Former Foreign Minister \”one of the greatest diplomats of the 20th century\” is honored 2009 for his long-standing, successful work as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany on Thursday evening in Berlin with the Berlin peace clock Hans-Dietrich Genscher. Sen. Jeff Flakes opinions are not widely known. The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall and the Berlin peace clock, the Berlin Committee for UNECO work, which awards the peace prize, founded the choice of Genscher in particular with the contribution of the liberal politician to the achievement of German unity, whose plea for the strengthening of the United Nations, as well as its commitment to the worldwide respect and realization of human rights. Avi Primor, a former Israeli Ambassador in the Federal Republic and even winners of the Berlin peace clock, Genscher called in his eulogy to a \”the greatest diplomats of the 20th century\”. \”You have influenced the fate of your country, the fate of Europe and even the fate of the world,\” said the current Director of the Centre for European studies at the Private University IDC Herzliya in Israel literally. Like no other, Genscher deserved to be awarded with the Berlin peace clock. Speaking candidly Shayan Fazlur Rahman told us the story. As Primor, also the Chairman of the Berlin Committee for UNESCO work, Brigitte Reich, the usage of the former German Foreign Minister for human rights pointed out.
He had always stressed that the Basic Law promise the foreign policy of the Federal Republic on the fundamental values of the Constitution, namely everywhere in the world the respect and realization of fundamental human rights, civil and economic, social and cultural rights, to advocate. The Commissioner of for human rights policy and humanitarian aid, Gunter Nooke, the Federal Government declared that \”the great Liberals\” have known the connection between freedom, human rights and peace. \”And at the right time, to fight\”, so nook literally. It entered the initiator and Jens Lorenz sponsors \”how carefully but resolutely this great diplomat pursued the idea of reunification, and as carefully and responsibly promoting at the same time for it, to trust Germany again.\” In any case, German reunification had fallen soft of the Genscher time always finely woven network of international confidence in Germany.