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Statement by Micheline Calmy-Rey at the 66th UN General Assembly

by Micheline Calmy-Rey

New York (USA) | 21 September 2011

Micheline Calmy-Rey ©UN Photo/Marco Castro
Mr. President of the General Assembly, Distinguished Heads of State and Government, Mr. Secretary-General, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
What development policies should be shaped so that all can benefit?
The Gross Domestic Product (…)

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Costa Rica: The lowest form of military aggression

by Luis Roberto Zamora Bolaños

29 August 2010

On 1 July 2010, Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly authorized the U.S. military to undertake policing duties in Costa Rica, based on an expired “Cooperation Agreement.” There is only one small problem: Costa Rica abolished its armed forces in 1949 and since then has had no standing army, (…)

A Historic Moment:

The Election of the Greatest Con-Man in Recent History

by James Petras

New York (USA) | 12 December 2008

Just as Obama’s electoral campaign and subsequent victory will go into the annals as the political con-job of the new millennium, his economic and political appointments will mark another ‘historic’ moment: The nomination of corrupt and failed speculators and warmongers. Let us join the (…)

France’s AFP News Agency Manipulated Statements by Swiss Foreign Minister Calmy-Rey and Accused her of Trying to Negotiate with Bin Laden

by Sandro Cruz

Geneva (Switzerland) | 27 August 2008

A deplorable action. AFP News Agency (Agence France Presse), one of major world information entities and whose bulletins serve of «raw material» to thousands of daily newspapers around the world, has used honest, sincere and intelligent statements by the head of Helvetic Diplomacy, Micheline (…)