The Czech president, Miloš Zeman, was among a number of international
leaders to visit Berlin on Saturday for events marking the 30th anniversary
of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Mr. Zeman and the heads of the three other
Visegrad Four states attended a gathering in the city held at a monument to
the contribution that the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary made
to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Their German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said that without the
courage of the Poles, Hungarians, Czechs and Slovaks peaceful revolutions
in Eastern Europe, or the reunification of Germany, would not have been
possible.
In her address Chancellor Angela Merkel quoted Václav Havel and said that
no wall that divided people was high enough or long enough not to be
destroyed in the end.
Mr. Zeman then returned to the Czech Republic. The country’s minister of
foreign affairs, Tomáš Petříček, was due to attend celebrations in the
German capital in the evening.