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2007-09-20 The members of the IAEA 35-nation board of governors are Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Britain, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Russian, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand and the United States.
2007-09-12 Austrian anti-terror forces in Vienna arrested three people with links to al Qaeda who posted an online video threatening attacks against Austria and Germany.

All of them are second-generation Austrian citizens with Arab origins. They include a 20-year-old man, his 21-year-old wife and another man of 26.
2007-05 / 2008-06 The Austrian government and OMV company gave Gazprom 50 percent ownership of Nabucco’s designated terminal near Vienna, suggested sharing the use of Nabucco’s throughput capacity with Gazprom, and agreed to build an extension of South Stream through Austria, potentially preempting Nabucco.
2007-01-13 In Austria, Susanne Winter, member of Austria's conservative Freedom Party, told a rally of 3,000 supporters in the city of Graz that the community was threatened by "an Islamic immigration tsunami" and that half of Austria's population would be Muslim "within 20 to 30 years".
-- The Independent newspaper
2006-06 Austria launched Nabucco as an EU project during its presidency of the EU.
2006-02 In Austria, British historian David Irving was sentenced to a three-year prison term for denying the Holocaust.

In his book, Hitler’s War, Irving argued against what most consider are facts of the Holocaust. For example, Irving has said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz and that Hitler knew very little, if anything, about the systematic extermination of Jews.
2005 In Austria, interior minister Liese Prokop proposed to ban schoolteachers from wearing hijab but backtracked.
2004-06-15 Walter Schwimmer told foreign ministers at the Islamic conference in Istanbul that the Islamic component is an integral part of Europe's diversity. He reaffirmed the commitment of the Council of Europe to work against Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance.
1999 / 2004 Walter Schwimmer was Secretary General of the Council of Europe
1995 Austria's population is 8.1 million.

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