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Yemen faces the abyss

This content was published on Jan 17, 2010 The Swiss-Yemeni political scientist, Elham Manea, tells swissinfo.ch that the country on the Arabian Peninsula could collapse. Yemen, Manea says, desperately needs help and Switzerland can contribute to improving the situation in the troubled nation. swissinfo.ch: The government has huge problems to deal with at home: a rebellion in the north, a separatist revolt in…

Swiss plane lands with medicines for Haiti

This content was published on Jan 16, 2010 The aid consists of first aid kits, medical material and medicines, shelters and generators, a spokesman for the foreign ministry told the Swiss News Agency. A second plane will leave Switzerland with more aid on Monday, he added. A total of 41 Swiss experts are also on the ground in the region. Of these, 25…

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Russia ratifies key European court reform

This content was published on Jan 15, 2010 Friday’s ratification is a positive sign for Switzerland, which has presided over the Council of Europe since November. The lower house of Russia’s parliament, the Duma, ratified the protocol with 392 votes in favour and 56 opposed, reversing its previous rejection of the protocol in 2006. Russia was the last member of the 47-nation Council…

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Veteran diplomat to take on financial headache

This content was published on Jan 15, 2010 Occupying the top post in a newly created department, Ambühl will effectively become the number-two man in the finance ministry when he begins his tenure as State Secretary for International Financial and Tax Matters on March 1. The move, widely welcomed by the media, academics and financial industry watchers, will see the 59-year-old career diplomat…

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Swiss aid begins to arrive in Haiti

This content was published on Jan 15, 2010 A second team would arrive later on Friday, said Toni Frisch, the head of the humanitarian aid unit at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. A third aircraft carrying medical specialists and 33 tons of relief supplies is also scheduled to leave Switzerland on Friday, the foreign ministry said, followed by a second relief…

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Diaspora wants a say in Haiti’s future

This content was published on Jan 15, 2010 Many of them will be gathering in Lausanne on Saturday, to exchange news and consider the best ways to organise aid now. They will also be discussing what needs to happen in the long term, how Haitians abroad can become more involved in the country’s affairs. Jean-Wilfrid Fils-Aimé, secretary general of the Swiss Haitian Club,…

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Swiss seek sustainable aid for Haiti

This content was published on Jan 14, 2010 She said it was important to provide help efficiently and not to stage an event in the media limelight. Calmy-Rey added that there was no information on possible Swiss victims of the powerful earthquake that hit the Caribbean island on Tuesday. A number of Swiss tourists are currently in Haiti. Switzerland decided not to send…

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Swiss citizenship for Chile’s Frei criticised

This content was published on Jan 14, 2010 Ahead of Sunday’s presidential election run-off in the South American country, Frei revealed his newly acquired Swiss nationality. Critics have described the naturalisation of the 67-year-old Frei – whose father also served as president of Chile in the 1960s – as a violation of equal rights standards and an act of arbitrariness. Parliamentarians from the…

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Earthquake guts already battered Haiti

This content was published on Jan 13, 2010 Swiss aid and development organisations tell swissinfo.ch about the difficulties of responding to an emergency in a country that is no stranger to natural disasters. “If you’re active in Haiti, you learn that you can’t plan in the long term because there are always setbacks,” Mattias Herfeldt from Swiss development organisation Helvetas told swissinfo.ch. For…

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Haiti relief effort underway

This content was published on Jan 13, 2010 Haiti’s worst quake in more than 100 years, measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale, struck late in the afternoon local time about 16 kilometres southwest of the capital Port-au-Prince, followed by numerous aftershocks. The Geneva-based International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and United Nations agencies said they were mobilising dozens of disaster response teams,…

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