Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) sets off on a four-day trip to Africa on Monday. Nehammer will take part in an Austrian-Angolan economic forum on Tuesday, after which the Chancellor will meet Angolan President Joao Lourenco.
Nehammer will be accompanied by Minister of Agriculture Norbert Totschnig (ÖVP) and a business delegation. Further stations of the journey are Ghana and Egypt.
According to the Federal Chancellery, the focus of the trip is on strengthening bilateral relations in the areas of migration and security as well as on-the-spot assistance. Nehammer is accompanied by Federal Police Director Michael Takacs and Major General Friedrich Schrötter, Defense Minister Klaudia Tanner’s chief of staff (ÖVP) and the rector of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Eva Schulev-Steindl.
Another focus of the trip are economic, energy and raw material issues, the Chancellery continued. In addition to the Chamber of Commerce and the Austrian Development Bank, the Chancellor is also accompanied by high-ranking representatives of several Austrian companies.
