Anton Prohaska

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Anton Prohaska (born February 4, 1940 in Vienna ) is an Austrian diplomat .

Life

Anton Prohaska went to school in Austria and Italy . He studied law at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in law .

Prohaska was first married to Carla Zadra (Italy), born in Salurn , second marriage to (Sherifa) Sheikha (bint Hussein) Alatas (Saudi Arabia), born in Singapore and widow of Sakim bin Laden .

He lives in Paris , Vienna and Riyadh .

Foreign service

Prohaska joined the foreign service of the Republic of Austria in 1963. His professional life as an Austrian diplomat and beyond, took place mainly abroad, with assignments in multilateral and bilateral diplomacy being balanced.

Multilateral and bilateral diplomacy

From 1963 to 1965 Prohaska was employed in the legal and economic policy section of the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Vienna. From 1965 to 1967 he worked in the Permanent Mission of Austria to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg , then until 1971 in the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations in New York . In 1972 Kurt Waldheim appointed him head of the office of the Secretary General of the United Nations .

In 1975 he was entrusted with setting up the Middle East Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vienna. From 1976 to 1979 he was head of cabinet of Austria's Foreign Minister Willibald Pahr . From 1979 to 1983 he was Austrian ambassador to UNESCO in Paris. In 1983 he was sent to Saudi Arabia as an ambassador . He was co-accredited in the Sultanate of Oman , the Yemen Arab Republic and the United Arab Emirates. From 1987 to 1993 he worked again in the Ministry in Vienna, among other things he was assigned to General Secretary Thomas Klestil for special use from 1988 to 1989 (for the Gulf Cooperation Council GCC and Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASEAN ). He was Head of Department for the Western Hemisphere ( North and South America ) and carried out special missions of an economic, political and humanitarian nature in the Balkans and the Near and Middle East . Most recently (1988–1993) he took on the relations with Lebanon as a non-resident ambassador when Agrément was granted , since the Austrian embassy in Beirut had been evacuated because of the civil war there.

From 1993 to 1998 he was Ambassador to UNESCO in Paris and elected representative on the Executive Council. He was then ambassador to Switzerland until 2001 and ambassador to France from 2002 to 2007 . At the same time he was the permanent representative of Austria to UNESCO. From 2004 to 2007 he was Austria's permanent observer at the International Organization of Francophonie (OIF).

Special uses

Several times special ambassador to follow-up after (state) visits by Federal Presidents, Federal Chancellors and Foreign Ministers. In 1989 he went on special missions to Damascus , Tehran and Riyadh. In 1990 the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) carried out a special mission to ward off a boycott threat and visits to the six Gulf Cooperation States during the second Gulf War (when Kuwait established its government in Taif, Saudi Arabia). In 1991 he was deployed as a special envoy to rescue hostages in Lebanon. In the same year Prohaska organized the repatriation of members of the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF , Israel Defense Forces IDF) from Syria via Vienna to Israel .

In 1992 Prohaska acted as special envoy during the Balkan wars with visits to Ankara , Cairo , the Arab League , Saudi Arabia, Tehran, Riyadh and the organization of the Islamic Conference in Jeddah . After Austria joined the EU , another mission took place in these countries. Between 2008 and 2017 Anton Prohaska served as the Chargé de Mission of the Director General of UNESCO (with diplomatic projects in Central and Southeastern Europe and the Middle East ). During this time he also took on missions as a special envoy in Africa on the occasion of Austria's candidacy for the UN Security Council ( 2008 ) and as a special envoy for the liberation of Austrian al-Qaida hostages in Mali , subsequently working with Sweden , Spain and Switzerland on their behalf Hostages (2008).

In 2009 Prohaska was the special ambassador for Austria's candidacy for the office of Director General of UNESCO with EU Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner . In 2012, the year of the coup d'état of the Malian armed forces, he was an advisor to President Amadou Toumani Touré in Mali , followed by a humanitarian mediation mission in Mali (2013).

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diplomat Anton Prohaska - derStandard.at. Accessed July 31, 2020 (Austrian German).
  2. ^ Franz Cede, Christian Prosl: Claim and Reality: Austria's Foreign Policy since 1945 . StudienVerlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7065-5754-2 ( google.de [accessed on July 31, 2020]).
  3. ^ Diplomat Anton Prohaska - derStandard.at. Accessed July 31, 2020 (Austrian German).
  4. ↑ 17 03 2008 at 18:21: A diplomat for all cases. March 17, 2008, accessed July 31, 2020 .
  5. ^ Franz Cede, Christian Prosl: Ambition and Reality: Austria's Foreign Policy since 1945 . StudienVerlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7065-5863-1 ( google.de [accessed July 31, 2020]).
  6. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: kidnapping drama: liberated Austrian al-Qaida hostages in safety - DER SPIEGEL - politics. Accessed July 31, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Plassnik: "Stability, perseverance and diplomacy as success factors" - BMEIA, Austrian Foreign Ministry. Accessed July 31, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Prohaska, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna