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Swiss inch towards closer India ties

This content was published on Nov 7, 2007 Swiss experts must better identify areas of common interest before privileged partnership discussions can resume, Calmy-Rey said at the end of her state visit to India on Wednesday. She hopes this step will be completed next year during the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Friendship Agreement with India. Switzerland will have to wait…

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How the Russian Revolution uprooted the Swiss

This content was published on Nov 7, 2007 The uprising, which brought the communists to power, touched the lives of millions of people in Russia. Thousands of Swiss were among the foreigners caught up in the events. Swiss had been emigrating to Russia in various capacities since the 18th century. Some had gone for a limited period with the intention of returning home…

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Swiss react cautiously to events in Pakistan

This content was published on Nov 6, 2007 Switzerland reacted like many other countries with concern, but the Swiss government has yet to call off the export of arms to Pakistan. Musharraf, who took power in a 1999 coup, has ousted independent-minded judges, put a stranglehold on the media and granted sweeping powers to authorities to crush dissent. Thousands of people have been…

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Foreign ministry adopts green flight plan

This content was published on Nov 6, 2007 The ministry has agreed to buy SFr650,000 ($565,000) of carbon credits from the Malavalli biomass facility to ensure that flights taken by its Bern-based staff will be carbon neutral for the next three years. The carbon credit – or certified emissions reductions – system was set up under the Kyoto Protocol to help developed countries…

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Volatile Kurdistan threatens regional peace

This content was published on Nov 3, 2007 Two Swiss researchers say that that the risk of all-out military action by the Turks against the guerrilla movement is low, but warn that the situation in Iraq remains volatile. “Our objective is to have an Iraq that has stability and safety and that does not create threats for its neighbours,” Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip…

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Justice minister in China for security talks

This content was published on Nov 2, 2007 During an official four-day visit to China, Swiss Justice Minister Christoph Blocher also underlined the importance of respecting the issue of intellectual property rights. Blocher met Zhou Yongkang, the former minister for public security who recently joined the party’s top body, the Politburo Standing Committee, to discuss the importance of sharing information in the fight…

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Swiss unruffled by EU blue card

This content was published on Nov 2, 2007 Employers and authorities in Switzerland, which is not a member of the EU, say they are ready for the competition of the new scheme which, if agreed by EU states, would offer candidates a fast track to obtain work permits. Like Switzerland, the EU’s population is ageing and many member states are caught up in…

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“Land of football boot” to host 2014 World Cup

This content was published on Oct 30, 2007 President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, who was handed the trophy at Fifa headquarters in Zurich, also met Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey to discuss plans for closer cooperation between the two countries. “The executive committee has decided unanimously to give the responsibility, not the right, to organise Fifa’s World Cup 2014 to the country Brazil,”…

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Far-right crushed by success of People’s Party

This content was published on Oct 29, 2007 In its heyday, the far-right group was a political force to be reckoned with, making the curbing of immigration socially acceptable. The Swiss Democrats saw their share of the vote drop below one per cent and lost their only seat in the 200-member House of Representatives in last week’s parliamentary ballot. “We disappeared from the…

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Cuba invites UN envoy from Switzerland

This content was published on Oct 28, 2007 Ziegler, who has been assured full cooperation with the authorities, arrived on Sunday and will stay in the Caribbean republic until November 6 in what is a controversial trip. The Cuban embassy in Geneva sent an invitation to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in June asking for Ziegler in what…

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