Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey is to visit Malta tomorrow for talks with Foreign Minister Tonio Borg. It will be the first visit by a Swiss foreign minister to Malta.

Dr Borg said the visit is expected to give new impetus to relations between the two countries.

Switzerland recently joined the EU's Schengen arrangement and started the process of lifting land and air border controls.

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