Offtext: Austria practices dialogue combined with active membership in international organizations as one of its top foreign policy priorities.

Spindelegger: We have a lot of agencies in Austria which are very engaged to build something up and to get more ideas about the using of renewable energies and I think this is the most important question we have to answer for the future.

Offtext: The Vienna International Center now has a new conference building.

Maria-Costa: The new facility is technologically advanced, it can host meetings with more than 1600 people.

Offtext: Diplomats from all over the world meet during the conferences. Four organizations at the United Nations Family have their offices here. Also OPEC, the OSCE and some NGOs are based in Vienna.

Häupl: The United Nations and the headquarters of the United Nations are now a really part of Vienna, a part of our culture, a part of our tradition.

Offtext: On the famous "Naschmarkt" diplomats and tourists mix and mingle. In the Andromeda Tower near the VIC there is still space available.

Spindelegger: It would be a wonderful idea to get IRENA as a new agency also in Vienna.