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UNVIE provides permanent U.S. representation to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN Office on Drugs & Crime, the Wassenaar Arrangement, and a number of other UN organs with headquarters in Vienna. UNVIE also represents the U.S. before the Preparatory Commission and Provisional Secretariat of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO). The United States only supports activities related to building the International Monitoring System of the CTBTO, not the Treaty itself. UNVIE promotes U.S. global interests on a number of fronts including: prevention of nuclear weapons proliferation; combating international terrorism; fighting the production and abuse of illicit narcotics, curbing international organized crime, corruption, and human trafficking; and controlling transfers of conventional weapons and dual-use technologies. In support of these policies, UNVIE supports over 1000 official visitors each year — from Cabinet officers and large ... [Read More]
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International Parental Child Abduction Austria
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Austria
Austria is a multiparty parliamentary democracy in which constitutional power is shared between the popularly elected President and the 183-member Parliament. Citizens choose their President and representatives in periodic, free, and fair multiparty elections. In 1998, President Thomas Klestil of the Austrian People's Party (OVP) was elected to a 6-year term. In parliamentary elections in November 2002, the OVP received a plurality and renewed its right-center coalition with the Freedom Party (FPO). The judiciary is independent.The national police maintain internal security, and the army is responsible for external security. The civilian authorities maintained effective control of the security forces. There were reports that the police committed some human rights abuses.The country's highly developed, market-based economy, with its mix of technologically advanced industry, modern agriculture, and tourism, affords the ... [Read More]
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