GenevaLunch » Hillary Clinton http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:57:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Hillary Clinton to step off “hire wire” job: surprise, non-surprise and kudos http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/28/hillary-clinton-to-step-off-hire-wire-job-surprise-non-surprise-and-kudos/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/28/hillary-clinton-to-step-off-hire-wire-job-surprise-non-surprise-and-kudos/#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:29:01 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66092 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Hillary Clinton’s offhand announcement, at the tail end of a Town Hall meeting in Washington, Thursday 26 January, that she’ll leave her post as Secretary of State when the president has time to name a replacement came as a big surprise to many while others wondered why it is news, since it’s [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/28/hillary-clinton-to-step-off-hire-wire-job-surprise-non-surprise-and-kudos/feed/ 0 Clinton brings gays out of the human rights closet (update) http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/06/clinton-brings-gays-out-of-the-human-rights-closet/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/06/clinton-brings-gays-out-of-the-human-rights-closet/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:43:55 +0000 Marie Joséphine Guillet http://genevalunch.com/?p=64487 GenevaLunch.com Update 06:00, transcript available  GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may have surprised more than one person in her audience at the United Nations Palais in Geneva Tuesday evening when her speech on human rights focused, not on the hot topic of Syria, but on a group whose rights rarely get this [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/06/clinton-brings-gays-out-of-the-human-rights-closet/feed/ 0 Hillary Clinton visit will raise US political profile in int’l Geneva (update) http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/05/hillary-clinton-visit-will-raise-us-political-profile-in-intl-geneva-update/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/05/hillary-clinton-visit-will-raise-us-political-profile-in-intl-geneva-update/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:36:00 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64462 GenevaLunch.com Clinton plans to meet with Syrian opposition representatives in Geneva GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, is about to come to town, but not just for a conference and a chat with the press: her Tuesday-Wednesday stopover includes major appearances at three Geneva international organization events. The US State department has [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/05/hillary-clinton-visit-will-raise-us-political-profile-in-intl-geneva-update/feed/ 0 White House shrugs off Qaddafi appeal http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/07/white-house-shrugs-off-qaddafi-appeal/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/07/white-house-shrugs-off-qaddafi-appeal/#comments Thu, 07 Apr 2011 07:22:49 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=56228 GenevaLunch.com Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi has appealed to US President Barack Obama in a letter to end what he called “an unjust war”, but the White House is shrugging off the appeal, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton saying at a press briefing that Qaddafi “knows what he has to do”. The deputy foreign minister of the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/07/white-house-shrugs-off-qaddafi-appeal/feed/ 1 Clinton, Lavrov reportedly meeting in Geneva http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/28/clinton-lavrov-reportedly-meeting-in-geneva/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/28/clinton-lavrov-reportedly-meeting-in-geneva/#comments Mon, 28 Feb 2011 05:32:31 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=54619 GenevaLunch.com Libyan crisis brings foreign minister to UNHRC meeting Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are both attending the 16th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva starting Monday and a plenary session of the Conference of Disarmament. Russian media reported Sunday that the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/28/clinton-lavrov-reportedly-meeting-in-geneva/feed/ 1 Clinton to join Human Rights Council meeting on Libya http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/24/clinton-to-join-human-rights-council-meeting-on-libya/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/24/clinton-to-join-human-rights-council-meeting-on-libya/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:25:01 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=54505 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – US President Barack Obama is sending Hillary Clinton, secretary of state, to a special meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva Monday 28 February, to study options for dealing with Libya’s violent response to protesters. Libya is a member of the council, and others on the council have called [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/24/clinton-to-join-human-rights-council-meeting-on-libya/feed/ 1 Geneva int’l groups launch questions for Clinton http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/18/geneva-intl-groups-launch-questions-for-clinton/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/18/geneva-intl-groups-launch-questions-for-clinton/#comments Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:43:06 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=54263 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The group of 25 representatives from Geneva’s NGO’s (non-governmental organizations) cheered as Hillary Clinton took her first question from them 16 February. The video conference question-answer session was part of a new US initiative by US Secretary of State Clinton called “strategic dialogue with civil society”. The first session was held [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/18/geneva-intl-groups-launch-questions-for-clinton/feed/ 1 US State Dept backtracks on changes to form http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/10/us-state-dept-backtracks-on-changes-to-form/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/10/us-state-dept-backtracks-on-changes-to-form/#comments Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:52:22 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=52099 GenevaLunch.com US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has ordered a halt to proposed changes to a passport application form that were announced 22 December, according to AP 8 January. The US State Department’s Consular Report of a Birth Abroad, which is required for first-time passport applications and by foreign-born minors, would no longer have referred to [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/10/us-state-dept-backtracks-on-changes-to-form/feed/ 0 Value of Yuan on agenda ahead of China’s state visit http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/06/value-of-yuan-on-agenda-ahead-of-chinas-state-visit/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/06/value-of-yuan-on-agenda-ahead-of-chinas-state-visit/#comments Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:26:01 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=51965 GenevaLunch.com The appreciation of China’s currency against the US dollar will not affect current trade imbalances much, China’s Vice-Minister for Trade Jiang Yaoping said in remarks in Beijing 5 January. The Yuan’s current perceived weakness is cited by many in Washington as the cause of the whopping US trade deficit with China, estimated to be $190 [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/06/value-of-yuan-on-agenda-ahead-of-chinas-state-visit/feed/ 0 US Senate poised to ratify Start treaty (update) http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/22/us-senate-poised-to-ratify-start-treaty-update/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/22/us-senate-poised-to-ratify-start-treaty-update/#comments Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:12:17 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=51495 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) -The US Senate has ratified a treatycovering US-Russian nuclear arms and handed the Obama adminstration one of the few foreign policy triumphs in almost two years.  The vote 22 December was 71-26 and included 13 Republican senators who joined the entire Democratic caucus. The treaty governs strategic nuclear weapons between the former [...]

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