He also expressed his gratitude to the authorities of the Swiss Federation and of the Republic and Canton of Geneva for all they had done in providing the Convention secretariat with a supportive working environment in the city of Geneva.

Summary by the Chairperson, Ms. Ruth Dreifuss, Federal Councillor and Head of the Federal Department of the Interior of Switzerland

The research is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation as well as by the Cantonal and Federal Governments.

In view of article 2 of the Law on Embargoes of 22 March 2002,

Switzerland explained that the Federal Court (the Supreme Court of Switzerland) oversaw the constitutionality of cantonal law and of orders (regulations of a general nature or based on objective standards) issued by the Federal Council (the Government of Switzerland).

Robert Fischer (Switzerland), Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, Basel

Christian Stamm (Switzerland), Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, Bern

Recueil systématique du droit federal suisse, RS 0.192.120.282.

The informal round table to be convened by the President would be chaired by Ms. Ruth Dreifuss, Federal Councillor and Head of the Federal Department of the Interior of Switzerland.

Under the Federal Law on War Materiel, the manufacture, brokering, export and transit of war materiel are subject to authorization by the Swiss Government.

TFG Transitional Federal Government

57 1. Admission of the Swiss Confederation to membership in the United Nations

Decides to admit the Swiss Confederation to membership in the United Nations.

Offer of the Government of Switzerland

76. In 1997, the Government of Switzerland contributed 2,700,000 Swiss francs (Sw F).

In addition, China added that, according to the police authorities of Switzerland, the device was prohibited under federal law.

A donation by the Government of Switzerland and a Swiss non governmental organization are funding some of the operations.

On 27 April 1998, the Swiss Federal Council decided that

14.30 Meeting with Ms. Cornelia Schmalz Jacobsen, Member of the German Bundestag and Federal Government Commissioner for Foreigners

Expression of gratitude to the Government of Switzerland

Expression of gratitude to the Government of Switzerland.

Deputy Director, Swiss Federal Tax Administration head, Division for International Fiscal Law and Double Taxation Matters.

Regional centres under the Basel Convention (Swiss Confederation) 258 086 Financing of professional officers 191 154

His Excellency Mr. Samuel Schmid, President of the Swiss Confederation

On 25 May 2005 the Swiss Federal Council adopted an ordinance instituting measures against the Sudan (hereinafter the ordinance , a copy of which is attached).

Netherlands Humanist Committee on Human Rights

In addition, it has advised various national agencies and non governmental organizations which regularly organize human rights education and public information campaigns, such as the Federal Commission against Racism, the Swiss Foundation Education and Development and the Swiss League for Human Rights.

Government of Sweden, United Nations

Having considered the application for membership of the Swiss Confederation,A 56 1009 S 2002 801, annex.

FEDERATION OF B H GOVERNMENT,

11. Thank the Government of the Swiss Confederation for its contribution to the work of the second session of the Conference of the Parties in Geneva and look forward to meeting again at the third session in Kyoto, in 1997, thanks to the generous offer of the Government of Japan.

The Federal and State Governments are secular in this country.

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45. The Federal Department of the Interior of Switzerland informed the Office that it has appealed to the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Directors of Public Education to enhance human rights education in schools.

This would ensure continuous updating and modernizing of the headquarters agreements following, for example, the current practice of the Swiss Federal Government (Special Rapporteur's italics).

Mr. Samuel Schmid, the President of the Confederation, will be signing the Convention at the summit of heads of State and government to be held in New York in September 2005.

Government of Sweden and United Nations

Nine years later, the Swiss Federal Council, in its message to the Federal Assembly on 28 July 1955, again referred to the legal status in Switzerland of the United Nations, its specialized agencies and other international organizations (FF 1955 II 389, 393).

The model for a future United States of Europe is Switzerland, a country with four languages and ethnicities, fiscally strong sub national units (cantons), a single first rate currency, and a federal government and a parliament that exercises genuine, if limited, fiscal authority.

The Government of the Russian Federation

Transitional Federal Government

In 2002, the Swiss Parliament enacted the Federal Act on the Implementation of International Sanctions, which explicitly authorizes the Government to enact compulsory measures in order to implement sanctions that have been imposed by the United Nations, by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe or by Switzerland's most significant trading partners.

29. In addition to the voluntary contribution in cash to the UNOMIG Special Account already reported in the amount of 400,000 Swiss francs (equivalent to 327,600) from the Government of Switzerland, an additional contribution of 513 has been received from the Government of Cyprus.

VI. THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

69. In 1997, the emergency assistance by the Government of Switzerland to Somalia was 3,838,885 Swiss francs.