[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 40, Number 28 (Monday, July 12, 2004)]
[Page 1216]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Statement on the Death of Austrian President Thomas Klestil

July 8, 2004

    Laura and I offer our deepest condolences to the people of Austria 
and to the Klestil family on the death of President Thomas Klestil.
    President Klestil was a distinguished statesman who had previously 
served as Austria's Ambassador to the United States and as Austria's 
Permanent Representative to the United Nations. President Klestil was 
well known in the United States as a man dedicated to freedom and human 
dignity, and as President he was a committed and eloquent advocate of 
these values. We join all the people of Austria in mourning his passing.