Alpine Convention: new Secretary-General takes officeAug 23, 2013
Markus Reiterer began his new job on 1 July 2013 as Secretary-General of the Alpine Convention at the "Goldenes Dachl" in Innsbruck. The new head of the Permanent Secretariat talks about his aims. Markus Reiterer first listens. In the first weeks of his term as Secretary-General, the new man at the Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention visited various institutions, organisations and people - including CIPRA - that support sustainable development in the Alps. "I would like to have a teambuilding effect", he says. "We can best meet the challenges of the coming years and decades if all of us - the states that are parties to the convention, regions, municipalities, the Permanent Secretariat, the observer organisations and civil society - work together as a team." The Permanent Secretariat wishes in future to intervene more between various interests in Alpine policy to promote co-operation between those who in various ways support sustainable development in the Alps. |