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Swiss celebrate National Day

This content was published on Aug 1, 2006 This year’s president, Moritz Leuenberger, said on radio and television that the Swiss were not “indifferent” to the fate of the victims of the Israel-Lebanon conflict. Leuenberger said Switzerland wanted to see an “end to the violence”. The transport minister said the Swiss aspired to live in a country where everyone had a chance to…

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Swiss backstage diplomacy grows over Iran

This content was published on Jul 31, 2006 Iran has asked Bern to organise an international conference to resolve the standoff with the West over Tehran’s nuclear programme, it has been reported. The Swiss foreign ministry and Tehran have so far declined to comment on the report which appeared in the Swiss newspaper, the NZZ am Sonntag. There has, however, been a scurry…

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Deiss confirms his pro-European Union stance

This content was published on Jul 31, 2006 Deiss, aged 60 and a member of the Christian Democratic Party, tells swissinfo that Switzerland’s interests would be better served as a member of the European Union. He says Switzerland should be more aware of its economic power and could contribute more at the political level in today’s globalised world. Deiss also criticises those conservative…

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Top manager enters political fray over asylum

This content was published on Jul 30, 2006 But Rauh – who will make the National Day speech at the Rütli meadow, the nation’s symbolic birthplace in central Switzerland – tells swissinfo that he hasn’t changed his political stripes. Rauh became a household name last January when he wrote a letter to the editor of the “St Galler Tagblatt” newspaper, calling the revision…

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Swiss peacekeeper says UN must stay in Lebanon

This content was published on Jul 29, 2006 Captain Michael Iseli was speaking after UN officials decided on Friday to pull back unarmed observers from patrol bases after Israel earlier this week bombed a UN post, killing four observers. For the time being, UN observers have been relocated to peacekeeping headquarters in Nakura. Iseli, who is a cartographer based in Nakura, said it…

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Radio station advocates free elections in Congo

This content was published on Jul 29, 2006 Despite years of violence and misery, an estimated 25 million Congolese will go to the polls to elect a new president and a parliament on Sunday. It is a long-awaited moment for a country which has suffered years of armed conflict and the rule of the late dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko. If the former Zaire…

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Swiss Lebanese express their indignation

This content was published on Jul 28, 2006 Some focus their anger by collecting money to help their fellow countrymen in Lebanon. While others, who were repatriated to Switzerland, cannot stop thinking about those they left behind. Several tens of thousands of foreigners have been evacuated from Lebanon since the start of the Israeli offensive on July 12. Abdallah El-Chami and his two…

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Lebanon evacuees arrive in Switzerland

This content was published on Jul 24, 2006 The operation came as countries continued efforts to pull out thousands of foreign nationals fleeing intense fighting between Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants. Two aircraft landed late Sunday evening with 188 passengers, while the third plane arrived early Monday morning carrying another 156 Swiss. Representatives of the foreign ministry were on hand to meet them…

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Lebanon ceasefire

This content was published on Jul 21, 2006 Peace efforts take centre stage as guns fall silent

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Lebanon waits for peacekeepers

This content was published on Jul 21, 2006 The conflict has exposed contradictions and biases in many countries’ foreign policies, not least in Switzerland, where the politicians are divided over how “neutral” Switzerland should respond.

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