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Karel Schwarzenberg

Karel Schwarzenberg is Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic.

Commentaries by Karel Schwarzenberg

  • Newsart for Myanmar’s Ethnic Powder Keg

    Myanmar’s Ethnic Powder Keg

    PRAGUE – Two years have passed since Myanmar (Burma) held its first general election after more than two decades of military dictatorship. T…

  • Newsart for The Fire in the Monastery

    The Fire in the Monastery

    PRAGUE – The grim spectacle of young monks, nuns, and lay people setting themselves on fire to protest conditions in their homeland is a sta…

  • Newsart for Havel Lives

    Havel Lives

    PRAGUE – The death of Václav Havel, the former president of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, has been marked with mourning around the …

  • Newsart for Human Rights and Leprosy

    Human Rights and Leprosy

    PRAGUE – At the end of last year, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution approving principles and guidelines t…

  • Newsart for Killing Justice in Russia

    Killing Justice in Russia

    PRAGUE – The death of Eduard Chuvashov, a judge killed in cold blood on April 12 in Moscow, is another in a long and growing list of murders…

  • A Czech Moment

    PRAGUE – As I listened to what some Europeans were saying as my country prepared to take over the presidency of the European Union, I heard …

  • Humanity’s Stake in Gaza

    Amman – Wasted time is always to be regretted. But in the Middle East, wasting time is also dangerous. Another year has now passed with litt…

  • Europe after the Kosovo War

    The Kosovo war should force the European Union to rethink its future. As the new commission chaired by Romano Prodi takes over it should sei…

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