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Abstract We, members of the legal service of the Austrian Foreign Ministry (“Office of the Legal Adviser", “Völkerrechtsbüro"), have been invited by the editors of this distinguished journal to submit a report on Austria’s recent practice in the field of international law. For various reasons, this is a very challenging task. There is, in particular, the wealth of material from which it is necessary to make only a small selection, and the fact that certain interesting legal issues may not or may not yet lend themselves to publication. However, the attempt to write such a report was made, in the hope that it would, in addition to the annual meetings of
