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Calmy-Rey condemns violence in Libya

This content was published on Feb 28, 2011 Calmy-Rey was speaking alongside the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, as she opened the session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Calmy-Rey, who is also the Swiss foreign minister, said crimes against humanity had been, and continued to be, committed by the Libyan government against its people. “The amount of dead…

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Aid programmes top parliament’s spring bill

This content was published on Feb 28, 2011 The House of Representatives on Monday began discussing a proposal to boost aid payments to 0.5 per cent of Gross National Income – a total of SFr640 million ($690 million) – by 2015, in line with the government and the senate. The house will also debate a controversial plan to contribute SFr12.5 billion towards the…

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Clinton in Geneva to plan for “after Gaddafi”

This content was published on Feb 28, 2011 Speaking to reporters on route to Geneva, Clinton said the United States would lend its help to any plan designed to smooth the transition to a “Libya after Gaddafi”. But she insisted that the US was not involved in any negotiations for the departure of beleaguered Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi. Clinton said the international community…

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Senior Swiss diplomat leaves Libya

This content was published on Feb 28, 2011 “The interim chargé d’affaires is in transit for Switzerland,” the ministry said in a statement on Sunday night. The government will send a new representative to Libya when the security situation in the country has stabilised. Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey said all dual Swiss-Libyan nationals who wished to leave Libya had received assistance from the…

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Government has limited space for refugees

This content was published on Feb 27, 2011 In a newspaper interview, Eveline Gugger Bruckdorfer, a deputy director at the office, said that once the limit was reached migrants would have to be distributed among the cantons. The cantons have in the past weeks been protesting against such a move. “If very many refugees come, we’ll have an absolute emergency situation,” Gugger Bruckdorfer…

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Humanitarian teams sent to Libya borders

This content was published on Feb 27, 2011 Experts will assess the needs on the ground and start emergency measures, a statement said on Saturday evening. The move has the agreement of the Tunisian and Egyptian authorities. The ministry said that people fleeing from the unrest in Libya were arriving in Egypt and Tunisia exhausted and in need of support. The two rapid…

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Swiss “will be cautious” over arms exports

This content was published on Feb 26, 2011 In comments to the Berner Zeitung newspaper published on Saturday, the minister said that despite the unrest spreading across North Africa – and some criticism of Swiss policy – there were no plans to tighten controls on arm exports any further. According to recent figures issued by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco), Swiss…

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UN bares its teeth at Gaddafi

This content was published on Feb 25, 2011 In a special session in Geneva on Friday, the 47-member organisation also called for an international inquiry into human rights violations in the North African country. A resolution presented by the European Union was adopted without opposition, although some states had reservations about the exclusion of Libya, which has been a member since May 2010.…

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Grappling with a refugee influx from Africa

This content was published on Feb 25, 2011 But in an interview with swissinfo.ch, Denise Efionayi-Mäder of the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies at Neuchâtel University warns against overreacting. She points out that Europe must not forget the urgent needs of the people in the countries hit by unrest. With the fall of long-standing regimes in Tunisia and Egypt and what…

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New president aims to unite Kosovo

This content was published on Feb 25, 2011 Pacolli – pronounced Patsolli – spoke to swissinfo.ch, as he was driving around the country on a fact-finding exercise, about smear campaigns in the past and challenges in the future. The 59-year-old controversial construction entrepreneur, whose fortune is estimated at up to SFr1 billion ($1.08 billion), said the country needed to put its recent war…

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