Klaus disavows regulation remarks

President Klaus on Tuesday disavowed certain remarks published by the US daily Washington Post earlier this week and repeated in the Czech press. Mr Klaus was quoted as saying that regulation in the Czech Republic was greater now than it had been 20 years ago prior to the fall of communism; he says that his actual point was that there is more regulation in the country at present than he would have expected at that time, and that the misquote is damaging to him as a head of state. Mr Klaus is currently in the United States attending the General Assembly of the United Nations.