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Austria President Thomas Klestil died
Updated: 2004-07-07 09:27
Austria President Thomas Klestil died July 6,
2004 at the age of 71 following heart failure, Austrian state television
and the national news agency said. Doctors had said earlier on Tuesday
they could do nothing but hope and pray for Klestil's survival after his
heart twice stopped beating, triggering multiple organ failure. Klestil
was due to step down on Thursday after two six-year terms and hand over
the largely ceremonial presidency to Social Democrat Heinz Fischer.
Austrian President Thomas Klestil sits on his desk in the imperial Hofburg
palace in this file photo April 9, 2003. [Reuters]
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder
welcomes Austrian President Thomas Klestil (L) to Berlin in this March 9,
2004 file photo. [Reuters]
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Austria's President Thomas Klestil listens to
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan (L) in front of a painting of
former Austrian Empress Maria Theresia in Vienna's Imperial Hofburg Palace
in this January 29, 2002 file photo. [Reuters]
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Austrian President Thomas Klestil waves as he
stands next to his wife Margot at the opening of the Salzburg festival in
this July 22, 2001 file photo. [Reuters]
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Former Czech President Vaclav Havel (L) and
Klestil review a guard of honour at Vienna's Hofburg palace in this
September 6, 2001 file photo.
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