the next item is the edition of vaclav's havel letters from 1983. from the time he himself was still in jail, serving a four-year sentence for subversion of the republic. this text today is seen as the most important accumulation of havel's philosophy. it is in my view clear proof that vaclav is not an academic but a life stance, requiring not only capacity to think with the help of highly abstract concepts but most of all personal courage and power of the human spirit. third, we are pleased to offer the orryal letter by vaclav havel written in december of 2004, free cuban dissidents, for the nobel peace prize. what we have here is not just an act of solidarity by a former central european dissident with his cuban friends believing as he did in the power of the powerless it is also vaclav havel's appeal to the international community. peace can be reached by appeasing dictators by policies which should remain realistic but at the same time standing firm behind human rights defenders. to help them to emerge out from their eyeslation and to legitimize