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Date: November 10, 1997
Former Austrian Prime Minister to Speak at Princeton
PRINCETON, N.J. -- The former Prime Minister of Austria, Franz Vranitzky, will speak on "A Common European Foreign and Security Policy? -- The Example of the Crisis in the Balkans" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Tuesday, November 18, at 5:00 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Vranitzky, who was Prime Minister of Austria from 1986 until his resignation in 1997, is presently the personal representative of the chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) special mission to Albania.
Vranitzky was also the chair of Austria's Social Democratic Party from 1988 to 1997. Before his tenure in the government, he was a banker and served as deputy chairman of the board of Creditanstalt-Bankverein from 1976 to 198 1. In 1981 he was named chair of the board of Austrian Landerbank, known today as Bank Austria.
Vranitzky's achievements have earned him many honors and prizes, among them an honorary doctorate from Hebrew University of Jerusalem in recognition of his efforts to improve Austrian-Israeli relations and his forthright statements on Austria's role during the Nazi period. He is also the recipient of the Fulbright Prize, awarded in Washington DC, in recognition of his services to Eastern Europe after the dismantling of the Iron Curtain.
The Woodrow Wilson School, the Center of International Studies, and the Liechtenstein Research Program in Self-Determination are sponsoring his talk.
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