Austrian Embassy in Sarajevo
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| State level | Federation | ||
| Position of the authority | Foreign mission : Embassy | ||
| At sight | Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs | ||
| founding | 1997 | ||
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 Sarajevo , Džidžikovac 7 ⊙
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| Authority management | ao. and bev. Ambassador: Ulrike Hartmann |
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| Website | on bmeia.gv.at | ||
The Austrian Embassy in Sarajevo ( Bosnian Ambasada Austrije u Sarajevu ) is the headquarters of the Austrian Ambassador in Bosnia and Herzegovina , the diplomatic representative of the Republic of Austria in Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Bosna i Hercegovina ), in Sarajevo .
history
Bosnia , with the south-western region of Herzegovina attached to it today , emerged in the 16th century as Eyâlet Bosnia , a province of the Ottoman Empire . It was right on the Austrian military border during the Turkish Wars . The diplomacy of the Habsburg Monarchy ran through the Austrian embassy at the Sublime Porte in Istambul. In 1878 Austria-Hungary occupied this part of the “ sick man on the Bosporus ”, and the crisis of formal annexation in 1908 and the assassination attempt in Sarajevo in 1914 on the Austrian heir to the throne ultimately triggered the First World War . For Bosnia - although an Islamic country - Austria was welcome as a protective power, and the country was well integrated, for example Austria recognized Islam as a religion as early as 1912 , and during the war the Bosniak troops were considered the most loyal to the emperor. In the multi-ethnic state, however, this led to tensions, because it further upset the already highly unstable equilibrium of the German Austrians, Hungarians and Slavs in particular. Therefore, until the end of the war, Bosnia was not allocated to either of the two parts of the empire ( Cisleithania / Austria and Transleithania / Hungary), but was administered jointly (by the kuk Ministry of Finance ).
After the war, the region became part of the Kingdom, then the Republic of Yugoslavia . The Austrian embassy in Belgrade in Serbia was now diplomatically responsible . In the Second World War, after the Balkan campaign in 1941, Bosnia became part of the vassal state of Croatia , but was largely liberated by the partisans under Tito in 1943 . The rest of the story was shaped by the Cold War , in which Yugoslavia was considered neutral but friendly to Russia.
After the break-up of Yugoslavia , Bosnia and Herzegovina was recognized internationally on April 7, 1992. But the Bosnian War broke out, a struggle between the Muslim Bosnians, Serbs and Croats for their respective territories in the country, which was settled with the 1995 Dayton Agreement . In particular the ethnic cleansing of the Serbs, but also Croats, plunged the country into an immense humanitarian crisis. In the Bosnia de facto support campaign , Austria accepted 90,000 asylum seekers, and the Neighbor in Need initiative started on this occasion became one of the most successful fundraising campaigns in Austria. Therefore, Austria has a large Bosnian community to this day .
On April 6, 1994, an Austrian ambassador resided in Sarajevo, the same year the embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina was opened in Vienna . The Austrian Embassy has been operational since June 1997, it was opened on November 21, 1997, parallel to the embassy field office in Banja Luka. The Austrian libraries in Sarajevo and Tuzla were opened in 1996, followed by the one in Banja Luka in 2008.
Since then, intensive political, diplomatic and cultural-political contacts have been cultivated, especially in support of the EU accession process . In December 2010 the country became an official candidate for accession. In March 2012, the Republika Srpska , the Serbian part of the country, opened its own representative office in Vienna .
Bosnian-Herzegovinian-Austrian relations
Relations between the two countries have always been "very friendly",
There are important collaborations with the state, which is still in the consolidation phase, with regard to the unstable situation in the Balkans in the area of internal affairs and police cooperation , in the military , in questions of labor and social affairs , and in cooperation with European and international institutions, for these issues the Austrian authorities Ministries have their own attachés. The Western Balkans Conferences are an important basis for understanding on important geopolitical issues.
The bilateral economic relations are only in the process of being established, and the balance sheet is somewhat in favor of Bosnia-Herzegovina ( foreign trade volume 2014 Austria to Bosnia-Herzegovina 346 million to 456 million euros). For Austria the partner is comparatively unimportant (around 0.25% of foreign trade), but contributes to the importance of being one of the main actors in the Western Balkans: For Bosnia-Herzegovina, Austria is the with a cumulative investment capital of around 1.3 billion euros largest investor in the country, ahead of the neighboring countries Serbia , Croatia and Slovenia , Austria made almost 20% of the total foreign direct investments since 1994 until 2014. Austrian companies are market leaders in many sectors, for example in the financial sector and the building materials sector.
The cultural exchange is also close , in addition to the Austria libraries, artist exchange programs and cultural events, as well as the brokerage of scholarships, programs such as the 2016 Cultural Year Austria and Bosnia-Herzegovina are part of the cultural work abroad in the Western Balkans focus region . The k-education project office Sarajewo of the Ministry of Education and KulturKontakt Austria is a special program .
organization
The headquarters of the Austrian Embassy in Sarajevo is the Bosnian-Herzegovinian capital Sarajevo , in Dzidzikovac No. 7 in Mejtaš in Sarajevo-Centar , directly at Veliki Park .
The message also includes:
- Defense Attaché's Office
- Attaché to the Ministry of the Interior
- Office of the social attaché
- Foreign Trade Center Sarajevo (Trade Department of the Austrian Embassy Sarajevo)
Other diplomatic agencies:
- Austrian cooperation office in science, education and culture of the Austrian Cultural Association at the University of Sarajevo
- Educational Cooperation Officer - k · education Project Office Sarajevo
- Austria Library Sarajevo ( Austrijska biblioteka ); in the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina (NUBBiH)
- Austria Library Banja Luka ; at the University of Banja Luka
- Austria Library Tuzla ; in the National and University Library "Derviš Sušić" Tuzla
List of Austrian ambassadors
| Surname | Term of office | Remarks | |
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 Austria → Bosnia and Herzegovina
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| Franz Arch | April 6, 1994-1996 | ||
| Valentin Inzko | 1996-1999 | before u. a. Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia ; then Ambassador to Slovenia , UN High Representative and EU Special Representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina | |
| Gerhard Jandl | 2000-2005 | before that chairman of the EU-Balkans working group; then Ambassador to Serbia , Director of Security Policy BMEIA | |
| Werner Almhofer | March 9, 2005 - May 2009 | before that to various mess. and at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; then head of the OSCE mission in Kosovo | |
| Donatus Koeck | June 2009 - September 2013 | ||
| Martin Pammer | October 2013 - | previously ambassador to Montenegro | |
| Ulrike Hartmann | |||
See also
Web links
- Official website of the embassy (at bmeia.gv.at; Bosnian / Croatian / Serbian )
- Travel information: Bosnia and Herzegovina (Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina) , Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Foreign trade - Bosnia and Herzegovina , Austrian Chamber of Commerce
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Werner Weilguni: Austrian-Yugoslav cultural relations 1945–1989. Volume 17 of the series of publications of the Austrian Institute for Eastern and South Eastern Europe , Oldenbourg Verlag, 1990, ISBN 3-7028-0297-5 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ↑ cf. Ednan Aslan: Mulime and her future in Austria. In: Austrian Yearbook for Politics. 2007, pp. 257–271 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ^ Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Austria (www.bh-botschaft.at) .
- ↑ Austrian Yearbook. Bundespressedienst, 1998, p. 294.
- ↑ Foreign policy report: Report of the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs 1998, p. 281 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ↑ Founding libraries. ( Memento from March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) oesterreich-bibliotheken.at, accessed March 8, 2016.
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^ Republika Srpska - regional representation in Austria (www.rep-srpska.at) ;
cf. Controversial representative offices of the Republika Srpska. In: the standard. online, March 23, 2012;
Milorad Dodik: "We also want to sue Valentin Inzko". Interview, Die Presse online, March 23, 2012. - ↑ Quote ..., Witaj k nam on the homepage of the Austrian Embassy Sarajevo. http://www.bmeia.gv.at/botschaft/sarajevo/die-botschaft.html (link not available)
- ^ A b Bilateral Relations: Home Affairs & Police Matters. ( Memento of March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) bmeia.gv.at → Foreign policy: Embassy Skopje (accessed March 9, 2016).
- ↑ a b Bilateral Relations: Military. ( Memento of March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) bmeia.gv.at → Foreign policy: Embassy Skopje (accessed March 9, 2016).
- ↑ a b http://www.bmeia.gv.at/botschaft/sarajevo/bilaterale-belösungen/soziales.html (link not available)
- ↑ a b c d e http://www.bmeia.gv.at/botschaft/sarajevo/bilaterale-belösungen/wirtschaft.html (link not available)
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↑ cf. Austria's foreign trade relations with the Western Balkans. Wirtschaftsforschungsinstitut, Vienna, April 28, 2014, especially Overview 1: Austria's foreign trade with the Western Balkans ;
For more recent figures, see Austria's foreign trade with the EU member states that joined the EU since 2004 in 1,000 euros. , and for comparison Austria's most important trading partners in 2014. Both Statistics Austria: Key data for foreign trade (accessed March 10, 2016). - ↑ a b c http://www.bmeia.gv.at/botschaft/sarajevo/bilaterale-behaben/kultur.html (link not available)
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↑ Foreign Minister Kurz opens the Year of Culture Austria and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Broadcast by the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs, Vienna, January 27, 2016;
Cultural year 2016: Austria and Bosnia-Herzegovina. integrationsfonds.at, accessed March 9, 2016. - ↑ Contact: Foreign Trade Center Sarajevo. ( Memento from March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) wko.at (Address: Sarajewo, Zmaja od Bosne bb, Zgrada RBBH objekat B).
- ↑ (Pravni facultet / Judex 4/410).
- ↑ (Address: Sarajevo, Vilsonovo šetalište 10 / II / 236).
- ^ Macedonia: Austria Library Sarajevo. ( Memento from March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) oesterreich-bibliotheken.at, accessed March 8, 2016 (address: Sarajevo, Zmaja od Bosne 8B / Soba 211).
- ^ Macedonia: Austrian Library Banja Luka. ( Memento from March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) oesterreich-bibliotheken.at, accessed March 8, 2016 (address: Banja Luka, Filozofski fakultet, Bulevar vojvode Petra Bojovića 1A).
- ^ Macedonia: Austrian Library Tuzla. ( Memento from March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) oesterreich-bibliotheken.at, accessed March 8, 2016 (address: Sarajevo, Zmaja od Bosne 8B / Soba 211).
