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ZURICH, Oct. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO this week jointly convene a cross-section of representatives from the chocolate and cocoa industry, cocoa-producing countries, development agencies, donor groups, non-governmental organizations and cocoa certifying bodies. The gathering, themed "Innovations in Cocoa Sustainability: People, Planet, Profit," will focus on improving efforts to boost incomes, production levels and technology for the world's more than five million cocoa farmers. Host-country Switzerland leads all other nations in per capita consumption of chocolate.
Bill Guyton, president of the World Cocoa Foundation, said that the partnership with SECO was a natural choice for his organization. "...
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Treaties concerning the legal status of the United Nations
Status of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations. Approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 13 February 1946 27
Agreements relating to missions, offices and meetings
(a) Supplementary Agreement to the Agreement between the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and the Government of Chile, signed on 16 February 1953. Santiago, 28 December 2007
(b) Status-of-Forces Agreement between the Republic of Cyprus and the United Nations in connection with the support, supplementation and enhancement of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. New York, 25 February 2008
(c) Exchange of letters constituting an agreement between the United Nation...
... of the International Instrument to Enable States to Identify and Trace, in a Timely and Reliable Ma... represented by the Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) (hereinafter referred to as “the United ...(g) Officials of the United Nations Secretariat;. (h) Other persons invited by the United Nations ...
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In accordance with Sections 3 and 6 of the Clean Diamond Trade Act of 2003 (Pub. L. 108-19) and Section 2 of Executive Order 13312 of July 29, 2003, the Department of State is identifying all the Participants eligible for trade in rough diamonds under the Act, and their respective Importing and Exporting Authorities, and revising the previously published list of December 31, 2008 (73 FR 80506) to add Cambodia, Cameroon, Kazakhstan, and Panama.
... Advisor for Conflict Diamonds, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, Department of State (202) 64...Cameroon--National Permanent Secretariat for the Kimberley Process in Cameroon. Central Afr...
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...Such political affairs could have an impact on Switzerland's status as a ... proved to be very useful as an independent state. For example, the Swiss National Bank bought gold ... Free Trade Agreement of 1972 (State Secretariat for Economic Affairs). . THE SWISS FRANC: TRADING,...
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GENEVA (Reuters) - "Happy Taxation" is a 2011 book by Pascal Broulis, finance minister of the Swiss canton of Vaud and celebrant of the low taxes that distinguish Switzerland. But as times get tougher, discontent about Swiss tax breaks is mounting.
Cash-strapped foreign governments have already chipped away at the secrecy that allows rich individuals to store tax-free funds in Swiss bank accounts. Now Europe's governments have turned the spotlight on the incentives Switzerland offers companies.
...is angry that Switzerland's cantons, or states, compete with each other to attract multinationals...-wing SP party and member of parliament's economic committee. "Effectively this is an admission that ... to estimates from the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs. There could be incentives th...
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..., reimbursements due to be paid to the state, and accountability for those who break the law. M... Bank and funding from the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs. To improve the chamber's wor...
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The Department of State is identifying all the Participating Countries and Entities eligible for trade in rough diamonds under the Clean Diamond Trade Act of 2003, and their respective Importing and Exporting Authorities, and revising the previously published list of December 31, 2008 to add Swaziland.
... Advisor for Conflict Diamonds, Bureau of Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs, Department of State...Mexico--Economic Secretariat. New Zealand--Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trad...
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...i. Economics . According to the most recent data published by tthe State Secretariat for Economic Affairs ('SECO'), the rea...
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... regulation because it demands less of states and intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). Howeve... (IGOs) to control the conduct of economic actors through mandatory legal rules with monitori...) depend on the expertise of IGO secretariats. These are made up of international civil servants..., to avoid interference in foreign affairs, U.S. courts generally presume (absent clear expre...
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KYIV, Ukraine, June 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
The free trade agreement between the EFTA states (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland) and Ukraine came into force on June 1, 2012. Signed in 2010, the document regulates trade in goods and services between the signees, competition in the market, government procurement, investment, and intellectual property rights protection.
... Trade Agreement at the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, suggested that the trade vol...