Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:08:51 +0200https://english.radio.cz/first-post-communist-czechoslovak-foreign-minister-jiri-dienstbier-dies-8566950© 2026 Radio Prague International Czech Senator Jiří Dienstbier, a leading figure of the Czech dissident movement and the country’s first post-communist foreign minister died over the weekend at the age of 73. A former dissident and journalist, Mr. Dienstbier served on many committees and worked as a UN rapporteur on human rights in the former Yugoslavia, but in people’s minds he will always be remembered as the man who stood next to the former West German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher and cut through the barbed wire of the Iron Curtain. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/dienstbier2_1.jpg?timestamp=1591268066 https://english.radio.cz/first-post-communist-czechoslovak-foreign-minister-jiri-dienstbier-dies-8566950 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9