Turkey's president due to Austria

ANKARA (A.A) - December 7, 2011 - Turkey's president will travel to Austria on Thursday to attend a conference, his office said on Wednesday. President Abdullah Gul will visit Vienna on December 8-9 upon an invitation from his Austrian counterpart Heinz Fischer. Gul will participate in the Fourth Edition of the World Policy Conference (WPC). President Gul will attend a luncheon Fischer will host in honor of participating heads of state and government, and deliver a speech at the conference on December 9. The conference will be welcoming more than 150 participants and 300 guests of the highest level to address both fundamental and topical governance-related subjects, among which are the governance challenges relating to the Arab Spring, the governance of major catastrophes, the role of Europe as a laboratory of global governance, the future of the G8 and G20 as governance institutions and the governance of African transitions. The WPC was launched in 2008 by Thierry de Montbrial, President of the Ifri (French Institute of International Relations), and it is the only international conference entirely dedicated to fostering global governance at all levels.