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JANKOWITSCH, Peter was born on July 10, 1933 in Vienna. Son of Karl and Gertrude (nee Ladstaetter) Jankowitsch.
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PETER JANKOWITSCH, Austrian Diplomat, Official. Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Austria, New York. Commander, Belgian Order of Leopold III; Romanian Vladirmirescu Order; Hungarian Banner Order; German Merit Order; Swedish Vasa Order; Grand-Officier de l’Ordre National du Lion, Senegal. Vienna Institute, Institution for Development; Austrian-African Society; Austrian Foreign Policy Society; Austrian United Nations League; Austrian Society for Political Sei.
Education
Grammar school (science orientated), matriculation, 1951. University of Vienna, Doctor of Law and Modern Languages. 1956; qualified as translator.
Diploma of Academy of International Law, 1959 Den Haag.
Career
Joined foreign service 1957, worked in Institute Law Department. Private Secretary, Cabinet of Minister of Foreign Affairs 1959-1962. Posted to London 64; Charge d’affaires, Dakar, Senegal 1964-1966.
Head of Office of Bruno Kreisky, Chairman Austrian Socialist Party 1967.
Chief of Cabinet of Federation Chancellor (Kreisky) 1970-1972. Permanent Representative 1972-1978.
Permanent Representative to Organisation for Economic Company-operation and Development 1978-1982.
Deputy Permanent Under-Secretary, Chief of Cabinet, Federation Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1982-1983. Federation Minister for Foreign Affairs 87.
Secretary of State for Integration and Development Company-operation 1990. Chairman United Nations Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space since 1972.
Vice-Chair, of Board.
Institute Energy Agency 83. Representative for Austria to United Nations Security Council 1973-1975, President Security Council November 1973, Vice-President 29th General Assembly. Vice-President 7th Special Session of General Assembly September 1975.
President 1984.
Secretary-General Franco-Austrian Institute of East-West Encounters. Institute Secretary Socialist Party of Austria 1983. Chairman Foreign Relations Committee Austrian National Assembly 1987, Human Rights Committee Socialist Institute 1987.
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Membership
A law graduate, he is a member of the Austrian Social Democratic Party (Sozialistische Partei Österreichs (Socialist Party of Austria)). From 1983 to 1986, 1987 to 1990 and 1992 to 1993 he was a member of the Nationalrat, from 1986 to 1987 Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs. He is a former member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group.
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Married Odette Prevor in 1962.
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Social Democratic Party of Austria
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Commander, Belgian Order of Leopold III. Romanian Vladirmirescu Order. Hungarian Banner Order. German Merit Order; Swedish Vasa Order. Grand-Officier de l’Ordre National du Lion, Senegal.Commander, Belgian Order of Leopold III. Romanian Vladirmirescu Order. Hungarian Banner Order.
German Merit Order; Swedish Vasa Order. Grand-Officier de l’Ordre National du Lion, Senegal.