Austrian Embassy in Skopje

Austrian Embassy Skopje Austrian Authority
State level	Federation
Position of the authority	Foreign mission : Embassy
At sight	Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs
founding	1997
Headquarters	Skopje , Mile Popjordanov 8 ⊙ Coordinates: 41 ° 59 ′ 38.4 ″  N , 21 ° 24 ′ 27.9 ″  E
Authority management	ao. and bev. Ambassador: Renate Kobler
Website	on bmeia.gv.at

The Austrian Embassy in Skopje ( Macedonian Австриската амбасада Скопје / Avstriskata ambasada Skopje , Albanian  Ambasadës austriake në Shkup ) is the headquarters of the Austrian Ambassador in northern Macedonia , the diplomatic representative of the Republic of Austria in the Republic of Northern Macedonia ( Republika Makedonija Severna ).

history

What is now Macedonia belonged to the Ottoman Empire until 1912 , diplomatic relations of the Habsburg Monarchy ran through the Austrian embassy at the Sublime Porte in Istanbul. From 1918 to 1941 it was part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and then Yugoslavia , with the responsible embassy in Belgrade . On September 8, 1991 it announced its independence. Diplomatic relations with Austria were established on December 23, 1994. In 1995 the North Macedonian embassy opened in Vienna .

In August 1997 the Austrian Embassy in Skopje was opened. The Austria Library followed on December 21, 2001 in cooperation with the University of Bitola .

With the status of EU candidate country in December 2005 , relations were intensified. In January 2007 an attaché for cultural issues and international cooperation was accredited, and in July 2007 an office for the liaison officer of the Ministry of the Interior (police attaché) was set up. Since 2013 Austria has also been inviting North Macedonia to the Western Balkans Conferences , which are taking place in Vienna.

North Macedonian-Austrian relations

Relations between the two countries have always been "very friendly", and Austria is the EU member that supports the accession of North Macedonia most intensively.

From an economic point of view, trade relations are relatively unimportant for Austria. In 2014, the volume of foreign trade between Austria and North Macedonia was 118 million to 69 million euros, which is only around 0.1% of foreign trade. However, it contributes to its importance as one of the main players in the Western Balkans: Austria is the second most important economic partner for North Macedonia after the Netherlands , direct investment  (FDI) in North Macedonia in 2014 amounted to around 500 million euros.

An important cooperation is the support in police matters by the Austrian Ministry of the Interior . The Western Balkans Conferences are an important basis for understanding on important geopolitical issues. The promotion of social policy issues and networking with European and international institutions is underlined by the Ministry of Social Affairs' own liaison officer (social attaché) .

The cultural exchange is also close ,

In addition to the Austrian library, artist exchange programs and cultural events, the embassy takes care of scholarships and research funding for students and scientists. A special program is the k-education project office Skopje of the Ministry of Education and KulturKontakt Austria .

organization

The seat of the Austrian Embassy in Skopje is the North Macedonian capital Skopje , in the Mile Popjordanov No. 8 in Kozle in the Karpoš district .

The message also includes:

• The office police attachés
• Office of the Social Attaché (seat at the Ministry of Social Affairs in Vienna)
• Foreign Trade Center Skopje Trgovsko oddelenie pri Avstriska Ambasada Skopje

Other diplomatic agencies:

• Honorary Consulate General Skopje
• Honorary Consulate Bitola
• Austria Library Bitola ( Avstriska biblioteka ); in the National Library of the University of St. Kliment von Ohrid in Bitola ( NUUB Sv.Kliment Ohridsk )
• The Defense Attaché for North Macedonia is also based in Belgrade

List of Austrian ambassadors

List incomplete

Surname	Term of office	Remarks
Austria  →  North Macedonia
	... -
Philipp Hoyos	(?) - 2011	before u. a. Ambassador to Jordan
Thomas Michael Baier	November 2011 - September 2015	before that Ambassador to Ethiopia , AU , Ambassador to Algeria , ITF / IHRA
Renate Kobler	September 2015 -	before that ambassador to Estonia

See also

• List of Austrian ambassadors
• North Macedonian Embassy in Vienna

Web links

• Official website of the embassy (at bmeia.gv.at; Macedonian )
• Travel information: North Macedonia (Republic of North Macedonia) , Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Foreign trade - North Macedonia , Austrian Chamber of Commerce

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Bilateral Relations: Europe → Austria. Министерство За Надворешни Работи (Macedonian Embassy in Austria), mfa.gov.mk, accessed March 8, 2016 - with a list of meetings and mutual visits by high-ranking politicians.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Macedonia: Austrian Library Bitola ( Memento from March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) oesterreich-bibliotheken.at, accessed February 26, 2016.
3. ^ Reopening of the Austrian Library Bitola ( Memento from March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), oesterreich-bibliotheken.at
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Bilateral Relations: Social ( Memento from March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) bmeia.gv.at → Foreign policy: Embassy Skopje (accessed March 4, 2016);
   Originally the co-accreditation of the attachés sent to Croatia in January 2007 (Gero Stuller), which became obsolete when Croatia joined the EU in 2014 and has since been carried out for Macedonia from Vienna. Compare Report of the Court of Auditors - Attachments. Bund 2014/13, point 7.3, p. 335 (p. 41 of the individual report).
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Bilateral Relations: Home Affairs & Police Matters. ( Memento of March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) bmeia.gv.at → Foreign policy: Embassy Skopje (accessed March 6, 2016).
6. ^ Quote from Renate Kobler, Welcome to the homepage of the Austrian Embassy in Skopje ( Memento from March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) undated (2015), accessed March 8, 2015.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Foreign Trade - Macedonia ( Memento from March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , Austrian Chamber of Commerce, accessed March 8, 2016.
8. ↑ 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).
9. ↑ ^{a b} Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Austria and the Government of the Republic of Macedonia on cultural cooperation on ris.bka.gv.at
10. ↑ Република Македонија. Kulturkontakt.or.at (Macedonian).
11. ↑ Contact: Skopje Foreign Trade Center. ( Memento from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) wko.at (address: Skopje, Maksim Gorki br. 1);
    was the Skopje branch of the Foreign Trade Center Belgrade (Serbia) until 2015 .
12. ↑ (Address: Skopje, Dimitar Pandilov 20)
13. ↑ ^{a b} (Address: Skopje, Ul.Leninova br. 39)
14. ↑ Националната установа - Универзитетска библиотека "Св. Климент Охридски "(nuub.mk)
15. ↑ Bilateral Relations: Military ( Memento of March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) bmeia.gv.at → Foreign Policy: Embassy Skopje (accessed March 4, 2016).