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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Last updated October 8, 2008 1:44 p.m. PTLibya again stops oil deliveries to SwitzerlandGENEVA -- Libya's state-owned oil company said that it stopped crude deliveries to Switzerland on Wednesday, three months after the arrest of Moammar Gadhafi's son in Geneva sparked a diplomatic crisis.Tamoil Switzerland spokesman Laurent Paoliello declined to answer questions about the decision.Swiss foreign...
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
GENEVA (Reuters) - Seventeen countries have agreed on rules to ensure that private military companies operating in war zones do not break international humanitarian law or abuse human rights, a senior Swiss diplomat said on Wednesday.
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Hunt of the Sea Wolves (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
IC Publications Iraq and the United States are among 17 states that have agreed to a new series of recommendations on the use of private military and security firms, the Red Cross said Wednesday, The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) presented the so-called Montreux document at a joint press conference with the Swiss foreign ministry, [...]
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CICR (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
They have also reaffirmed the obligations of States to ensure that these private contractors abide by international humanitarian law.The document was finalized today by governmental and other experts who had been meeting since 15 September in Montreux, Switzerland, at the invitation of the Swiss government. This was the fourth intergovernmental meeting under the initiative on private military...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
A Namibian light tour plane made an emergency landing this weekend, killing one Swiss passenger and injured four others, the Swiss Foreign Ministry said Monday. Swiss Media said the plane was forced to make an emergency landing due to engine failure shortly after taking off from Namibia's capital Windhoek. The plane had a bad collision on the ground before landing...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Geneva - Two domestic servants employed by Hannibal Gaddafi, youngest son of Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi, have dropped legal action they brought against their employer and his wife, it was stated Tuesday. Francois Membrez, a lawyer representing the two, said his clients were dropping their legal action alleging Hannibal Gaddafi inflicted physical injury on them and threatened them. The Swiss...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Switzerland will send up to eight unarmed military observers to Georgia as part of a mission with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Swiss foreign ministry said on Wednesday. The OSCE will increase its presence in the buffer zone between the former Soviet republic and its breakaway region of South Ossetia by 20 to 100 personnel, the foreign...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
The Swiss government is continuing its efforts to solve the problems besetting bilateral relations with Libya, the Swiss Foreign Ministry said on Friday. The two countries consider that it is necessary to continue the discussions at the bilateral level and through diplomatic channels, the ministry said in a statement. But at the moment it is not possible to say when...
