- Title: 433 AT Pompeo visit
- Date: 13th August 2020
- Description:US Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo meets with Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen Yesterday evening, US President Donald Trump's chief diplomat from Slovenia landed at Vienna Airport. Austria is the third stage of Pompeo's Central Europe Tour. Pompeo had a dinner with Ambassador Trevor Traina at his residence. The busy talks began this morning, Pompeo met with AT FinMin Gernot Blümel and representatives of Austrian companies, then he was received by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen in the Vienna Hofburg. Before the working lunch with FM Alexander Schallenberg in the Belvedere Palace, Pompeo also takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Holocaust memorial . Schallenberg receives his counterpart in the baroque Belvedere Palace for the press conference. Strategic partnerships, current geopolitical trouble spots, the Western Balkans and effective multilateralism will be topics. In the afternoon, Pompeo will meet Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and then the Greek FM Nikos Dendias. The reason is the current dispute between Greece and Turkey over gas and oil drilling in the Mediterranean. Finally, he is invited to a dinner with Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz at Ballhausplatz place at the chancellery - on Saturday morning Pompeo will travel to Warsaw, where he will end his trip to Europe. While the relationship between the USA and its historically closely allied large neighbor Germany has deteriorated significantly under President Trump, Trump has been forging alliances with smaller Central European states - including Austria - since taking office in 2017. It was "great to visit Vienna to reaffirm the strong and growing trade and investment ties as well as regional security issues," said Pompeo. According to the US Embassy, the USA and Austria “share common democratic values and perspectives on issues of human rights, the rule of law and the common vision of peace and freedom for all. In fact, there are a few issues where there is disagreement. For example, Pompeo is intensively promoting the exclusion of Chinese telecommunications companies such as Huawei from the 5G expansion on its Central Europe tour. So far, he has only met open ears in Slovenia, where a joint declaration on the subject of "5G security" was signed on Thursday. Austria has so far refused to exclude Huawei. There are also different interests with regard to “Nord Stream 2”, in which the Austrian OMV is also involved. Washington wants to force the pipeline project to stop because it believes the pipeline gives Russia too much leverage over security and economic issues in Western Europe. Shotlist location: Vienna Airport, Schwechat, province of Lower Austria, WS plane landing MS plane , black cars CU plane detail US flag TILT DOWN plane , black cars CU Susan Pompeo (wife), US FM Mike Pompeo and two further officials getting off plane location: Vienna Hofburg, inside PAN RIGHT AT President Alexander van der Bellen and US FM Mike Pompeo stepping out white door , towards US and AT flags position ZOOM IN Pompeo and van der Bellen, friendly PAN RIGHT Pompeo walking off
- Collection: ORF
- Genre:News
- Producer:ORF
- Transmission Date:14/08/2020
- Decade: 2020s