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Swiss take stock of World Social Forum

This content was published on Feb 11, 2011 While there were organisational problems at the beginning of the meeting, debates were fruitful and the Swiss delegation saw for itself some of the pressing issues affecting Africa. “This forum has been an opportunity to make contacts and has been a source of information,” said centre-left Social Democrat politician Margret Kiener Nellen.“It’s a unique meeting,…

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Why young women shun the ballot box

This content was published on Feb 11, 2011 A survey found that since securing the vote in 1971 the number of women aged 18-29 who cast a ballot has fallen by one third from 38 to 26 per cent. swissinfo.ch carried out a mini straw poll to find out why. The results come shortly before a nationwide vote on Sunday on whether to…

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Egyptian protestors furious as Mubarak stays on

This content was published on Feb 10, 2011 In a widely anticipated speech on Egyptian television on Thursday evening Mubarak said he would not step down until an elected government could take over after elections in September. The hundreds of thousands of protestors who had gathered in and around Cairo’s Tahrir Square greeted his speech with dismay. They changed “Down, down with Hosni…

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Egypt’s fate seen in the hands of the military

This content was published on Feb 9, 2011 Albert Stahel, a strategy expert at Zurich University, told swissinfo.ch the army has defined the recent history of Egypt and it will hold the key for the future of the country. It might have come as a surprise that from the outset of the anti-government demonstrations on January 25 the army pledged not to fire…

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Editor protests at journalist’s arrest in Cairo

This content was published on Feb 9, 2011 The French-language magazine’s editor-in-chief complained that the journalist was arrested and threatened with death by Egyptian army and government soldiers. The incident took place on February 3, a day when numerous foreign journalists were attacked and arrested. In the letter to the Egyptian ambassador, Alain Jeannet wrote: “The bad treatment he suffered for five hours…

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Minds fail to meet in “lively” Brussels talks

This content was published on Feb 8, 2011 Calmy-Rey was speaking after talks at which she hoped to persuade Switzerland’s EU partners to embark on a new round of negotiations aimed at concluding a third bilateral package of agreements between the two sides. She started her day with a meeting with Jerzy Buzek, speaker of the European parliament, then met José Manuel Barroso,…

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“A stable world is in everyone’s interests”

This content was published on Feb 8, 2011 Claude Wild is head of a political division within the foreign ministry concerned with religion, politics and conflict. On January 6 an attack outside a Coptic church in Alexandria, Egypt, killed 23 people and left dozens wounded. And Iraq is experiencing an exodus of Christians following attacks there at the end of last year. swissinfo.ch:…

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Swiss laud Sudan’s “peaceful” referendum

This content was published on Feb 7, 2011 Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey said the vote was an “important political step towards the creation of lasting peace”, in a statement issued on Monday. Southern Sudan voted overwhelmingly to declare independence in final results of a referendum announced on Monday. A total of 98.83 per cent of voters from Sudan’s oil-producing south chose to secede…

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Calmy-Rey to push for Bilaterals III with EU

This content was published on Feb 7, 2011 Switzerland is confident that a third round of bilateral treaties is possible. But the European Union has said it wants a more comprehensive agreement and automatic acceptance of changes in EU legislation, which the Swiss reject. During her visit to the Belgium capital for exploratory talks, the foreign minister is due to meet the European…

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