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Leuthard criticises WTO exclusion

This content was published on Jul 25, 2008 WTO talks continued in Geneva on Thursday and focused on tariff reductions, but included only seven major parties: the United States, the European Union, India, Brazil, Japan, Australia, and China. Leuthard aimed her criticism at WTO Director General Pascal Lamy and criticised the composition of the group, which did not include countries that like Switzerland…

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Swiss attempt to defuse tension with Libya

This content was published on Jul 23, 2008 The North African oil-exporting country has recalled some of its diplomats, suspended the issuing of visas for Swiss citizens, cut down flights to Switzerland and detained two Swiss nationals on various charges. “Swiss companies in Libya have received orders to close and some company offices have been sealed,” Markus Börlin, head of the foreign ministry’s…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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