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Former senior Czech diplomat Karel Schwarzenberg passes away

2023-11-12 15:14:00, Kosova & Bota CNA
Former senior Czech diplomat Karel Schwarzenberg passes away
Karel Schwarzenberg

Former Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, one of the leading figures in the country's post-communist era, has died, officials said on Sunday, Reuters reports. He was 85 years old.

Schwarzenberg was born into a prestigious Czech family and became a top aide to his friend Vaclav Havel after the former dissident won the country's first free elections in 1990. He later served twice as foreign minister between 2007 and 2013.

The Vaclav Havel Library, which Schwarzenberg co-founded, said he died on Saturday, calling him a "true patriot and European". Czech media had said he had been taken to a Vienna hospital last week.

Schwarzenberg had spent much of his life in exile as his family was among the main targets of the Communists who seized power in a 1948 coup, confiscating the vast Schwarzenberg estate that included cottages, forests and land mostly in the south of the country near Austria./ CNA





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