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Bronfman and the WJC also helped in the campaign to identify Kurt Waldheim, the former United Nations secretary general and president of Austria, as a Nazi war criminal.
FORBES: The confrontationist
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The Forum saw the participation also of the Qatari Deputy Prime Minister, Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Atiya, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the Spanish Deputy Prime Minister, Manuel Chavez, President of Austria, Heinz Fischer, President of Germany, Christian Wulff and a representative of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
UNESCO: Communication and Information
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President Thomas Klestil of Austria, where the king kept a winter residence and was close to the leadership, said his country had lost "a great friend".
BBC: News | Middle East | The world pays tribute
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Onetime deputy assistant secretary of defense under President Reagan, later appointed ambassador to Austria.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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The authorities in Kazakhstan issued an international warrant for the arrest of Rakhat Aliyev, the son-in-law of President Nursultan Nazarbayev who was until last month the country's ambassador to Austria.
ECONOMIST: Politics this week