IVANOV IN VIENNA

Igor Ivanov arrived yesterday in Austria’s capital city to take part in a meeting of OSCE prime ministers due to be held there on November 27-28. Late in the evening, he talked to US Secretary of State Madleine Albright. Today, the Russian foreign minister is to address the meeting participants and also expected to meet with Yugoslav president Vojislav Kostunica, British foreign minister Robin Cook and incumbent OSCE chairman, Austrian foreign minister Benita Ferreo-Waldner. That very day, in Vienna’s Hofburg palace, a signing of an inter-government agreement is scheduled concerning Austia’s voluntary payments to former involuntary “Third Reich” workers.