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Despite Russian wanrings, new shelling incident in Georgia ... Czech cabinet at first took a good stance, but then it seemed to backpedal, saying one should not deal with who is to blame, but to concentrate on the future. The Czech government promotes Georgia's territorial integrity, it condemned Russia's recognition of the independence of two Georgian breakaway regions, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and it wants to concentrate on the reconstruction of Georgia. Havel said Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili was partly provoked to try to solve the situation in South Ossetia by separatist armed groups. Havel pointed out that all analogies were limping. He said the recognition of Kosovo's independence was a different case, but that the situation could be compared to that in Chechnya, an autonomic republic of the Russian Federation. Havel also pointed to an analogy between Georgia and the 1938 Munich Agreement.
Under the agreement, border regions of then Czechoslovakia where ethnic Germans formed a majority of the population became part of Adolf Hitler's Germany. Russia used the argument that most people living in South Ossetia hold Russian passports.
(Ceske Noviny)
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