Hans-Rudolf Merz

The sanctions imposed on Iran by the UN, EU and US have always looked better on paper than in real life. Their major underlying flaw – not the only…

Switzerland continues to dismay Israel, as its Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey told Swiss RSR Radio on Wednesday that while she recognizes there…

The United Nations on Tuesday said it had expelled a "large number" of members of a Jewish student group from the Durban Review racism conference…

A group of students from the Amit Kfar Batya High School in Raanana held a demonstration Tuesday across from the Swiss Embassy in Tel Aviv in order…

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Tuesday morning that the UN anti-racism conference meeting this week in Geneva was on the right track…

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner on Monday announced that his country would not join Poland, Germany and the Netherlands in boycotting the…

In a radio interview Monday, Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz defended his meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and said criticism was…

Swiss officials defended on Monday the meeting between their President Hans-Rudolf Merz and his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, when the…

President Shimon Peres has added his voice to those condemning the perversion of the nature of the United Nations' World Conference Against Racism,…