A conference on Austrian-Jewish Relations scheduled to be held in Vienna in January 1988 has been endorsed by Austrian Foreign Minister Alois Mock — who said he would participate personally — in a message to the American Jewish Committee.
The conference on “Austrian-Jewish Relations — Past, Present and Future” is co-sponsored by the AJCommittee and the Austrian Society for Foreign Policy and International Relations. Dr. Karl Vak, president of the Society, will be cochairman.
Mock’s message was sent to Rabbi Mare Tanenbaum, director of international relations of the AJCommittee. It expressed hope the conference would lead to “a further improvement of our mutual relations.”
World Jewish relations with Austria were severely strained by the election of Kurt Waldheim to the Presidency of Austria last year despite exposure of his complicity in Nazi atrocities when he served as an officer in the German army in the Balkans during World War II. Mock is leader of the conservative People’s Party that sponsored Waldheim’s candidacy.
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