INTERPOL REQUEST FOR BIOTERRORISM TRAINING

UNCLAS VIENNA 002945

SIPDIS

STATE FOR EUR/AGS AND OES/IHA (LAURITZEN)

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KCRM TBIO PTER AU
SUBJECT: INTERPOL REQUEST FOR BIOTERRORISM TRAINING
MATERIALS - AUSTRIAN RESPONSE

REF: STATE 146584


1. EconPolOff delivered reftel demarche on September 2 to
Tibor Benczur-Juris, Director of the Office for International
Relations, in the Interior Ministry's Federal Agency for
State Protection and Counterterrorism.


2. Benczur-Juris agreed that Interpol's Bioterrorism
Prevention Initiative was extremely timely and important. He
said that more international collaboration is needed in this
area and that his Ministry would begin work right away to see
what, if any, training materials the GOA could provide to
Interpol, including the names of any bioterrorism experts.
EconPolOff also left a non-paper with Benczur-Juris on the
initiative and encouraged his office to send any available
information directly to Interpol's Bioterrorism Unit, per ref.


3. Benczur-Juris said he would follow up with post in about
a week.
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