ouldn’t get and he knew it. At this point it was clear that federation couldn’t be hold. Then Slovakian national counsel declared sovereignty of Slovak republic. Soon after Havel resigned on post of Czechoslovak president. Slovak representatives soon after his resign said that a chance of re-election of Havel is none. He resigned because he felt that he lost allowance of most Slovak politicians.Then it was announced by Meciar and Klaus that on 1.1.1993 federation should end. Then it was passed in all three governments that Czechs and Slovaks will have their own countries. Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.So could the split have been avoided? I think that in the very beginning in year 1990 it could have been. If Havel came to Slovakia right after his election and had a professional speech where he would tell Slovaks that they are tight to Czechs. But instead he came to Bratislava five months later and had an amateur speech. The problem was that he didn’t understand Slovakian problem at all. He and whole Czech representation were not prepared to face such a complicated issue. Their amateur negotiations gave space to Slovakian nationalistic parties and individuals. In 1992 it was clear that federation can’t be hold. I think that lots of people blame Klaus for split of federation, but that’s not true at all. Klaus from the beginning was against split, but in 1992 he saw, there was no way for federation to stay. So in the very end he was radical and didn’t allow any changes in agreement with Meciar about split. Because he knew more and more problems would occasionally follow.I think that it was right to split in 1992, because there was probably no other way of dealing with that problem during those times. Most people argue, that there was no referendum about split. That’s right, but if referendum was issued and people probably wouldn’t agree with split, there still would be political situatio...
