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Giuseppe Motta served as President of the Swiss Confederation five times, in 1915, 1920, 1927, 1932, and 1937. He remains one of the longest-serving members of the Swiss Federal Council, with a tenure of twenty-eight years from 1911 until his death in 1940.
Motta became President of the League of Nations Assembly in 1924, having helped bring Switzerland into the League on the 16th of May 1920 alongside Federal Councillor Felix Calonder. He was one of the most outspoken advocates for admitting Germany to the League and, at his suggestion, Switzerland opposed the Soviet Union's admission.
In 1923, the ICRC admitted Motta as one of the first two non-Genevans to join its Assembly; he was also the first Catholic ever admitted. The other non-Genevan admitted at the same time was Max Huber from Zürich.
Motta was affiliated with the Catholic Conservative Party of Switzerland. He was a Catholic-conservative foreign minister and a staunch opponent of communism and Stalinism throughout his career.
The Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury painted two portraits of Motta in the late 1930s. The first, dated 1938, hangs in the Archivio Cantonale in Bellinzona; the second, dated 1939, is held in the Haus Muller-Lombardi in Hospental, Switzerland, as part of the Adolfo Müller-Ury Stiftung.
The Giuseppe Motta Medal is awarded annually since 2004 by the Geneva Institute for Democracy and Development to individuals from any country or region for exceptional achievement in promoting peace and democracy, human rights, and sustainable development.