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Personal connection
Traina likes Austria, it shows. The Californian, who is actually an entrepreneur, likes to mention that his grandfather was already an ambassador in Vienna when Bruno Kreisky ruled here. One of his permanent judgments is that the country is chronically under-sold: “I have two jobs here. One is to remind Washington why Austria is strategic and important. And the other is to remind Austria why it is important. “
He is proud that relationships during his tenure have never been better. Only Covid-19 had prevented a second meeting of heads of government, the US Secretary of State was visiting Vienna, and there were high-level meetings under the media radar. The views of Vienna and Washington on many foreign policy issues are very similar, such as the position on Serbia-Kosovo, the question of Israel or Venezuela.
