U.S. - AUSTRIA

REPORTS

• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2007 - Austria, U.S. Department of State, March 11, 2008 (complete report)
• International Religious Freedom Report 2008 - Austria, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor/U.S. Department of State, September 19, 2008 (complete report)
• International Narcotics Control Strategy Report 2008, Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs/U.S. Department of State, February 29, 2008
• Country Commercial Guide for Austria, U.S. Commercial Service/U.S. Department of Commerce

SPEECHES and PRESS RELEASES

• David F. Girard-diCarlo to be Nominated as New U.S. Ambassador to Austria, Press Release, U.S. Embassy Vienna, May 23, 2008
• President Bush intends to nominate Charles A. Gargano, of New York, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Austria, The White House, November 5, 2007
• Charles Gargano’s Nomination withdrawn, Press Release, U.S. Embassy Vienna, March 14, 2008
• President Bush to Attend U.S.-EU Summit in Vienna, Austria, Statement by the Press Secretary, The White House, May 3, 2006
• U.S. Sanctions Nine Companies Under Iran Nonproliferation Act, Bush administration imposes penalties on firms in China, India, Austria, U.S. Department of State, December 28, 2005
• Austrian Payments to Holocaust Victims, Press Statement, Adam Ereli, Deputy Spokesman, U.S. Department of State, December 9, 2005
• President Bush and Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel Discuss Human Rights, U.S.-EU Relations, December 8, 2005
• President to Welcome Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel to the White House, The White House, November 23, 2005
• Austrian Authorities Act on ICE Leads; Execute 120 Search Warrants in Massive Child Pornography Probe, News Release, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement/U.S. Department of Homeland Security, June 13, 2005

• Visit of U.S. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft to Vienna, January 26 and 27, 2004
• Press Conference with Austrian Interior Minister Ernst Strasser, Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior, January 26, 2004


• Statements of Attorney General John D. Ashcroft and Austrian Interior Minister Ernst Strasser, "Cobra" Training Base, Wiener Neustadt, January 27, 2004


• U.S.-EU Security Issues: Meeting New Challenges, welcoming remarks by Ambassador W. L. Lyons Brown at the Diplomatic Academy, March 5, 2002
• Press releases - U.S. Department of State

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

• Background Note: Austria - Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs/U.S. Department of State

SELECTED ORGANIZATIONS

• Austrians Abroad - Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs
• Auslandsösterreicher-Weltbund
• Austro-American Society in Vienna
• Austro-American Society in Upper Austria
• Austro-American Society in Carinthia
• Austro-American Institute of Education
• American Chamber of Commerce in Austria
• American Women's Association
• The American Austrian Foundation Inc.

AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT

• Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs
• Austrian Embassy and Consulates in the United States
• Austrian Cultural Forum, New York City
• Austria Press & Information Service, Washington, D.C.
• Austrians Abroad

RELATED SUBJECTS

• Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the conference "Women Leaders - Networking for Peace and Security in the Middle East, Vienna, Austria, May 31, 2007
• The Marshall Plan - Commemorating the 60th Anniversary, web page, Public Affairs Section/U.S. Embassy Vienna
• Holocaust Issues - web page compiled by the Public Affairs Section/U.S. Embassy Vienna, Austria with background documents, useful links, official statements, including the text of the Nazi-era Forced Labor Compensation Agreement signed on October 24, 2000
• Presidential Visits to Austria - Office of the Historian/Bureau of Public Affairs/U.S. Department of State
• Former U.S. Ambassadors to Austria