec l’Ambassadeur Tobias Privitelli, Directeur du @GICHD, sur les enjeux du déminage humanitaire, les défis en Arménie et l’importance d’une coopération renforcée. Un échange d’autant plus symbolique en cette Journée internationale de la sensibilisation aux


90% of cluster munition victims are civilians. At the 2025 convention on cluster munitions #CCM Intersessional meeting in #Geneva, GICHD Director Tobias Privitelli calls for renewed urgency to uphold the Convention on Cluster Munitions and protect lives.


Dep. Minister of Economy, Ihor Bezkaravainyi of Ukraine, & Amb. @Tprivitelli, GICHD Director welcomed participants as the co-hosts of the event. Thank you 🇨🇦 Global Affairs Canada 🇩🇪 GermanForeignOffice 🇯🇵 MOFA of Japan &🇨🇭 Swiss MFA for supporting this workshop.


Tobias Privitelli joined global leaders at the Mine Action Support Group meeting—an international forum advancing coordination and support for the humanitarian mine action sector. As observer, we're proud to support and contribute by sharing info. Thank you Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office 🇬🇧 for chairing!



🇧🇯 In Benin, our Director Tobias Privitelli met CPADD 🇧🇯🇫🇷’s Lt-Col Sahgui & national/international partners including Swiss Development and Cooperation🇨🇭to boost mine action ties. He also opened a 2-week Francophone explosive ordnance risk education training at CPADD supported by donors 🇩🇪 🇳🇴 🇮🇹 .



#Geneva: Great meeting between our Director, Tobias Privitelli and Dominique Burgeon, Director of FAOGeneva and team. We discussed our joint work in #Ukraine, including research on explosive ordnance and food security, and the potential for deeper collaboration globally.


Today Tobias Privitelli welcomed Tim Lardner, Director, Europe and Central Asia Region UNOPS. We gave an overview of our humanitarian demining activities in Europe & Central Asia, and talked about our joint missions around providing meaningful technical expertise to countries.
