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This content was published on Mar 25, 2009 I met Omar on my last day in England and talked to him about the prospects for young people in Ticino today. (swissinfo.ch)

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Arms exports for Pakistan rejected

This content was published on Mar 25, 2009 The Asian nation was the largest buyer of Swiss arms last year. A spokeswoman for the economics ministry said on Wednesday that Switzerland would reconsider its policy if and when other European countries restarted exporting arms to Pakistan. The cabinet also rejected a request for the export of weapons to Egypt and Saudi Arabia because…

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Foreign minister defends hostage position

This content was published on Mar 25, 2009 Calmy-Rey told the Zurich-based Blick tabloid in an interview published on Wednesday that a crisis unit from the foreign ministry had recently met the family of Andreas Notter. All parties agreed that efforts to free him should be spearheaded by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), she said. Notter was working for the…

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Doctors strike over hard-to-swallow reform

This content was published on Mar 24, 2009 General practitioners (GPs) contest a reduced laboratory tariff scheme designed to save SFr200 million ($177 million) imposed by federal authorities, which GPs say will reduce the quality of healthcare and further destabilise their profession. More than 5,000 angry GPs, medical assistants, laboratory assistants and specialists marched in Lausanne and Geneva on Tuesday in protest. The…

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Hostage’s family calls for Swiss intervention

This content was published on Mar 24, 2009 Andreas Notter is one of three workers of the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) held since January in the Philippines island of Jolo by Abu Sayyaf militants. In an open letter published on Tuesday in the Aargauer Zeitung newspaper, Notter’s family said Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey should call Philippines President Gloria Arroyo…

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Bank secrecy row claims minister’s limousine

This content was published on Mar 24, 2009 Maurer, a member of the rightwing Swiss People’s Party, is sacrificing the German-made S500 sedan as a “temporary protest” in favour of a less luxurious French-built Renault or Peugeot people carrier. Maurer’s move, announced on Sunday, was the latest salvo in an exchange between Swiss politicians and Peer Steinbrück, the German finance minister, who compared…

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Italy proposes mediator role in Libya conflict

This content was published on Mar 24, 2009 Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini told his Swiss counterpart, Micheline Calmy-Rey, that the country was “ready to take on the role” of mediator based on its relationship with the oil-producing North African state. Calmy-Rey on Monday rejected the idea of paying compensation to Libya for the arrest of Hannibal Gaddafi last July and insisted that…

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Secrecy and Libya discussed with Italians

This content was published on Mar 23, 2009 Switzerland has not been invited to attend a meeting of the world’s biggest economies, the G20, in April. In the lead up, Calmy-Rey has been meeting foreign leaders to convey Switzerland’s position on tax treaties and the exchange of bank data. Italy will likely be one of the first countries Switzerland will sit with to…

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Cabinet defends planned electronic passports

This content was published on Mar 23, 2009 She made the statement at the start of a campaign on Monday ahead of a nationwide vote on the issue on May 17. The biometric passports include a chip that stores two fingerprints and the holder’s facial image to be kept in a central database. Widmer-Schlumpf said such a register was reliable and efficient. She…

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