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CERCLE DIPLOMATIQUE - issue 4/2017

CD is an independent and impartial magazine and is the medium of communication between foreign representatives of international and UN-organisations based in Vienna and the Austrian political classes, business, culture and tourism. CD features up-to-date information about and for the diplomatic corps, international organisations, society, politics, business, tourism, fashion and culture. Furthermore CD introduces the new ambassadors in Austria and informs about designations, awards and top-events. Interviews with leading personalities, country reports from all over the world and the presentation of Austria as a host country complement the wide range oft he magazine.

CD is an independent and impartial magazine and is the medium of communication between foreign representatives of international and UN-organisations based in Vienna and the Austrian political classes, business, culture and tourism. CD features up-to-date information about and for the diplomatic corps, international organisations, society, politics, business, tourism, fashion and culture. Furthermore CD introduces the new ambassadors in Austria and informs about designations, awards and top-events. Interviews with leading personalities, country reports from all over the world and the presentation of Austria as a host country complement the wide range oft he magazine.

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SAVOIR VIVRE AMBASSADOR´S DRIVE<br />

dieser schwarzen Periode mehrheitlich geheilt“, sagt<br />

er. „Aber manchmal, etwa wenn ein Kriegsverbrecherprozess<br />

tagt, brechen sie wieder auf.“<br />

Plötzlich piepst es im Mercedes – eine Warnung<br />

des Hightech-Mercedes vor einem Drängler, der aus<br />

dem toten Winkel überholen will. „Ah, gut, gut“, bedankt<br />

sich Leko, und wechselt abrupt das Thema hin<br />

zur politischen Causa prima, die momentan sein<br />

Land beherrscht – der im Februar 2016 gestellte Beitrittsantrag<br />

zur EU. Brüssel verlangt natürlich jede<br />

Menge Reformen, insbesondere im Hinblick auf<br />

Minderheitenrechte für Roma und Juden, und hat<br />

der Regierung in Sarajevo einen Katalog von rund<br />

3.400 Fragen geschickt, deren Beantwortung als<br />

Grundlage für den EU-Beitrittsprozess gilt. „Bis auf<br />

eine paar statistische Punkte haben wir 95 Prozent<br />

erledigt“, meint Leko stolz. „Ich hoffe, dass wir 2018<br />

wie die anderen Länder am West-Balkan EU-Beitrittskandidat<br />

werden.“ Dann bremst er sich ein und<br />

sagt noch: „Österreich hat ja bald den EU-Ratsvorsitz.<br />

Darauf hoffen wir natürlich auch.“<br />

Botschafter Leko während eines kurzen Zwischenstopps beim Lainzer Tiergarten (oben) und im Gespräch mit<br />

CD-Herausgeber Alexander Bursky (links), Clemens Neukomm von Mercedes-Wiesenthal (2. von links) und<br />

CD-Autor Rainer Himmelfreundpointner (rechts).<br />

Ambassador Leko during a short stop at the Tiergarten Lainz (top) and with CD's publisher Alexander Bursky (far<br />

left), Clemens Neukomm of Mercedes Wiesenthal (2nd left) and CD's author Rainer Himmelfreundpointner.<br />

Mercedes S 350 d 4Matic<br />

S wie „Superior“ – bei Mercedes steht dieser Buchstabe schlicht und einfach für die Spitzenklasse seiner<br />

Modell-Baureihen, also für luxuriöse Limousinen und Coupés. Offizieller Start der S-Baureihe war im Jahr<br />

1972, inwzischen ist bereits die zehnte S-Generation auf dem Markt. „Prinzipiell geht es – und ging es – bei<br />

der S-Klasse immer um technische Innovationen, die anfangs nur in diesen Modellen präsentiert wurden“,<br />

erklärt Clemens Neukomm, zuständig für Diplomatic Sales bei Wiesenthal. So feierte etwa das ABS-Antiblockiersystem<br />

bereits 1978 in einem S-Klasse-Mercedes seine Permiere, ebenso wie das elektronische Stabilisierungsprogramm<br />

ESP (1991) oder das vorausschauende, aktive Fahrwerk Magic Body Control (seit 2013).<br />

Since the German luxury carmaker Mercedes started its S-series, today in its 10th generation, in 1972 the<br />

letter S is equivalent for „superior“. ”The Mercedes S class is all about technical innovation which at its start<br />

had been launched in these models exclusively“, Clemens Neukomm, in charge of Diplomatic sales at<br />

Wiesenthal, explains. Examples are the ABS, the EPS and the Magic Body Control with Road Surface Scan.<br />

Technische Daten Technical data<br />

Motor Engine<br />

R/6-Zylinder<br />

Antrieb Drive<br />

Allrad 9G-Tronic / four-wheel drive 9G Tronic<br />

kW (PS) kw (HP) 210 (285)<br />

Hubraum Capacity 2.925 ccm<br />

Kraftstoffverbrauch/<br />

Fuel consumption<br />

5,7-5,5 l kombiniert/ combined<br />

Preis Price<br />

ab | from € 103.040,– (inkl./ incl. NoVA & 20% Mwst./ VAT)<br />

des S 350d 4Matic. Setting out to the Tiergarten<br />

Lainz, he dives into the many ties between his country<br />

and Austria in similar respectful words, pointing<br />

to its number one position as a foreign direct investor<br />

(some 1.7 billion Euro) or a trade volume of nearly<br />

one billion Euro. Also, there are some 200,000 of<br />

his countrymen living here in Austria, many of them<br />

refugees during the war of 1992-95 and half of them<br />

Austrian citizens by now.<br />

”Most of the wounds from this black period of my<br />

country have healed“, Leko says and quickly changes<br />

to a topic which in political cercles back home is causa<br />

prima of all the country's efforts for development<br />

– the application for EU-membership, sent to Brussels<br />

in February 2016. Since then, Bosnia and Herzegovina<br />

is confrontated with a challenging reform<br />

agenda – mainly in regard to rights for minorities<br />

like Roma or Jews – proposed by the EU commission<br />

which has compiled some 3,400 questions that shall<br />

serve as a basis for negotiations. ”95 percent are completed“,<br />

Leko proudly reports. ”We hope, with the<br />

help of Austria's EU-Presidency, to become a candidate<br />

for EU-membership in 2018.“<br />

Walfischgasse 8, 1010 Wien<br />

01/512 00 46<br />

office@linnerth.com<br />

He not only looks like a rugby player, he actually<br />

is one. In his younger years, the former<br />

rugby club of Tomislav Leko, 1.94 meters<br />

tall, has won many championships in Ex-Yugoslavia.<br />

Today, he even lacks a couple of hours for veteran<br />

matches, the Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina<br />

to Austria (since 2015) regrets. But he did take<br />

time for Cercle Diplomatique's invitation to the 7th<br />

Ambassador's Drive in a vehicle that after the test<br />

drive, Leko simply calls „The Car“ – the new Merce-<br />

PHOTOS: RALPH MANFREDA<br />

INFO:<br />

wiesenthal.at<br />

Kaum zu übersehen: Tomislav Leko<br />

hat seine Testfahrt im Mercedes<br />

S 350d sichtlich genossen.<br />

Hardly to be missed, how Tomislav<br />

Leko enjoyed his Mercedes S 350d<br />

test drive.<br />

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