Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel appointed the country’s former ambassador to the United Nations to oversee negotiations regarding Holocaust- era restitution claims. Schuessel appointed Ernst Sucharipa after the United States called on Austria earlier in the week to settle a broad range of restitution issues.
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