Svejnar has decided to publish the file at his web page. He said he wanted to prevent the discrediting of his person by the documents relating to the past of his family. Svejnar said in a statement sent to CTK today there were no archive files relating directly to him. Svejnar received his father's file from the Archives of the Security Forces of the Interior Ministry today. He placed it on his Czech Haematology Institute trade unions ready to strike ...
Charter plane crashes near Kiev ... web page www.svejnarprezidentem.cz. Svejnar's father was an employee of the Economics Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1961. One year later, he was to attend a U.N.
conference on the application of science and technologies abroad. "I, the signed person, voluntarily pledge to collaborate with the employees of the Interior Ministry in order to contribute to further development of Czechoslovak science and technology," the 1961 file says. The file says that "since he was not sent abroad, the contact with him was interrupted in 1962." The Interior Ministry also wanted to contact Svejnar in 1968 during his trip to Nigeria, where he was sent as a UNESCO expert. However, before it could do so, Svejnar emigrated to the West. "Maximum transparency is the only correct way with which to come to terms with the past. Hence my decision to publish the complete file I have received from the Archives of the Security Forces of the Interior Ministry on my web page," Svejnar said. Svejnar's father Zdenek Svejnar worked as an economist for the United Nations, including a stint in Africa. After the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Svejnar stayed in the West. In 1970, he lived with his wife in Switzerland, where they were later joined by their son Jan Svejnar. Jan Svejnar spent much of his life in the USA. Jan Svejnar is the candidate of center-left groupings for the post of president, also contested by incumbent President Vaclav Klaus, proposed by the rightist ruling Civic Democratic Party (ODS).
(Ceske Noviny)
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