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* CZECH PRESIDENT ADDRESSES GERMAN PARLIAMENT
CZECH PRESIDENT ADDRESSES GERMAN PARLIAMENT.
Vaclav Havel told the Bundestag yesterday that "just as today's
Germany cannot bring back to life the tens of thousands of
Czech victims of Nazism..., neither can today's Czech Republic
give back homes to the [Sudeten] Germans who were driven
out of the country" after World War II. Havel also argued that
the concept of the "nation state" has outlived itself. Earlier this
year, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Czech Prime
Minister Vaclav Klaus signed a joint declaration in which both
countries expressed regret for the past injustices. German
President Roman Herzog is due to address the Czech
parliament on 29 April. Meanwhile, groups representing Czech
Jews who survived Nazi concentration camps yesterday called
on the German government and parliament to compensate
Czech victims of Nazism.
POPE, GORBACHEV IN CZECH REPUBLIC. Pope John Paul II
today begins a visit to the Czech Republic to commemorate the
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Article-ID: 04_1997&4350881
Score: 80
Subject: eeurope-changes digest (97/04/27 17283)