Meeting between Bill Clinton and Václav Havel.

Description
Number ADALIB 10482
Collection Atelier des Archives
Title Meeting between Bill Clinton and Václav Havel.
Duration 00:08:29
Date of production 11/01/1994
Keyword NATO
Places : Meeting, Prague
Index : Speech, Handshake
Personalities : Clinton Bill, Havel Vaclav
Sound Sonoer
Summary Continuation of Bill Clinton’s visit to Prague. Various shots of Clinton with Václav Havel. Footage of a meeting attended by the two men, who shake hands. Speech by Václav Havel, followed by Bill Clinton, who thanks Havel and recalls that he had visited Prague 25 years earlier and that much had changed since then. He emphasizes the importance of security for the Czech Republic and the other countries of Eastern Europe. He discusses the possibility of NATO membership and expresses his desire to encourage the democratic process. Václav Havel translates into Czech (not translated). Bill Clinton again stresses the possibility of joining NATO. Madeleine Albright can be seen at the end of the speech.