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Ivory Coast impasse risks a return to violence

This content was published on Dec 7, 2010 Gérard Stoudmann, appointed United Nations envoy for the 2006 Ivory Coast elections by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, says the international community must, with one voice, support the wish of the Ivorian people. Stoudmann’s post was terminated in 2007 by the president, Laurent Gbagbo. On Monday former South African leader Thabo Mbeki failed to settle…

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Swiss-EU problems “must not be dramatised”

This content was published on Dec 6, 2010 Speaking to the media in Brussels on Monday, de Watteville stressed however that the problem must not be dramatised, saying “common elements are stronger than the differences”. Switzerland is not a member of the EU but it has concluded 20 major bilateral agreements with the 27-nation bloc, and another 100 secondary accords since 1972, when…

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Swiss experts downplay Assange asylum chances

This content was published on Dec 6, 2010 In separate developments, the Swiss Pirate Party, which registered the new Wikileaks.ch domain name earlier this year, said the Swiss registrar had confirmed it would not block the site. PostFinance, the financial services arm of Swiss Post, said it was closing Assange’s account. On November 4 the Australian founder of Wikileaks told the Swiss French-language…

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Doctor cleared over assisted suicide

This content was published on Dec 6, 2010 A regional criminal court in Boudry ruled that the doctor had no choice when she took the final step to end the life of a terminally ill patient. Direct active euthanasia is illegal in Switzerland but assisted suicide and passive euthanasia (mercy killing) is not. In this case, the medic had started a lethal drip…

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Geneva gears up for Iran nuclear talks

This content was published on Dec 6, 2010 Iranian nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili is in Geneva on December 6 and 7; talks started on Monday morning with the so-called 5 + 1 group, made up of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France) and Germany. Mohammad-Reza Djalili, a political scientist specialising in the Middle…

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Government rejects anti-gun move

This content was published on Dec 6, 2010 Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga said on Monday that the current gun law was sufficient to protect against misuse and that the initiative would be difficult to put into practice. The people’s initiative, launched by the centre-left Social Democratic Party – Sommaruga’s own party – as well as pacifist and doctors’ organisations, will be put to…

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Swiss-born foreigners face passport hurdles

This content was published on Dec 6, 2010 Switzerland has 350,000 foreign residents born in the country, children or grandchildren of immigrants, the so-called “secondos”. Many regard themselves as Swiss, but do not have a Swiss passport. When the new initiative becomes law, if they commit a crime no difference will be made between such long-term residents and recent arrivals. So why don’t…

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Teddy bear to trigger emotions in gun law vote

This content was published on Dec 5, 2010 The people’s initiative, launched by the centre-left Social Democratic Party, pacifist and medical organisations, will be put to a nationwide vote on February 13. The initiative committee presented its website and slogan, “Protect families – vote yes to prevent gun violence” on Sunday. Pictured is a teddy bear with blood dripping from a bullet hole…

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Ivory Coast travel advisory issued

This content was published on Dec 5, 2010 On December 2, the army closed all border crossings, the Swiss foreign ministry said on its website. Unrest is feared in the country after the presidential candidates, the incumbent Laurent Gbagbo, and his opponent Alassane Ouattara, both declared themselves victorious in a run-off election. Ouattara was initially announced as the winner but the result was…

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Pressure mounts on WikiLeaks and Assange

This content was published on Dec 5, 2010 A spokesman for the office told the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper that the Post was checking to confirm whether Assange has a Swiss residence as he claimed when he opened the account last month. The Post’s Marc Andrey told the newspaper that a foreigner holding a Postfinance account must either reside in Switzerland, near the…

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