Peter Jankowitsch

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Peter Jankowitsch (born July 10, 1933 in Vienna ) is an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and diplomat . As the successor to Leopold Gratz and the predecessor of Alois Mock, he was the eleventh Foreign Minister of the Second Republic.

Life

Foreign policy work

After studying law at the University of Vienna , where he was awarded a Dr. iuris, Peter Jankowitsch, whose political career began as chairman of the Association of Socialist Students  (VSStÖ), joined the Austrian Foreign Ministry in 1957 . In 1964 he opened - as the youngest ambassador since the existence of the republic - Austria's first embassy in francophone Africa in Dakar ( Senegal ). In 1970 he became head of cabinet of Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky , one of whose closest collaborators he was. In 1972 he moved to New York as permanent representative (chief delegate) of Austria to the United Nations (until 1978). In this function, he was Austria's first representative on the United Nations Security Council until 1974 and its rotating chairman. In 1972 Peter Jankowitsch also took over the chairmanship of COPUOS . 1978–83 Jankowitsch was Austria's permanent representative at the OECD in Paris.

In 1983 he moved to the National Council and was International Secretary of the SPÖ. 1986–1987 he became Foreign Minister under Vranitzky (first cabinet ), and then from December 1990 to April 1992 first European State Secretary ( integration and development cooperation, third ).

In 1993 he returned to the diplomatic service and was again permanent representative to the OECD and ESA until 1998 . He campaigned intensively for their opening to the new democracies of Eastern and Central Europe. As the lead co-negotiator of the Multinational Investment Agreement  (MIA), he endeavored to achieve a “fair balance between winners and losers” of globalization. During this time, Jankowitsch also chaired the EFTA Parliamentary Assembly , the Austria-EC Joint Parliamentary Committee and the Human Rights Commission of the Socialist International  (SI). He dealt with concerns of the developing countries in the Socialist International at the side of its President Willy Brandt . He also served as co-chair of the SI's first Africa committee . He was also an observer of Austria at the Movement of Non-Aligned States  (NAM) and the International Organization of Francophonie and headed the Vienna Institute for Development  Issues and Cooperation (VIDC) founded by Bruno Kreisky .

Since 1998 Jankowitsch has been General Secretary of the Austro-French Center for Rapprochement in Europe  (OEFZ) and President of the Society Austria Vietnam  (GÖV). He is also President of the Jerusalem Foundation in Austria , Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Aerospace Agency , and Honorary President of the Austrian Society for European Politics . Since 2008 Jankowitsch has also been Vice President of the non-partisan Austrian Society for Foreign Policy and the United Nations (ÖGAVN).

Domestic career

  • 1970–1973 Head of Cabinet of the Federal Chancellor (at the time of the Kreisky I government )
  • 1983–1986 Member of the National Council (XVI. GP), SPÖ
  • June 16, 1986 to January 21, 1987 Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs in the short cabinet Vranitzky I
  • 1987–1990 Member of the National Council (XVII. – XVIII. GP), SPÖ
  • Chairman of the Foreign Policy Committee of the National Council
  • International secretary and foreign policy spokesman for the SPÖ
  • December 17, 1990 to April 3, 1993 State Secretary for European Affairs in the Federal Chancellery in the Vranitzky III cabinet
  • Honorary President of the Austrian Society for European Politics
  • Special Representative of the Federal Government for the coordination of the efforts for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council
  • Chairman of the “Jankowitsch Commission” to clarify the scandal surrounding visa trade at Austrian diplomatic missions abroad

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Short biography: 100 Years of Bruno Kreisky - Myth and Reality. Program, Diplomatic Academy, January 11, 2011, p. 2 (pdf, etalks.tv, accessed February 16, 2016).
  2. Peter Habison: Space-Land Austria - Pioneers of space travel tell. Seifert, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-902924-19-3 , p. 141.
  3. ^ Austro-French Center for Rapprochement in Europe
  4. ↑ Office of the Federal President
predecessor Office successor
- Austrian Ambassador to Senegal
1964–1970
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Kurt Waldheim Permanent representative of Austria to the United Nations in New York
1973–1978
Thomas Klestil
? Chairman of the UN Security Council
1973–1974
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Carl Heinz Bobleter Permanent representative of Austria to the OECD in Paris
1978–1983
Georg Lennkh