A row between himself and the president over the naming of new ambassadors
could continue for some time yet the country's foreign minister, Karel
Schwarzenberg, has said. Speaking on a TV debate programme on Sunday, Mr
Schwarzenberg revealed he had asked current ambassadors ending their
tenure
to remain in their posts. Questions over who will serve as ambassadors to
Bratislava and Moscow, for example, remain unresolved. It is up to the
foreign minister to nominate candidates and up to the president to approve
them, but President Zeman and Mr Schwarzenberg, who faced each other as
candidates in the second round of this year's presidential election, have
not found common ground. The foreign minister has charged the president
has
ignored his constitutional duty.