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Background: The Swiss Confederation was founded in 1291 as a defensive alliance among three cantons. In succeeding years, other localities joined the original three. The Swiss Confederation secured its independence from the Holy Roman Empire in 1499. Switzerland's sovreignty and neutrality have long been honored by the major European powers, and the country was not involved in either of the two World Wars. The political and economic integration of Europe over the past half century, as well as Switzerland's role in many UN and international organizations, has strengthened Switzerland's ties with its neighbors. However, the country did not officially become a UN member until 2002. Switzerland remains active in many UN and international organizations, but retains a strong commitment to neutrality.

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By KHALEH NAZ
November 16th 2009

SWITZERLAND-GENEVA-1112 THRU 1115 Europe » Switzerland » South-West » Geneva

Photo 2

The TGV train ride from Gare De Lyon of Paris to Geneva is a beautiful one...It goes thru fields, forests, lakes, and mountains...It was a smooth and pleasurable ride... I arrived in Geneva at 2:30 pm and met my cousin S at the Station...She took me to the UN headquarters where I took a tour of the Palace of Nations...It was a very interesting and informative one hour tour... Geneva is a beautiful small city with a very international crowd...It is geographically well situated, surrounded by the Alps and Jura mountain ranges (with a view of the Mont Blanc peak), adjacent [View Full Entry]

By Beebe
October 21st 2009

I Get to Speak French for a Few Hours Europe » Switzerland » South-West » Geneva

Lake Maggiore

Day One Geneva to Milan But now we're in Italy....and I can't yet speak Italian...frustration again! We started this trip with a late taxi, but that has been the only problem...and we still got to the airport in plenty of time...Everyone we dealt with has been extra nice from the United ticket agent to the train conductors. We've had no one bother us or ask us for anything! Not even one taxi driver has approached us! We were able to travel in business class from DC to Geneva, so that was quite wonderful...the seats moved to a completely flat position for [View Full Entry]

By Nate Webster
September 28th 2009

Herald Standard Article + Geneva Europe » Switzerland » South-West » Geneva

Sit In

Weekend in Geneva was fantastic. The beautiful autumn weather has arrived. Below is an op/ed I wrote for the hometown newspaper. ----- The elderly French woman looked at me, before saying a word to the class, and asked to the sole American in the cosmopolitan class of students, what is your country's health-care system? This was the day after yet another proclamation about the state of our nation's health-care system that made international headlines. She wanted to try to make sense of our health-care "crisis." So do I. I had many opinions I wanted to share, but chose my word [View Full Entry]

By mylescreed
August 19th 2009

Greece to Geneva in a day...jk Europe » Switzerland » South-West » Geneva

Hell all! I am now in the beautiful city of Genevè, Switzerland. And I realize I have not blogged for a long time. So here goes....Last time I blogged we were in Greece...which was actually only two days ago... Well, first of all we took a train, actually towards North to Ancona, Italy to catch a ferry boat to Greece. And then once on the boat we explored the deck, went swimming (in the worlds smallest swimming pool...still fun tho :P) and slept on the floor of the deck...which was actually pretty fun as well...we watched a beautiful sunset late at [View Full Entry]

By Mmirag
July 7th 2009

Geneva Europe » Switzerland » South-West » Geneva

Well decided to skip ut a day early from Interlaken because it was raining and was not going to clear up. Spluged last night and got a hotel in Lausanne. Not a bad little city with some hills and I stayed right near the Big Cathederal--Notre Dame I believe. It is more of a student/university city, but it has a nice old city area with some shopping and nice bars/restaurants. I ended up eating a kebab for lunch and one for dinner--$10 each and they were $3 in Greece. Hey, it is good for me because I am making myself eat [View Full Entry]

By emmaingeneva
June 30th 2009

I'm here!! Europe » Switzerland » South-West » Geneva

So, after all the planning, stressing, list making and packing i'm here :) I arrived at about 4pm yesterday - flight was delayed by an hour and a half but somehow we made up that half an hour somewhere! After getting off the plane and making my way through the passport check (it was quicker for me with my EU passport) i went to the baggage carousel and sat myself down to wait for my suitcase, still a bit groggy from the travel sickness tablets. As soon as my bum hit the floor however, it started moving and there was my [View Full Entry]

By JanetJD
June 27th 2009

UN week Europe » Switzerland » South-West » Geneva

After a week of early mornings at the UN, you would think I would sleep in today! No such luck. Woke up at 5:30 for a reason unbeknown to me and was out of bed by 8. Maybe its all the built-up excitement of planning my Italy trip today, or maybe I just am programmed from the week... who knows! We had a very busy past week, spending every day at the UN except for Tuesday. We had seminars with the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR), the WTO, the UN Development [View Full Entry]

By JanetJD
June 21st 2009

un... deux... un, deux, trois, quatre! Europe » Switzerland » South-West » Geneva

Group photo 1

This weekend has been wonderful! Yesterday afternoon, a group of us met in Geneva, then took a bus to Mount Saleve, which was our first expedition to France... just across the border! We took a gondola up to the top of the mountain and soaked in the view. The weather was a little cloudy, but when the sun periodically poked through, it was beautiful. From atop the mountain, we could see the entire city of Geneva and the lake stretching on into the north. It was somewhat chilly, but from years of childhood experience (Enchanted Rock etc.), I cam prepared while [View Full Entry]

By calaquendi
June 20th 2009

Croisière sur le Lac Léman Europe » Switzerland » South-West » Geneva

Yawen sur le bateau

Pour notre premier jour en Suisse nous sommes... retournées en France! En fait, nous sommes allé faire une croisière sur le lac Léman et une bonne partie de la rive sud est francaise. Après 10 min a pied, nous sommes rendues au port de Coppet (c'est à dire un quai et un petit café). Comme nous avions une demie heure d'avance sur notre bateau, nous avons fait le tour du village. Le village comme tel est constitué d'une seule rue de belles batisses du bourg médiéval. Il y a plusieures petites boutiques, une pharmacie, une épicerie, un boucher, deux chocolatier-patissier, etc. [View Full Entry]

By calaquendi
June 19th 2009

Le train vers la Suisse Europe » Switzerland » South-West » Geneva

Gare de Lyon

Aujourd'hui était la journée du train Paris-Genève. Nous avons fait la grâce matinée (enfin, nous commençions à être épuisées la!) et sommes allées manger une crèpe pour déjeuner avant de se rendre a la gare de Lyon prendre le train que nous avons trouvé sans problème. Le trajet a duré 3h20. Au début, nous n'allions pas si vite, mais après un moment, quand on réalise que nous dépassons les voitures de l'autoroute a toute allure, on réalise qu'on va très très vite! Le cousin de Yawen nous attendait à la gare comme prévu et nous a amené prendre le train vers [View Full Entry]

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