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The cry of the dehumanized slave:�
"NATO reckons with the Czechs, the Poles and the
Hungarians like with anyone else. There is no
difference in approach or behaviour. It is us who
sometimes suffer from a certain complex, believing
that we are unable to manage it, and who tries to stay
in the background, which is a mistake," Fialkova said.
[Dulce et decorum est...to die for someone else's
country. To catch a bullet in the Balkans. Set up bath
houses in Afghanistan for one's 'anyone else'  NATO
superiors. To dispatch atomic-biological-chemical
warfare first line cannon fodder to Kuwait.
Of course the same diminished, humiliating, deadly
roles were reserved for Slavic and Magyar
'Untermenschen' in Operation Barbarossa in June of
1941.]
 


Czechs, Poles, Hungarians celebrate three years in
NATO
� CTK - 12.3.  
���BRUSSELS, March 12 (CTK) - Army representatives of
the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary marked today's
third anniversary of their countries' NATO entry by
giving a reception in the NATO headquarters in
Brussels for their colleagues from the Alliance's
"original" 16 countries.
���The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland were invited
to enter NATO at its summit in Madrid in 1997, and
they were admitted after two years of entry
negotiations, on March 12, 1999. Shortly afterwards,
NATO started a military campaign against Yugoslavia in
connection with President Slobodan Milosevic's policy
towards the province of Kosovo.
���"We have to get accustomed to our duties of a
member very quickly, within a few weeks, as the war
was underway and there was no time to get accustomed
(gradually)," says Katerina Fialkova, who is currently
deputy director of the NATO general secretary's
cabinet.
���She said it seemed to her that the original NATO
members had already got accustomed to the newcomers,
whose feeling as beginners had disappeared a long time
ago.
���"NATO reckons with the Czechs, the Poles and the
Hungarians like with anyone else. There is no
difference in approach or behaviour. It is us who
sometimes suffer from a certain complex, believing
that we are unable to manage it, and who tries to stay
in the background, which is a mistake," Fialkova said.
���She said the Czech Republic should more learn from
comparable countries, as it logically cannot aspire to
the preformance of big states. The Czechs could
achieve an exclusive position in a few areas, she
added.
���"For example, the Danes and the Dutch are perfect
in this. We, too, have things to rely on. In
anti-chemical defence, for instance, we've shown that
we can offer an additional value, something what the
others do not possess," Fialkova said.
���At the same time it is necessary to see to the
Czech Army being reformed as a whole, she said.
���After three years in NATO, the Czech Republic is in
the limelight as the venue of the next NATO summit,
which is expected to discuss the Alliance's further
orientation and decide on the possible second wave of
its enlargement eastwards.
���The summit is to take place in Prague in November.
NATO Secretary General George Robertson will come to
Prague next week to discuss preparations of the
summit.  


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