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.

Geneva (;, ;, ) is the second most populous city in Switzerland ( after Zurich ) and is the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

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.

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 ).

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 ).

* 1988 – Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat gives a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in the Swiss city of Geneva after the United States authorities refused to give him a visa to enter New York.

The reputation of Abauzit induced William III to request him to settle in England, but he did not accept the king's offer, preferring to return to Geneva.

Due to military manoeuvres of imperial and French forces, he was forced to make a detour to the south, bringing him to Geneva.

When Cardinal Jacopo Sadoleto wrote a letter to the city council inviting Geneva to return to the Catholic faith, the council searched for an ecclesiastical authority to respond to him.

When Servetus mentioned that he would come to Geneva if Calvin agreed, Calvin wrote a letter to Farel on 13 February 1546 noting that if Servetus were to come, he would not assure him safe conduct: " for if he came, as far as my authority goes, I would not let him leave alive.

In 1551 Jérôme-Hermès Bolsec, a physician in Geneva, attacked Calvin ’ s doctrine of predestination and accused him of making God the author of sin.

However, Calvin had always warned against describing him as an " idol " and Geneva as a new " Jerusalem ".

Jean-Jacques was left with his maternal uncle, who packed him, along with his own son, Abraham Bernard, away to board for two years with a Calvinist minister in a hamlet outside Geneva.

Initially agreement had been reached for him to marry Margaret of Geneva, daughter of William I, Count of Geneva, but the young bride's journey to Paris was interrupted by Thomas I of Savoy, who kidnapped Philip's intended new queen and married her instead, claiming that Philip was already bound in marriage.

Although freed in early 1831, he chose exile instead of life confined into the small hamlet which was requested of him by the police, moving to Geneva in Switzerland.

Before his departure, various honours were conferred on him, including the freedom of the city of Geneva.

" But the official recognition and the crown's approval to his undertaking could not save him from the censure and ceaseless opposition of the divines, and in 1550, to escape the violence of his persecutors, he emigrated to Geneva where he set up his printing house.

For twenty-two months Beza had been absent from Geneva, and the interests of school and Church there and especially the condition of Calvin made it necessary for him to return.

Fortunately James Mason had just finished filming Doctor Fischer of Geneva for the BBC and the schedule was changed to allow him to take over the part of Sir Randolph Nettleby six weeks later.

Among his successes was the Treaty of Annemasse which the Count of Geneva and the Dauphin of Viennois accepted subservient roles to him as his vassals.

Byron also composed an enigmatic fragmentary story concerning the mysterious fate of an aristocrat named Augustus Darvell whilst journeying in the Orient — as his contribution to the famous ghost story competition at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in the summer of 1816, between him, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley and John William Polidori ( who was Byron's personal physician ).

As with other combatants, he is still protected by the Third Geneva Convention ( GCIII ), until a competent tribunal finds him to be in violation of his parole.

Failing to find him, the assassin selected Elisabeth when a Geneva newspaper revealed that the elegant woman traveling under the pseudonym of " Countess of Hohenembs " was the Empress Elisabeth of Austria.

Among others, via Giuseppe Motta in Lugano, Chiasso, Minusio and Massagno, Piazza Giuseppe Motta in Ascona and Avenue Giuseppe-Motta in Geneva are named for him.

Returning to Switzerland at the close of 1548, with commendatory letters to the Swiss churches from Nicolas Meyer, envoy from Wittenberg to Italy, we find him ( 1549 – 1550 ) at Geneva, Basel ( with Sebastian Münster ) and Zürich ( lodging with Konrad Pelikan ).

His request that he should be buried at night, and his widow's open profession of Protestantism at Geneva ( where she retired after his death ), caused him to be suspected of leanings towards Calvinism.

Marot accordingly fled to Geneva ; but the stars were now decidedly against him.