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01/10/2009
Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek interrupted discussions with Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Saturday to speak to the American president, George Bush, about the situation in the Middle East. Both men agreed on the need to secure a cease-fire, deliver humanitarian aid and prevent weapons being smuggled into Gaza. Mr Bush said Mr Topolánek could, representing the EU presidency, support the Palestinian Authority’s distribution of aid in Gaza.
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01/10/2009
The Christian Democrats’ Miroslav Kalousek publicly accused chairman Jiří Čunek of telling a blatant lie at a news conference on Friday evening. After Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek said he planned to replace Mr Čunek as regional development minister in a cabinet reshuffle, the Christian Democrats chairman said he should instead remove Mr Kalousek as finance minister, an idea backed by the party’s leadership. On Friday they changed tack, insisting both men be allowed to remain in cabinet; Mr Kalousek’s charge reflected a disagreement over the real reasons for that u-turn.
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01/10/2009
Four homeless men died when two wooden huts by road works on a motorway near Ostrava went on fire on Friday. Two bodies were found in one hut, which was gutted completely, with the remains of two other people found in the second, which was only partially burned down, a spokesperson for the Ostrava fire service said. The cause of the fires is being investigated and police are attempting to establish the identities of the victims of the tragedy.
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01/10/2009
Robert Holík has broken Jaromír Jágr’s Czech record for the number of games played in ice hockey’s NHL. New Jersey’s centre, who is 38, played his 1274th game on Friday, a 4:0 defeat to Atlanta. Jágr had played one fewer game before leaving the NHL for Omsk in the Russian league. Holík could have set a new Czech record some time ago, except for breaking a finger in October, an injury which meant he missed 18 games.
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01/10/2009
The Czech tennis player Radek Štěpánek has reached the final of his first tournament of the year, the Brisbane International. The eighth seed beat France’s Richard Gasquet 2-6 6-2 6-4 to set up a meeting with Spain’s Fernando Verdasco in the final on Sunday. Štěpánek, who is 30, said even though he had lost the first set, Saturday’s match had been of a very high quality.
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01/09/2009
An agreement on a European monitoring mission addressing the gas conflict between Ukraine and Russia is not likely to be signed on Friday, the Czech minister for industry and trade, Martin Říman, has revealed. He and Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek travelled to Ukraine on Friday for talks on how to resolve the continuing crisis. Details in the negotiations, however, remain. The EU – led by the Czech presidency – is working to try and ensure that monitoring groups will be deployed quickly to areas, for Russia to make gas supplies available again. Following negotiations in Kiev, the Czech prime minister will reportedly fly to Moscow later on Friday to meet with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
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01/09/2009
In related news, the spokesman for the European Commission warned on Friday that the earliest that deliveries of Russian gas could resume to EU countries would be three days. According to the spokesman, it would take 30 hours for initial supplies to reach Ukraine, once Russia switches on the gas and an additional 36 hours for supplies to reach EU countries. On Friday the commission said that there was hope that Russia would resume supplies very shortly. An exact date remains unknown, although some have reported that Russia could start shipments at the weekend.
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01/09/2009
Czech gas supplier RWE Transgas has sent its representative to Ukraine to take part in a European monitoring mission aimed at helping restore deliveries of natural gas from Russia to Europe. Early on Wednesday Russia completely turned off supplies to Europe in a gas pricing dispute with transit country Ukraine. The decision has affected at least a dozen EU countries, some of which have declared an energy emergency. RWE Transgas reported Friday that gas flow within the Czech Republic was currently sufficient.
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01/09/2009
British journalist and historian Timothy Garton Ash has written that the current crisis in the Gaza Strip as well as the crisis over gas supplies from Russia show the European Union to be “weak” and “divided”. He made the case in an article for the German daily Suddeutsche Zeitung, a little over a week after the Czech Republic took up the EU presidency. The historian criticised it was difficult to take EU foreign policy seriously, given divisions within the union, citing – as a case in point – separate simultaneous missions in the Gaza Strip. At the beginning of the week, one was led by Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, another by the French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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01/09/2009
Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has said that those suffering from the struggle in the Gaza Strip need more humanitarian aid. He made the statement in Prague on Friday after meeting with the Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek. The EU has highlighted the need to help those suffering in the conflict. The Palestinian authorities claim local hospitals are overcrowded with patients and many residents are suffering from lack of water. The EU has decided to set aside three million euros in aid for the humanitarian purposes. Mr Stoltenberg said that like the EU, Norway welcomed the resolution of the Security Council on the Middle East conflict demanding immediate end of violence. Israel said earlier on Friday it would continue with its offensive. It began ground operations in the Gaza Strip in response to repeat missile attacks on its territory by Hamas. Several hundred people have died in the hostilities.
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