Austrian Foreign Ministry Opens Ambassadors Conference 2022

PeopleOther ♦ Published: September 5, 2022; 19:22 ♦ (Vindobona)

Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg welcomed the ambassadors to this year's Ambassadors' Conference of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, which takes place in Vienna and Klosterneuburg. The week-long conference brings together the heads of Austrian embassies and permanent representations to intensify the exchange among themselves and with their colleagues in Vienna.

Foreign Minister Schallenberg explained with conviction, that the Foreign Ministry is "pulling together to position Austria even better in the world." / Picture: © BMEIA Bundesministerium für Europa, Integration und Äußeres / Kulhanek / Flickr Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)

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