Swiss Jewish leaders were among those who last week honored the nation’s outgoing foreign minister at a ceremony hosted by the Foundation Against Racism and Anti-Semitism. Flavio Cotti received $34,000 from the foundation in recognition of his efforts, when he served as president last year, to get the Alpine nation to confront its wartime past. Cotti stepped down from the Cabinet last week, fulfilling a pledge he made in January to resign in order to give his conservative Christian Democratic People’s Party new leadership in advance of the nation’s October elections.
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