Klaus Wowereit

...pandemic as a "genocide." The star was also presented with a piece of the Berlin Wall. "It looks inoffensive like this because it has been painted on, but for a long time this was part of a wall of fear," Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit said.

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...looks inoffensive like this because it has been painted on, but for a long time this was part of a wall of fear," Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit said. The two-day summit of Nobel Peace laureates, which ends on Wednesday, included former Soviet...

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Brown suggested that the successful end of the Cold War should serve as a precedent for current efforts to combat climate change. Wowereit made a point of remembering those East Germans who never succeeded at finding a fulfilling life...

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...German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and German President Horst Koehler, Berlin's Major Klaus Wowereit and U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton attend the celebrations for the fall of the Berlin Wall...

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...shown on two mounted flat screens, of footage from when the Berlin Wall was erected and dismantled, an appearance by Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit, via satellite, Los Angeles City Council member Tom LaBonge, Los Angeles German Consul...

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...no less precious." Monday "should be a call to action not just a commemoration of past actions," she said. Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit said that Kennedy had "encouraged and inspired the people of Berlin when he stood before the...

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The painted wall "is a document that allows future generations to picture for themselves ... what the wall meant," Mayor Klaus Wowereit said at an inauguration ceremony. The section was transformed into an open-air gallery months after...

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...which had cleaved the city in half, inspecting 1,000 giant dominos that will be toppled as part of Monday's ceremony. Mayor Klaus Wowereit said the project, in which schoolchildren were among those to decorate the huge foam tiles, had...

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...stands for democracy and human rights," he said. "Every (artist) had his own perceptions on the fall of the wall," Wowereit said. "I think this international nature, these different points of view and this variety are a secret of the...

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...site to ensure the safety and security of the attendees at the event as well as residents and businesses in the area". Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit said: "The Pariser Platz was the scene for a joyful celebration of peace, love, freedom and...

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