Cluster: Swiss Abroad

Protecting rights of natural disaster victims

This content was published on Jul 23, 2008 Switzerland’s Walter Kälin, representative of the UN Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, told swissinfo the aim was to reduce the number of victims by better preparing people living in high-risk areas. Working together with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the expert has established guidelines to improve the…

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Government protests against Libyan sanctions

This content was published on Jul 23, 2008 It said that since last Thursday Gaddafi’s government had detained Swiss citizens in Libya, demanded the closure of Swiss firms present in the country and recalled some of its diplomatic representatives to Switzerland. Libya has also stopped processing visa requests from Swiss, and on Wednesday announced that the airline, Swiss, would have to reduce its…

Swiss Politics

Karadzic arrest not simply an issue of revenge

This content was published on Jul 23, 2008 swissinfo talked to political scientist Thomas Fleiner to try to find out what the arrest of Karadzic means in practice. The law professor has acted as an advisor to the Serbian government. Karadzic, who was arrested on Monday, had been on the run for more than a decade, eluding the former chief prosecutor of the…

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Radovan Karadzic arrested in Serbia

This content was published on Jul 22, 2008 Karadzic had been on the run for more than a decade. The failure to catch him had been a source of regret for the former chief prosecutor at the United Nations tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Swiss lawyer Carla Del Ponte. Karadzic was charged with organising the deadly siege of Sarajevo and the 1995 massacre…

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Army chief suspended amid sex scandal charges

This content was published on Jul 21, 2008 It is the latest step in an ongoing controversy over the appointment of Nef as chief commander a year ago and the role of Defence Minister Samuel Schmid. “I asked the chief commander to put an end to the assumptions, rumours and allegations. He has until August 20 to confirm the confidence put in him,”…

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Swiss optimistic ahead of WTO talks

This content was published on Jul 20, 2008 Representatives of World Trade Organization members will attempt to end the so-called Doha round, which calls for cuts to tariffs and subsidies that constrain exports but has stumbled so far on sensitive issues such as agriculture. Leuthard said on Sunday that Switzerland considers the conclusion of the round important. She added that she would fight…

Swiss Politics

Hostage mediator denies Colombian allegations

This content was published on Jul 20, 2008 Gontard told the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper that he had never passed on funds to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) while negotiating the release of two employees of Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Novartis in 2001. Earlier this week, Colombia’s public prosecutor announced there would be a probe into whether the Swiss mediator carried $500,000…

Swiss Politics

No result at Iran nuclear talks

This content was published on Jul 19, 2008 But Tehran’s representatives ruled out on Saturday in Geneva freezing the Iranian programme in talks that included the United States for the first time. EU envoy Javier Solana told reporters after discussions with Iranian negotiator Saeed Jalili that the two would speak either by telephone or personally. “The meeting was constructive, but we didn’t get…

Swiss Politics

Swiss expats push for e-voting

This content was published on Jul 18, 2008 The organisation, which is based in Bern, said the current situation was untenable since Swiss voters abroad were treated like people living in Switzerland. The organisation said many of its members complained that ballot papers often arrived late, were not complete or were sent in the wrong language version. In May a parliamentary committee rejected…

Swiss Politics

Gaddafi’s son released on bail in Geneva

This content was published on Jul 17, 2008 Motassim Bilal Gaddafi, also known as Hannibal Gaddafi, was arrested at the five-star Hotel President Wilson on Tuesday after two of his servants accused him of hitting them, his lawyer Robert Assaël told the Swiss News Agency on Thursday. Geneva magistrate Michel-Alexandre Graber had charged Gaddafi, 32, with inflicting physical injuries and using threats and…

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