AUSTRIA: UNSC SUMMIT INVITATION DELIVERED

UNCLAS VIENNA 001084 SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR IO/UNP AND EUR/CE E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREL PARM UNSC MNUC KSUM KNNP AU SUBJECT: AUSTRIA: UNSC SUMMIT INVITATION DELIVERED REF: STATE 88798 ¶1. (U) Ambassador delivered reftel invitation August 27 to Juergen Meindl, foreign policy advisor to Chancellor Faymann, who was out of town. Ambassador emphasized that President Obama's decision to hold the September 24 UNSC summit on nuclear nonproliferation reflects the high priority he places on the issue. He said the USG was encouraging UNSC members to participate at the level of the highest policy-making official, and that he therefore hoped the Chancellor would be able to attend. ¶2. (U) Meindl said he would contact Faymann immediately to discuss the invitation. He noted that President Fischer (whose position is largely ceremonial) would attend the UNGA, and asked whether other European policy-making leaders were being invited; the Ambassador said they were. Meindl averred that Faymann also considers nonproliferation a top foreign policy issue, and that the GOA is interested in developing close ties with the Obama administration. He promised to inform the Embassy as soon as he learned of Faymann's decision on attendance. EACHO