AUSTRIA: REQUEST FOR NAMES, TITLES AND CONTACT

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SUBJECT: AUSTRIA: REQUEST FOR NAMES, TITLES AND CONTACT
NUMBERS FOR LEADING GOVERNMENT AND POLITICAL FIGURES

REF: 04 STATE 271552

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1. Embassy Vienna's updated contact information for leading
government officials is as follows:

Post: Vienna, Austria
Date of Submission: January 14, 2004

Head of State: Univ. Prof. Dr. Heinz Fischer
Title: Federal President
Office Tel: (43)(1) 53422-201 (or -202, -204)
Office Fax: (43)(1) 53422-208
Residence: (43)(1) 408-2655
Comments: President Fischer speaks fluent English. His
secretary answers this phone and speaks English.

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Head of Government: Dr. Wolfgang Schuessel
Title: Federal Chancellor
Office Tel: (43)(1) 53115-2305 (or -2950)
Office Fax: (43)(1) 53115-2705
Office Tel - After Hours: (43)(1) 53115-3360
Comments: Chancellor Schuessel speaks excellent English. His
secretary answers this phone and also speaks English. There

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is no residence number for Chancellor Schuessel. After
hours, the Department can contact him through his Foreign
Policy Advisor Hans Peter Manz at(43)(664) 545-8083 (cell
phone) or through his Chief of Cabinet Martin Falb at
(43)(664) 142-7711 (cell phone).

Foreign Minister: Dr. Ursula Plassnik
Title: Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs
Office Tel: (43)(5) 01150-3350, (or -3419, -3362)
Office Tel - After Hours: (43)(5) 01150-3326
Office Fax: (43)(1) 535-5091 (office of Chief of Cabinet Dr.
Michael Zimmerman)
Chief of Cabinet's Cell: 43-676-8999-7895
Foreign Minister Plassnik speaks excellent English. Her
secretary answers the office phone and speaks English.

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2. The following are additional names that the Secretary,
Deputy Secretary, or Undersecretary for Political Affairs may
need to contact:

Secretary General in the Foreign Ministry (Deputy Secretary

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Equivalent): Dr. Johannes Kyrle
Title: Secretary General for Foreign Affairs
Office Tel: (43)(5) 01150-3468
Office Fax: (43)(5) 01159-200 or (43)(5) 01150-311
Residence: (43)(1) 320-3397
Comments: Secretary General Kyrle speaks excellent English.

Deputy Secretary General: Dr. Hans Winkler
Title: Deputy Secretary General and Director of the
International Law Office
Office Tel: (43)(5) 01150-3369
Office Fax: (43)(5) 01159-3369 (or -310)
Residence: (43)(1) 319-4198
Comment: Dr. Winkler speaks excellent English.

Political Director in the Foreign Ministry: Dr. Thomas
Mayr-Harting
Title: Political Director
Office Tel: (43)(5) 01150-3488
Office Fax: (43)(5) 01159-3488 or (43)(1) 53185-220
Residence: (43)(1) 713-8255
Comments: Political Director Mayr-Harting speaks excellent
English.

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