AUSTRIA ON MAY 31-JUNE 1 COUNTERTERRORISM

UNCLAS VIENNA 001279 SIPDIS SIPDIS STATE FOR EUR/RPM - PROSEN, S/CT - RANGASWAMY AND EUR/AGS USOSCE FOR SIBILLA E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: OSCE PREL PTER RS SP AU SUBJECT: AUSTRIA ON MAY 31-JUNE 1 COUNTERTERRORISM CONFERENCE REF: STATE 62142 ¶1. EconPolCouns delivered reftel demarche on May 14 to Klaus Famira of the Austria MFA's OSCE office. Fammira said he thought Austria would designate a senior Interior Ministry official as head of delegation to the May 31-June 1 Counter-Terrorism Conference. He did not yet know exactly who it would be. ¶2. Famira thanked us for informing him that Frank Urbancic will head the U.S. delegation. He asked for as much information as possible on the make-up of the rest of the U.S. delegation. He confessed that he was unsure of the type of people he should include in the delegation. ¶3. (Note: We had planned to present this demarche jointly with a Russian Embassy officer. However, at the last minute, our Russian counterpart had to regret because of a health emergency that landed him in the hospital. We conveyed the results of the demarche to his colleagues at the Russian Embassy.) McCaw