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.

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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.

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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".

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