The governor of the Austrian federal state Upper Austria, Dr. Josef Pühringer, participated in the Seventh Regional Leaders Summit in Atlanta, GA, June 2-3, 2014.

The Regional Leaders' Summit is a forum of seven regions (states, federal states and provinces) from four continents in which perspectives and strategies for a sustainable world are discussed under the main topic "Policy For Generations".

The regions are home for 177 million people and represent a Gross Domestic Product of more than USD 3,000 Billion.

Member regions include Bavaria, Georgia, Upper Austria, Quebec, Sao Paulo, Shandong and Western Cape. The Austrian Ambassador to the U.S. Hans Peter Manz was also present at the summit. 

For more information, please visit:

http://www.georgia.org/2014/06/20/georgia-hosts-seventh-regional-leaders-summit/

http://www.land-oberoesterreich.gv.at/cps/rde/xchg/ooe/hs.xsl/54153_DEU_HTML.htm