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Swiss FM in Headscarf on Iran Visit Provokes Outcry at Home March 19, 2008 The Associated Press IHT.com GENEVA -- Switzerland's foreign minister, already under fire for a natural gas deal with Iran, also is provoking an outcry at home because she wore a headscarf at the meeting with Iran's hardline president when the accord was signed. "Like a submissive woman," the Lausanne daily tabloid Le Matin said Wednesday in a front-page story showing a photo of Micheline Calmy-Rey wearing a white, semitransparent headscarf. "Calmy-Rey wears the veil of discord," Tribune de Geneve said in its lead headline. Numerous members...

Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey is holding talks in the Middle East on a new emblem for the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. On Saturday she met her Egyptian counterpart and the president of the country's first aid service, before travelling to Israel, the Palestinian Territories and Lebanon. The three-day whirlwind tour of Calmy-Rey is part of efforts by Switzerland - the depositary state of the Geneva Conventions - to find a new humanitarian emblem. Switzerland aims to host a diplomatic conference before the end of the year, which would allow Israel's first aid service, Magen David Adom, to...

Swiss Foreign Minister to visit Israel 6 Feb 2005The Foreign Minister of Switzerland, Micheline Calmy-Rey is interested in learning directly about developments in the peace process, and to meet with the Israeli public. This is Ms. Calmy-Rey’s first visit to Israel. (Communicated by the Foreign Ministry Spokesman) The Foreign Minister of Switzerland, Micheline Calmy-Rey, will arrive in Israel for a visit on Sunday, February 6, as a guest of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom. During the course of the visit, Minister Calmy-Rey will meet with the President of Israel Moshe Katsav, Vice Premier Shimon Peres, Vice Prime...