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Albania and Switzerland sign 2 agreements of 8.2 mln Euro

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Deputy Prime Minister, Senida Mesi, received on Friday Ambassador Ruth Huber, the Head of Cooperation with Eastern Europe at the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

During the meeting they signed two agreements that provide funding and technical support in the areas of governance and economy: the first one for the Decentralisation and Local Development Programme (dldp) and the second one for RisiAlbania, a youth employment programme. Both projects amount to just over 8.2 million Euro and are extensions of previous phases of Swiss support for Albania. The interlocutors discussed also about Swiss government support regarding civil emergency and natural disaster cases. After the signing of the two agreements, in her greeting speech Mesi stressing the long-term cooperation of more than 25 years of Albania with Switzerland, underlined the two projects as very important and with successful results in their previous phases.

Among others Mesi expressed special thanks for the Swiss Cooperation Strategy 2018-2021 which was presented a few weeks ago and emphasized that the long-term cooperation between the two countries is a crear indication that the Swiss government is there to help and support Albania in all its initiatives and that the latter is fully engaged to reach the objectives.

 

Swiss experts to help development of five domestic companies

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Positive experiences of companies, experts’ satisfaction and the visible results are strong evidence of the success of the advertisement announced by the Macedonian government to engage foreign experts that will help our local companies. Cooperation with Switzerland is established as well. Swiss Ambassador to Macedonia Stefano Lazzarotto said This initiative came as an idea from the Government. The economic development is one of our focus in Macedonia and in the coming period we will support projects aimed at developing the private sector in the amount of 12,000 million Swiss francs. At the same time, Switzerland is continuing its long-standing cooperation with Macedonia in other areas in which operates.

Switzerland halts ‘mutual legal assistance’ with Egypt in Mubarak family funds case

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Swiss judicial authorities have decided to halt mutual legal assistance to the Egyptian government in the investigations into the funds of former President Hosni Mubarak, his family and others, as the investigations have not yielded any tangible results, according to a statement issued by the Swiss Embassy in Cairo on Wednesday.The statement also said that the Egyptian attorney general’s office was informed of this decision in late August distinguishing between the conclusion of mutual assistance and the continuation of the investigation, as mutual legal assistance is only one “part of the investigation”, and that no final decisions regarding the funds have been taken.Judicial cooperation between Egypt and Switzerland began after Mubarak was deposed in February 2011. However, the Swiss embassy asserts that “despite this cooperation, Swiss judicial authorities had to conclude that the legal requirements were not met, particularly with regard to the link between the alleged crimes and Switzerland”.

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