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INTERVIEW
clav Havel brought a quick transforma-
tion of the society and the economy in the
Czech Republic. In the 90s, the analysis
by the London Morgan Guaranty Trust
shows that the Czech Republic acts as
the economic “tiger” of Middle Europe.
According to the data from March 1996,
approximately 70% of the funds in the
economy are owned by private persons.
Thereby the Czech privatization was char-
acterized by civilized way of implement-
ing the reforms whereby the standard of
living of the population was not dramati-
cally impaired, same as in some other
post-communist countries. The success-
ful privatization, whose creators were the
politicians at the time – the Prime Min-
ister Klaus and the Minister Jezek, com-
prised of mass privatization and gradual
privatization of the large, structurally
determined state companies. These two
elements were performed simultane-
ously and they intertwined, however they
were not exclusive. The first wave of mass
privatization ended on December 20, 1992
whereby the ownership in an amount of
299 billion korunas from 1,491 state com-
panies passed into the ownership of pri-
vate persons and funds. The second wave
of privatization was similarly performed
and it ended in February 1995. One could
indicate several reasons for the successful
privatization and transformation of the
Czech Republic towards a market econo-
my – the peaceful and professional man-
ner of privatization of state companies,
the participation of the entire nation in
the privation through the system of mass
privatization, the stability of the state in- our country and that the assistant-min-
stitutions and of the political system dur-
ing the transformation, the respect of the
legal order, the high level of education
and culture of the Czech population, the
social responsibility of the politicians, as
well as the significant historical tradition
of the Czech Republic.
You also had the role of a diplomatic
representative in the Czech Republic in
the period before and during its recogni-
tion of the independence of the Republic
of Macedonia. How did we get to this rec-
ognition?
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B. Nocev: In October 1993, during the
opening of the concert season in Obec-
ný dům in Prague, I informally met the
Prime Minister of the Czech Republic at
the time, Vaclav Klaus, and his wife Livia,
and since that moment my gradual lob-
bying among the Czech politicians had
started. Soon I was welcomed by the Di-
rector for South-East Europe, mister Jiří
Kalashnikov in Černinský Palác in Prague
(the Czernin Palace is the seat of the Min-
istry of External Affairs of the Czech Re-
public), which provided me reception by
the first deputy minister of external af-
fairs, mister Alexandr Vondra (who has
close relations with the Trilateral Com-
mission of David Rockefeller) whereby
consulting has been agreed between the
two Ministries of External Affairs. On De-
cember 1993, the first political consulta-
tions were held in the history of the two
countries in Prague. Our delegation com-
prised of Viktor Gaber, undersecretary of
the Ministry of External Affairs, Gjorgi
Misajlovski, chief of the Department for
Middle Europe, and I, first diplomatic
representative of the Republic of Mace-
donia in the Czech Republic.
After the successfully conducted ne-
gotiations and meetings, on February 1,
1994, I was invited by the deputy Minister
of External Affairs of the Czech Repub-
lic, mister Aleksandr Vondra, who an-
nounced me that on February 2, 1994, the
Czech Republic will officially recognize
ister of the Czech Ministry of External