Klaus questions Czech support for Georgia

Vaclav Klaus is angry that the Czech govt. has unreservedly supported Georgia in the Ossetian conflict. The Czech president has questioned whether this country is the most deserving of Czech humanitarian aid. Klaus questions Czech support for Georgia “I can’t judge whether in today’s complicated world Georgia is the place that needs CZK 150mn of our help, I don’t want to discuss whether maybe Darfur needs it more than anywhere else,” said Klaus, speaking in the town of Milukov on the Austrian border. Together with Austrian President Fischer Heinz, Klaus was marking the 40th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia on the night of August 20/21, 1968. The Czech government decided at its meeting yesterday to send Georgia EUR 6.25mn worth of humanitarian aid, and at the same time, expressed its support for Georgia’s territorial integrity with its provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The government called on Russia to withdraw its forces urgently from sovereign Georgia, and condemned the Russian intervention as a breach of international law. Since fighting broke out, Klaus has warned on a number of occasions that the world is regarding that conflict too impartially, as it once did in the Balkans, and that he personally refused to “drive on the fashionable wave of golden Georgia-evil Russia”. “Were the Czech government to insist on this one-sided interpretation it would be sad and pitiful, and I would very much frown upon the government,” said the Czech president.

Klaus questions Czech support for Georgia

“I can’t judge whether in today’s complicated world Georgia is the place that needs CZK 150mn of our help, I don’t want to discuss whether maybe Darfur needs it more than anywhere else,” said Klaus, speaking in the town of Milukov on the Austrian border.

Together with Austrian President Fischer Heinz, Klaus was marking the 40th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia on the night of August 20/21, 1968.

The Czech government decided at its meeting yesterday to send Georgia EUR 6.25mn worth of humanitarian aid, and at the same time, expressed its support for Georgia’s territorial integrity with its provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

The government called on Russia to withdraw its forces urgently from sovereign Georgia, and condemned the Russian intervention as a breach of international law.

Since fighting broke out, Klaus has warned on a number of occasions that the world is regarding that conflict too impartially, as it once did in the Balkans, and that he personally refused to “drive on the fashionable wave of golden Georgia-evil Russia”.

“Were the Czech government to insist on this one-sided interpretation it would be sad and pitiful, and I would very much frown upon the government,” said the Czech president.