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Hillary Clinton: No we can not tear down the wall

The U.S. diplomat stressed that the delMuro fall of Berlin was one of the most outstanding events delsiglo XX during a gala dinner of the Atlantic Council (ConsejoAtlantico).

It changed the landscape of an entire continent, Clinton said referring to the revolution, almost all peaceful, then the remaining quesacudieron Eastern European countries and were held at the end of communism.

Berlin now represents what we have achieved together, said then the U.S. secretary of state, who made unllamamiento to work to carry forward democracy and human losderechos and down the walls of the century .

In this regard, he cited as major international challenges the luchacontra terrorism, against proliferation of weapons nuclearesy against climate change.

At the same dinner fuerongalardonados citizens of Berlin with the Freedom Award porculminar Atlantic Council of the peaceful revolution in the former Republic DemocraticaAlemana with the fall of the Wall that divided the city.

The award was presented to the mayor-governor of Berlin, KlausWowereit, host events to celebrate the 20 Anniversary of the Berlin Wall fell.

The Wall did not fall, was pushed by people and specifically Delest west. He was shot down, taken apart, killed in revolucionpacifica one, he said during the ceremony the new deExteriores German minister, Guido Westerwelle, who received another award in listname German people.

The German chief diplomat recalled that before the end dela division many German citizens of East Germany pagaroncon his life his desire for freedom to be killed when tratabande escape to the West.

U.S. Westerwelle thanked the support recibioAlemania in the process of reunification, concluded on October 3, 1990 with the merger of the two states Germans.

During the same act of the Atlantic Council, a factory deity American, separate awards were also granted the Freedom dela peoples of Poland and the then Czechoslovakia, which were collected by his former presidents and communism disidentesdurante Lech Walesa and Vaclav Havel, respectively.

The Atlantic Council, founded precisely on the year selevanto the Berlin Wall in 1961, aims to encourage transatlantic lasrelaciones between the U.S. and Europe. EFE