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05VIENNA3397
2005-10-19 08:37:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Vienna
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UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY CONVENTION -- FOLLOW-UP

Tags:  ETRD PREL SCUL AU UNESCO 
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UNCLAS VIENNA 003397 

SIPDIS

STATE FOR IO/UNESCO AND EUR/AGS - VIKMANIS-KELLER

COMMERCE FOR ITA/USFCS - THOMAS MOORE AND ITA/MAC - KELLY

PARSONS

E.O. 12958: N/A

TAGS: ETRD PREL SCUL AU UNESCO
SUBJECT: UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY CONVENTION -- FOLLOW-UP

DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA

REF: A. (A) VIENNA 3375


B. (B) STATE 189518


C. (C) VIENNA 3322


D. (D) STATE 184292


E. (E) VIENNA 3246


F. (F) STATE 170909

UNCLAS VIENNA 003397

SIPDIS

STATE FOR IO/UNESCO AND EUR/AGS - VIKMANIS-KELLER

COMMERCE FOR ITA/USFCS - THOMAS MOORE AND ITA/MAC - KELLY

PARSONS

E.O. 12958: N/A

TAGS: ETRD PREL SCUL AU UNESCO
SUBJECT: UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY CONVENTION -- FOLLOW-UP

DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA

REF: A. (A) VIENNA 3375


B. (B) STATE 189518


C. (C) VIENNA 3322


D. (D) STATE 184292


E. (E) VIENNA 3246


F. (F) STATE 170909


1. Following up on delivery of Secretary Gutierrez's letter

on Friday, October 14 (ref a),EconPolCouns and Senior

Commercial Officer met on October 18 with Gabriela

Habermayer, head of the Multilateral Trade Affairs Division

of the Austrian Ministry for Economics and Labor.


2. Habermayer said Austria supported the current draft of

the UNESCO Cultural Diversity Convention. She noted that the

convention had responded to discussions in Europe of the need

to define Europe's cultural identity. After the defeat of

the EU constitutional referendum in France earlier this year,

Europeans had given even more support to the concepts in the

Cultural Diversity Convention.


3. On the trade aspects of the convention, Austria has

argued that international agreements should be mutually

supportive, Habermayer said. There was no change in the EU

position on the General Agreement on Trade in Services, she

noted. Austria suppoorted the principle of not including

cultural aspects in GATS discussions, she added.

van Voorst