Tasnim Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli travelled to Geneva to attend the 70th session of the Executive Committee (ExCom) of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Rahmani Fazli is going to give an address to the annual meeting of the UNHCRs governing Executive Committee.
The Iranian minister is also planned ...
Sputnik - Switzerland supports any effort to resolve the tense Iran nuclear situation and is ready to host talks to this end, as the country has done many times before, Tobias Privitelli, the deputy head of the Swiss diplomatic mission in Russia, said.
"We fully support the JCPOA [the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or the Iran nuclear deal]....
Financial Times - Switzerland is close to launching an initiative to let companies sell food, medicine and medical devices to Iran using a payments channel that would be the first such mechanism to win Washingtons approval since it reimposed sanctions against Tehran.
Berns humanitarian supplies plan which is the subject of delicate ongoing talks ...
Reuters - Neutral Switzerland's embassies in Riyadh and Tehran have signed agreements to represent Iranian interests in Saudi Arabia and Saudi interests in Iran, the Swiss government said on Wednesday.
After the Middle Eastern rivals severed relations at the beginning of January 2016, both countries agreed to Switzerland's offer of its traditional ...
IRNA | Abdollah Heidari: Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif on Monday received Qatai envoy Ahmed Ali al-Sulaiti and ambassadors of Switzerland, Norway and Greece in Tehran to receive a copy of their credentials.
IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif on Monday received ambassadors of Switzerland, Norway and Greece in Tehran to receive a copy of their credentials.
The three diplomats met with Zarif at the commencement of their ambassadorial mission.
IRNA Deputy director of Swiss province Canton Ticinos Chamber of Commerce said that Iran is largely different from what it is portrayed in the West.
Marco Pasalia, also in charge of the entitys exports affairs in the province in southern Switzerland, made the remarks after a recent visit to Iran along with a 20-member delegation comprising Canton ...
IRNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrived in Zurich, Switzerland to attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos.
Zarif was welcomed by Iranian Charge d'affaires in Bern Mehdi Abedi.
Foreign Minister Zarif is scheduled to deliver a speech at World Economic Forum meeting in Davos on Wednesday.
The WEF meeting will last for ...
Press TV- A European court has ruled that Muslim girls must take part in mixed school swimming classes after rejecting a case by a Turkish-Swiss couple who had requested that their daughters be exempted from such activities.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday accepted that the refusal by Swiss authorities to excuse children ...
Participants of the international ministerial meeting on Syrian settlement, which was held earlier in the day in Swiss Lausanne, reached consensus on key issues including the necessity to restore the ceasefire, the US Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) Kerry said the talks were a candid brainstorming session, according ...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) -- Back where they started, the United States, Russia and others trying to mediate Syria's civil war spent 4 hours searching for a diplomatic process that could succeed where last month's collapsed cease-fire failed. It wasn't clear whether they made any progress.
With the Syrian and Russian governments pressing an offensive ...
Talks have begun in the Swiss city of Lausanne on a resolution to the crisis in Syria, with US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in attendance. Diplomats from Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia were also present.
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Irans top renewable-energy authority denied that its signed any agreement covering electricity generation projects with a Swiss developer that has said it obtained power-purchase agreements for 370 megawatts of installations.
The Renewable Energy Organization of Iran, which is known as Suna, hasnt signed any deal with MECI Group International, said ...
Switzerlands highest court has rejected an appeal by an Israeli company against a verdict to pay Iran money owed over a joint venture set up before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
A pipeline was jointly set up by the deposed regime of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Irans last monarch and the Israeli companyEilat-Ashkelon Pipeline Co. (EAPC)in 1968 to ...
TEHRAN, Jun. 13 (MNA) Iranian traditional vocalist Alireza Ghorbani and a number of musicians have departed for Switzerland to attend the 8th Lenzburgiade Classic and Folk International Music Festival.
This highly prestigious European music festival is slated for 14-19 June, 2016 in the city of Lenzburgin Switzerland. Alireza Ghorbani together ...
Regional authorities in Switzerland have ruled that if Muslim students refuse to shake their teacher's hand at the beginning and end of lessons, their parents will face fines of up to 5,000 Swiss francs (around $5,000).
The new ruling overturned a controversial decision by a school in northern Therwil municipality, in the district of Arlesheim ...
TEHRAN, Mar. 15 (MNA) The 3rd Europe-Iran Forum will be held on May 3-4, 2016 in Zrich, Switzerland to determine economic potential of the Nordic countries.
The third Europe-IranForum will offer a new and innovative program designed to balance high-level networking opportunities with panels and industry-focused workshops of real practical value....
TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari announced on Monday that the presidents of Azerbaijan Republic, Switzerland, and South Africa will arrive in the Iranian capital in the next few days.
Speaking in his weekly press conference, Jaberi Ansari said that Azeri President Ilham Aliyev will be here in Tehran on ...
TEHRAN, Feb. 22 (MNA) President of Switzerland Johann Schneider-Ammann will visit Iran on 26-28 Feb. according to French-language RTS news website.
Swiss President Johann Schneider-Ammann accompanied by some 40 investors is scheduled to visit Iran on 26-28 February with an aim to expand Bern-Tehran economic relations following the removal of ...
Tehran, Feb 14, IRNA - Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir in a press conference with his Swiss counterpart Didier Burkhalter in Riyadh said on Sunday that Switzerland will act for Saudi interest section in Tehran.
According to Al Arabiya News Channel, Switzerland will take care of Saudi consulate affairs in Iran and the Iranian pilgrims should ...