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Article: Majority of Cantons in Switzerland in Favor of U.N. Membership
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- February 11, 2002
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Three weeks before the referendum on whether Switzerland should
join the United Nations, a majority of the country's 23 cantons would
vote in favor, local media reported on Monday.
The survey, commissioned by two Swiss newspapers, the
"SonntagsBlick" and "Dimanche.ch," showed 12 cantons are in favor of
U.N. membership, five are against it and six cantons remain
undecided.
The poll suggested that six cantons, which were still undecidedin
November last year, would now vote in favor of membership.
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