On June 30, GI met with Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey to discuss the Geneva Initiative.

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On June 30, GI Chairmen Yasser Abed Rabbo (PPC) and Yossi Beilin (Israel) and GI Director Generals Nidal Fuqah (PPC) and Gadi Balitiansky (Israel) met with Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey to discuss the work of the Geneva Initiative and the role of the organization in producing a detailed agreement to end the conflict.

The meeting was covered by international media outlets:

Le Temps reports on July 2 (translated):

Yasser Abed Rabbo and Yossi Beilin met Tuesday with Micheline Calmy-Rey to present the development of new appendices to the text of the of the Geneva Initiative which represents a process always in progress. In an official statement, the Department of the Foreign Affairs recalls that Switzerland, with other countries, financially supported of the Geneva Initiative with approximately a million francs to the Tel-Aviv and Ramallah secretariats.

Time: What do you want of Switzerland?
Yasser Abed Rabbo: We hope, on the two sides, to extend our efforts so that the Geneva Accord becomes one of the principal references for future discussions of peace. These agreements were supplemented by new appendices concerning water, the environment, and safety. The details are crucial for us. We want to work with all the parts concerned, including the Swiss authorities, to facilitate the discussions.

What do you await Swiss diplomacy concretely?
Publicity, it is not for me to answer. Micheline Calmy-Rey knows better than me what there is to make in the details, how to contact the people concerned.
 

For an interview with GI Chairmen Yasser Abed Rabbo (PPC), click here