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UN throws open its doors

This content was published on Oct 28, 2001 The UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, may have won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, but the thousands of people who visited the organisation’s European headquarters will have discovered that there is more to the UN’s work than ending wars and delivering aid. “The public see the trees they want to see, but aren’t always aware…

Investigation launched into Russian missile purchase

This content was published on Oct 28, 2001 Samuel Schmid, the defence minister, found out about the weapons two months ago when the army asked to ship them to South Africa in exchange for services to the Swiss air force. Schmid vetoed the deal and ordered an investigation according to the Zurich tabloid, Sonntagsblick. The investigation will be internal and external. Samuel Schmid…

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New accusations against Regli

This content was published on Oct 27, 2001 According to the Defence Ministry’s spokesman, Oswald Sigg, Regli acquired the two weapons of the type SA-18 in the name of the secret service in 1994, which have since been deposited in an army depot. In an interview with the Swiss-German news programme “10 vor 10”, Sigg said it was not clear to him how…

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Switzerland opens new embassy in Slovenia

This content was published on Oct 23, 2001 During the day Deiss met his Slovenian counterpart, Dimitrij Rupel, the Slovenian president, Milan Kucan, and the newly re-elected prime minister, Janez Drnovsek. With Rupel, he discussed the importance of international collaboration in the fight against terrorism with Rupel speaking about his republic’s progress since its independence in 1991 and its efforts to integrate into…

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Illegal immigrants’ supporters continue to occupy churches

This content was published on Oct 22, 2001 On Sunday around 20 people occupied Basel’s St Anthony’s church to demand an end to expulsions from Switzerland and the granting of residency status to the country’s 200,000 illegal immigrants. The occupation has the support of the Social Democratic Party, the Greens, and the construction and industry trade union. Their protest came a day after…

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Zurich’s cathedral occupied by illegal immigrant supporters

This content was published on Oct 20, 2001 The group of protestors, which includes a handful of illegal immigrants, walked into the building at 9.40am on Saturday morning for a 24-hour sit-in. The aim of the peaceful demonstration is to show solidarity with immigrants living in Switzerland, who do not have the required papers to stay in the country. According to a spokesman…

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Zug seeks to fill empty seats

This content was published on Oct 20, 2001 The Radical and Christian Democratic Parties lost respectively six and five parliamentary representatives, after a gunman ran amok in the cantonal parliament, killing 14 people before turning the gun on himself. In seven cases, the succession is expected to follow previously established rules of accession. The communes affected by the change – six in all…

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Mobutu’s Swiss estate finally sold

This content was published on Oct 19, 2001 The villa in Savigny, canton Vaux, went to a Swiss buyer for SFr3.1 million during an auction on Thursday. Local authorities had previously received written offers to the value of SFr2.5 million, the minimum price set at a previous auction, although the property is estimated to be worth considerably more at SFr4.25 million. The villa…

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Switzerland, Germany sign air transport agreement

This content was published on Oct 18, 2001 The head of Switzerland’s Federal Office for Civil Aviation, André Auer, and the German ambassador, Reinhard Hilger, ended a long-standing deadlock marked by more than a dozen rounds of negotiations, when they penned their signatures. The deal, drawn up by Switzerland’s transport minister, Moritz Leuenberger, and his German counterpart, Kurt Bodewig, was agreed in principle…

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Government delays Swisscom decision

This content was published on Oct 17, 2001 A statement from the cabinet office said the government believed there was now less pressure for a quick decision. “Initially, it was expected that consolidation in the telecommunications sector would happen very quickly. In the meantime, a certain soberness has returned to the international telecommunications sector,” it said. It also added that it did not…

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