SPME-Austria is expressing concerns over a speaker at the the Austrian Institute for International Affairs (OIIP) on April 18th. The conference was organized in co-operation with the United Nations Youth and Student Association of Austria in the frame of its event series ”Nuclear Non Proliferation”: a lecture on ”The Impact of UN Security Council Resolutions on the IAEA“.

A note of protest by SPME Austria’s Vice-President Univ. Doz. Dr. Brigitte Bailer. Also, Cafe Critique, a group of Austrian Political Scientists circulated a call for protest that can be read here in German.

The lecturer at this event that was held at the Small Hall at the University of Vienna was Ambassador Dr. Ali Asghar SOLTANIEH, Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to United Nations (Vienna), IAEA and otherInternational Organizations.

It is not the first time that lectures organized by OIIP have caused concern. in It was the same date of the Holocaust-deniers Conference in Teheran, when on December 15, 2006 OIIP invited to a discussion on “Facts and Figures about Peaceful Nuclear Policy and Activities of the Islamic Republic of Iran ” – also with Dr. Ali Asghar Soltanieh as speaker.