Former Romanian Prime Minister and the Czech Ambassador honoured a memory of Václav Havel together with other participants, among which there were e.g. Nobel Prize laureates Auung San Suu Kyi, Frederik de Klerk and Tibetan Dalai Lama, a singer Joan Baez and many other important guests. The theme of this year´s FORUM 2000 Conference was "Societies in Transition". Petre Roman also laid flowers on the grave of František Kriegel, a life-long friend of his father and the Czechoslovakian politic, who in 1968 boldly refused to sign a protocol legalizing a Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Petre Roman and Jiří Šitler also attended a reception hosted by the Romanian Ambassador to Prague Mrs. Daniela Gitman.