Havel’s funeral has lamentable ‘theater of the absurd’ aspect, minister says

It’s absurd Václav Havel’s funeral being stage is managed by chief rival Václav Klaus, foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg says

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Chris Johnstone | 21.12.2011

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Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg (TOP 09) was Václav Havel’s chancellor

Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg says there is something of the theater of the absurd in the fact that former president Václav Havel's funeral is in the hand of his biggest rival and sucessor as head of state, President Václav Klaus. He added that it would be terrible if Klaus did not invite many of Havel's former dissident colleagues against the communist regime to Friday's funeral.

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