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The State Secretary, De Watteville indicated that <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">Switzerland<\/st1:country-region> would examine requests which are independent of what the Swiss Government considers as breach of Swiss law. It was also agreed that the Swiss competent authority would assist to provide information on request by the Indian side with respect to both banking and non-banking information in a time bound manner or else indicate the reason why the cases cannot be answered within the agreed timeline. 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