The Valais (;, ) is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland, situated in the southwestern part of the country, around the valley of the Rhône from its headwaters to Lake Geneva, separating the Pennine Alps from the Bernese Alps.

The Republic and Canton of Geneva (; ; ; ; ) is the French-speaking westernmost canton or state of Switzerland, surrounded on almost all sides by France.

Gabriel Cramer (; 31 July 1704 – 4 January 1752 ) was a Swiss mathematician, born in Geneva.

While the CIA and MI6 and the People's Liberation Army of China financed the operation along with the Pakistan government against the Soviet Union Eventually the Soviet Union began looking for a withdrawal route and in 1988 Geneva Accords were signed between Communist-Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ; under the terms Soviet troops were to withdraw.

At that time the French and Chinese reconvened Geneva peace talks ; Eisenhower agreed the U. S. would participate only as an observer.

Ambrose argues that Eisenhower, by not participating in the Geneva agreement, had kept the U. S out of Vietnam ; nevertheless, with the formation of SEATO, he had in the end put the U. S. back into the conflict.

* Klaus Scherer ( born 1943 ) – Swiss psychologist and director of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences in Geneva ; he specializes in the psychology of emotion

and a 2009 survey by Mercer found Geneva to have the third-highest quality of life of any city in the world ( behind Vienna and Zurich ; it is narrowly outranked by Zurich ).

In the years that followed, other states subscribed to limitations of their conduct, and numerous other treaties and bodies were created to regulate the conduct of states towards one another in terms of these treaties, including, but not limited to, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in 1899 ; the Hague and Geneva Conventions, the first of which was passed in 1907 ; the International Court of Justice in 1921 ; the Genocide Convention ; and the International Criminal Court, in the late 1990s.

At the Second International Interlanguage Congress, held in Geneva in 1931, IALA began to break new ground ; 27 recognized linguists signed a testimonial of support for IALA's research program.

Church attendance had dwindled and the political climate had changed ; as Bern and Geneva quarrelled over land, their alliance frayed.

Traditional grave of Calvin in the Cimetière des Rois | Cimetière de Plainpalais in Geneva ; the exact location of his grave is unknown.

According to the historian David P. Chandler, the leftist Issarak groups, aided by the Viet Minh, occupied a sixth of Cambodia's territory by 1952 ; and, on the eve of the Geneva Conference, they controlled as much as one half of the country.

In 2004, the new CCR was unveiled at the Geneva Auto Show ; only 20 were ever made.

# Assisting the High Commissioner in maintaining liaison on policy matters with the Executive Office of the Secretary-General and other relevant offices at Headquarters, as well as with the spokespersons of the Secretary-General at New York and Geneva and the media ;

The concept of " mutual aerial observation " was initially proposed to Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin at the Geneva Conference of 1955 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower ; however, the Soviets promptly rejected the concept and it lay dormant for several years.

The German military used the Soviet Union's refusal to sign the Geneva Convention as a reason for not providing the necessities of life to Russian POWs ; and the Soviets similarly killed Axis prisoners or used them as slave labor.

Almost 20 % of all conscripts were found unfit for military or civilian service in 2008 ; the rate is generally higher in urban cantons such as Zurich and Geneva than in the rural ones.

Papert worked with Jean Piaget at the University of Geneva from 1958 to 1963 and is widely considered the most brilliant and successful of Piaget's protégés ; Piaget once said that " no one understands my ideas as well as Papert.

The Doha round began in Doha, Qatar, and negotiations have subsequently continued in: Cancún, Mexico ; Geneva, Switzerland ; and Paris, France and Hong Kong.

The Universal Copyright Convention ( or UCC ), adopted at Geneva in 1952, is one of the two principal international conventions protecting copyright ; the other is the Berne Convention.

** A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 airliner ( Swissair Flight 111 ) crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia, after taking off from New York City en-route to Geneva ; all 229 people on board are killed.

One of the most significant revisions is the Declaration of Geneva, first drafted in 1948 by the World Medical Association ; it has since been revised several times.

The inclination here is to accept a de facto cease-fire in Laos, rather than continue to insist on a verification of the cease-fire by the international control commission before participating in the Geneva conference.

As a result, the West is in a poor bargaining position at the current Geneva negotiations on Laos, and South Vietnam and other nations in Southeast Asia are under increased pressure.

* 1553 – Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva.

The text of this Convention is the result of some three years of intensive debate and negotiation at the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament at Geneva and at the United Nations.

Under the Geneva Conventions of 1949, it is a war crime to transfer, directly or indirectly, the civilian population of a country power onto land under that country's military occupation.

The Swiss teacher, author and caricature artist Rodolphe Töpffer ( Geneva, 1799 – 1846 ) is considered the father of the modern comic strips.

* 1602 – A surprise attack by forces under the command of the Duke of Savoy and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva.

United Methodist clergy are not required to be vested when celebrating the Eucharist, though it is most often the case that they are vested either in a Geneva gown and stole or an alb and stole.

Situated where the Rhone exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Republic and Canton of Geneva.

Geneva is a global city, a financial centre, and worldwide centre for diplomacy and the most important UN international co-operation centre with New York thanks to the presence of numerous international organizations, including the headquarters of many of the agencies of the United Nations and the Red Cross.

It is also the place where the Geneva Conventions were signed, which chiefly concern the treatment of wartime non-combatants and prisoners of war.

The name Geneva is probably of Celtic origin.

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Another theory is that Geneva is derived from " Genévrier " which is the French word for " juniper ".

In 2010 Geneva City Council was made up of two representatives of the SDP ( Social Democratic Party, one of whom is the mayor ), one member of the FDP ( Free Democratic Party ), one member of the Green Party and one member of the À gauche Toute party.

Geneva is located at 46 ° 12 ' North, 6 ° 09 ' East, at the south-western end of Lake Geneva, where the lake flows back into the Rhône River.

The part of the lake that is attached to Geneva has an area of and is sometimes referred to as Petit lac ( small lake ).

In an interview with Eurostar's Chief Executive Nicolas Petrovic in the Financial Times in May 2012, an intention for Eurostar to serve ten new destinations was expressed, including Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Cologne, Lyon, Marseille and Geneva, along with a likely second hub to be created in Brussels.

The second main river of Geneva is the Arve River which flows into the Rhône River just west of the city centre.

She decided to stay in Geneva alone, living first on the lake at Plongeon ( near the present United Nations buildings ) and then at the Rue de Chanoines ( now the Rue de la Pelisserie ) with François and Juliet d ’ Albert Durade on the second floor (" one feels in a downy nest high up in a good old tree ").

During the second half of the 1920s, France, Britain and Germany were all using the League of Nations as the focus of their diplomatic activity, and each of their foreign secretaries attended League meetings at Geneva during this period.

The second generation of Classicists, often trained in philosophy as well ( following Heidegger and Derrida, mainly ), built on their work, with authors such as Marcel Detienne ( now at Johns Hopkins ), Nicole Loraux, Medievalist and logician Alain De Libera ( Geneva ), Ciceronian scholar Carlos Lévy ( Sorbonne, Paris ) and Barbara Cassin ( Collége international de philosophie, Paris ).

The second largest airport, Geneva Cointrin, handled 10. 8 million passengers and the third largest Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg Airport 4. 3 million passengers, both airports being shared with France.

In 1960, the United Nations held the second Conference on the Law of the Sea (" UNCLOS II "); however, the six-week Geneva conference did not result in any new agreements.

The first conference took place in Geneva in 1964, second in New Delhi in 1968, the third in Santiago in 1972, fourth in Nairobi in 1976, the fifth in Manila in 1979, the sixth in

While the first conference was held in Geneva in 1964, the second conference in New Delhi was an opportunity for schemes to be finally approved.

The second referred to the burning of Michael Servetus at Geneva Oct. 27, 1553.

The Tevatron was a circular particle accelerator in the United States, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory ( also known as Fermilab ), just east of Batavia, Illinois, and is the second highest energy particle collider in the world after the Large Hadron Collider ( LHC ) near Geneva, Switzerland.

The second, easier one would lead them to the town of Geneva, where the Lake Geneva flows into the Rhone River and where a bridge allowed passage over the river.

After taking his Abitur examinations in 1909, he began studying Law in Berlin in October of the same year, spending his second semester in Geneva at the start of 1910.

Her favourite places were Cap Martin on the French Riviera, where tourism had started only in the second half of the nineteenth century ; Lake Geneva in Switzerland ; Bad Ischl in Austria, where the imperial couple would spend the summer ; and Corfu.

The second half of the film becomes appreciably darker, after Gowan falls in love with a young college student, Geneva Spofford ( Kelly McGillis, in her debut film role ), who has everything to lose from a relationship with a drunken deadbeat poet unable to hold a job.

The first and second Geneva Conventions provide for the humane care of sick and wounded combatants on land and sea without discrimination.

There is a second QUNO office in Geneva, Switzerland ; support for that office is provided by European Quakers.

There are currently 194 countries party to the 1949 Geneva Conventions, including this second treaty but also including the other three.

Born in Aix-en-Provence, she was the second daughter of Ramon Berenguer V, Count of Provence ( 1198 – 1245 ) and Beatrice of Savoy ( 1205 – 1267 ), the daughter of Thomas I of Savoy and his second wife Margaret of Geneva.

In 2001, the ITU Council decided to hold the Summit in two phases, the first from 10 to 12 December 2003, in Geneva, and the second from 16 to 18 November 2005 in Tunis.

He certainly was in Paris on 4 July, when he gave Louis de Lavernade of the province of Forez, then chancellor of the duke of Bourbon and first president of the parliament of Toulouse, a copy of his second edition of Cicero, as appears from a note in Lavernade's own hand at the end of the book, which is now in the library of Geneva.

The couple's first child, Prince Karim, was born in Geneva, seven months later ; they also had a second son, Prince Amyn Muhammad Aga Khan.