Micheline Calmy-Rey steps down

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The Geneva politician and president of the city's Social Democratic Party is pictured here in 1993. (Keystone) swissinfo.ch

Photo shoot for the cabinet minister in 2003. (Keystone/Martin Rütschi) swissinfo.ch

With the Chinese foreign minister Li Zhaoxing on the Jungfraujoch in the Bernese Oberland. (Keystone/Yoshiko Kusano) swissinfo.ch

With cabinet colleague Christoph Blocher in the House of Representatives. (Keystone/Peter Klaunzer) swissinfo.ch

Paying a visit to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinedschad in March 2007. (Reuters/Raheb Homavandi) swissinfo.ch

After a storm in Riedes, Calmy-Rey visits the village near Delémont in canton Jura in 2007. (Keystone/Georgios Kefalas) swissinfo.ch

Visit to a hospital in El Fasher, Sudan,in June 2004. (Keystone/Marcus Gyger) swissinfo.ch

A visit to see Italian President Azeglio Ciampi in Bern in May 2003. (RDB/Kurt Reichenbach) swissinfo.ch

With President Michail Saakaschwili on an official visit in Tiflis, Georgia, in May 2011. (EPA/Zurab Kurtsikidze) swissinfo.ch

The step over the demarcation line between North and South Korea in 2003. (Keystone/Steffen Schmidt) swissinfo.ch

Preparing for a speech before the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva in 2003. (Keystone/Laurent Gillieron) swissinfo.ch

The Swiss president holds a speech on the Rütli meadow in central Switzerland on August 1, (Swiss National Day) in 2007. (Keystone/Alessandro Della Bella) swissinfo.ch

One of her legendary handbags, in September 2006. (RDB/Peter Gerber) swissinfo.ch

The foreign minister welcomes at Zurich airport four Swiss tourists who had been abducted in Mali in August 2003. (Keystone/Walter Bieri) swissinfo.ch

On the Temple Mount in Jerusalem during a visit of the Al Aqsa Mosque in February 2005. (Keystone/Monika Flückiger) swissinfo.ch

A copy and the original at the Basel Carnival in 2008. (Keystone/Georgios Kefalas) swissinfo.ch

German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle on a visit to Bern in May 2011. (Keystone/Klaunzer) swissinfo.ch

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Calmy-Rey is foreign minister and the 2011 Swiss president.

The Geneva politician has not been an uncontroversial figure during her time in office.