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11 Currently Underway Mar. 25-Sept. 25 2005 World Exposition, Aichi, Japan 11 July 6 - 8 G-8 Summit, Gleneagles, Scotland 11111 This Week 11 July 8 - 13 ... [Read More]
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Sensitivity to members of the Church of Scientology and fears of infiltration remained high. Individual Scientologists were subjected to discrimination in hiring during the year. Scientology leaders complained that the church's bank account was closed without cause and that they did not receive permission to set up an informational tent in downtown Vienna. ... [Read More]
V. Country Narratives -- Countries A through G
Burundi is a source country for children trafficked for the purpose of forced child soldiering. The country is emerging from a 12-year civil war in which government and rebel forces used approximately 3,200 children in a variety of capacities, including as cooks, porters, spies, sex slaves, and combatants. There are reports that the government army and two former rebel groups — the CNDDFDD (Nkurunziza) and the CNDD (Nyangoma) — still have a small number of children in their ranks. While there were unconfirmed reports that these two rebel groups recruited boys in 2004, there were no reports that the army recruited child soldiers. The one rebel faction that remains outside the peace process, the PALOPEHUTU-FNL, continued to recruit and use child soldiers. The Government of Burundi does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, ... [Read More]
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Forced Religious Conversion There were no reports of forced religious conversion, including of minor U.S. citizens who had been abducted or illegally removed from the United States, or of the refusal to allow such citizens to be returned to the United States. Section III. Societal Attitudes Relations among the 13 officially recognized religious societies are generally amicable. Fourteen Christian churches, among them the Roman Catholic Church, various Protestant confessions, and eight Orthodox and old-oriental churches are engaged in a dialog in the framework of the Ecumenical Council of Austrian Churches. The Baptists and the Salvation Army have observer status in the Council. The international Catholic organization "Pro Oriente," which promotes a dialog with the Orthodox churches, also is active in the country. [Read More]
USIA, Economic Perspectives, February 1998 -- CALENDAR
March 16-18 Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)Annual Meeting, Cartagena, Colombia ... April 16-17 IMF/World Bank spring meeting, Washington ... April 17 Joint World Bank-IMF Development meeting,Washington ... [Read More]
US Department Of State Post Report
U.S. Government personnel and authorized family members can cash their personal checks for U.S. dollars and Euros at the Bank-Austria - Creditanstalt (BA-CA)office located in the south annex of the Chancery. The JMO recommends that all personnel maintain a U.S. checking account. A Euro checking account can be a convenience, but Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) which accept U.S. credit and bank cards can be found throughout Austria. Most local bills may be paid by transfers of funds through the Austrian banking and postal systems. Taxes, Exchange, and Sale of PropertyLast Updated: 12/5/2003 5:15 AM ... [Read More]
Austria (02/05)
Austria has a well-developed social market economy with a high standard of living in which the government has played an important role. The government nationalized many of the country's largest firms in the early post-war period to protect them from Soviet takeover as war reparations. For many years, the government and its state-owned industries conglomerate played a very important role in the Austrian economy. However, starting in the early 1990s, the group broke apart, state-owned firms started to operate largely as private businesses, and the government wholly or partially privatized many of these firms. Although the government's privatization work in past years has been very successful, it still operates some firms, state monopolies, utilities, and services. The Schuessel government has presented an ambitious privatization program, which it is implementing, and which should further reduce government participation in the economy. Austria enjoys well-developed industry, banking, tran ... [Read More]
Austria
Austria has a highly developed banking system with worldwide correspondent relationships, as well as representative offices and branches in the United States and other major financial centers. Austrian banks also have a huge network in many of the ten new EU members and other Central and Eastern European countries and the Balkan countries. Total assets of Austria’s five largest banks amounted to about Euro 394 billion (USD 493 billion) in 2003. ... The Austrian Government has expressed a preference for “Austrian solutions” in many sectors, promoting an Austrian core shareholding through syndicates, including banks, insurance companies, pension funds and industrial enterprises. However, foreign investors have been successful in obtaining shares in important Austrian industry sectors, including the telecom sector, in Austria’s largest bank, Bank Austria, the Austrian Tobacco Company, and VA Tech. ... [Read More]
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