Cluster: Swiss Abroad

Swiss approve MMS alarm for missing children

This content was published on Dec 11, 2007 The MMS alarm is a new departure worldwide in the hunt for missing children. Text messaging is already used in Canada, the United States and France. The move is the political response to the abduction and murder of a five-year-old girl in eastern Switzerland earlier this year. The Ylenia case shocked the country and led…

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“This is not the beginning of a new war”

This content was published on Dec 10, 2007 Kurt Spillmann, former director of the Centre for Security Studies at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, thinks Serbia and Russia “will protest and express their anger and frustration” but he doesn’t expect an outbreak of violence. On Monday the newly elected government of Kosovo said it would start immediate talks with its Western…

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Unorthodox challenger eyes cabinet seat

This content was published on Dec 10, 2007 The Green Party senator stands virtually no chance of getting elected, but he has made a mark on parliament over the past four years. Recordon’s appearance is remarkable enough. A tall man with a leonine mane, he is forced to walk slowly and uncertainly on artificial legs: Recordon was born 52 years ago with Holt-Oram…

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Ogi set to leave UN at the end of the year

This content was published on Dec 10, 2007 The 65-year-old Bernese, who took up the job in 2001 at the request of the then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, said in Geneva on Monday that he had tried to promote sport within the UN as a tool for peace. The world body set up about 1,000 projects involving sport during his mandate. Ogi noted…

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New in parliament

This content was published on Dec 10, 2007 Before the opening of the winter session of parliament, newly-elected members of the House of Representatives and Senate met to find out how it all works. (All pictures: Severin Nowacki)

Melting pot

This content was published on Dec 10, 2007 Asylum seekers take part in a six-month training course in the restaurant school “La Cultina” in Bern. Every day they serve up international dishes to around 300 people. The course, subsidised by canton Bern, offers new skills to refugees. Photographer Severin Nowacki visited the multicultural restaurant.

Israeli ambassador attacks Swiss foreign policy

This content was published on Dec 9, 2007 Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey said she was surprised by the criticism, which she indirectly rejected in her speech in Zurich on Sunday at the 50th anniversary of the Switzerland-Israel Society. Speaking in an article in the Aargau Sonntag newspaper, the Israeli ambassador said Swiss interventions over the Iranian nuclear issue were “pointless”. For Israel, Iran…

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“I have learned a lot about the horrors of war”

This content was published on Dec 9, 2007 Del Ponte, who leaves the United Nations post at the end of the year, is to become Swiss ambassador to Argentina. swissinfo: How do you feel about leaving? Carla Del Ponte: I am ready to move on. I have been doing this job for more than eight years and I am looking forward to the…

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Online expert links up with conservatives

This content was published on Dec 7, 2007 The 31-year-old member of the rightwing Swiss People’s Party says she is proof that her party is not just “a club of old men”, as it is often portrayed in the media. Rickli represents Zurich in parliament. She is keen to fight for her political aims, and wants Switzerland to stay out of the European…

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Swiss highlight diplomatic approach over Iran

This content was published on Dec 4, 2007 The US report said with “high confidence” that it believed Iran had halted its nuclear weapons programme in 2003, but that Tehran was continuing to enrich uranium and was keeping its atomic options open. This is in contrast to earlier US assessments that Iran was pushing ahead with its weapons programme, a charge Tehran has…

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