Přátelé, slavte! Jsa v USA, trochu z jiného soudku (dnešní Washington Post): (...) Though the Czech government will be represented by Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka at the ceremony Wednesday, there is growing evidence that the government has strayed drastically from Havel’s legacy. At the NATO summit in September, Czech President Milos Zeman got into a public argument with Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt when he denied that there was “clear proof” of Russia’s intervention in Ukraine. He also denounced Mikhail Khodorkovsky as “a thief” soon after the exiled Russian opposition leader had come to Prague to deliver the keynote address to the annual conference of Forum 2000, an organization founded by Havel in 1996. “If there’s anything I don’t like about the Putin regime,” Zeman said, “it’s that he put only Khodorkovsky in prison and not more oligarchs.” Last month, during a visit to China focused on boosting trade ties, he further separated himself from the Havel legacy by ignoring human rights and assuring Beijing that he accepted China’s position on Tibet and Taiwan. The policy of appeasing Vladimir Putin and putting economic relations with China above human rights is being reinforced today by the Czech foreign ministry, which is in the process of terminating the assistance that has been provided to dissidents in Cuba, Belarus and China through a government program called TRANS, short for Transformation Aid. The deputy foreign minister in charge of revamping the program, Petr Drulák, has said the Havel approach to human rights is based on a “false universalism” that seeks to “impose on others our idea of the ideal society.” (...)
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:47:53 +0000
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