Indian Ocean Interdisciplinary Management Foundation
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The Indian Ocean Interdisciplinary Management Foundation (IOIMF) was chartered in Vienna, Austria 1979, under the auspices of then Lecturer
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, Guru, Professor, Dr Michael Hoffman; the Head of Vienna University, (German: Universität Wien) High Management Department and Founder, Vienna Interdisciplinary Management Institute 1974. Also a Consultant
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 to a number of leading, German, Austrian, Swiss, Italy multinationals, governments and UN institutions.

On account of Austrian history, its excellent economic, political relation with the Eastern Bloc
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, then COMECON
Comecon
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 countries, the USSR, the Warsaw Pact
Warsaw Pact
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 . Its respected neutrality
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, excellent relation with the Arab world
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 and OAU, "the Cold War
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" relation between the East and West
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, the political situation in the Indian Ocean as an important contribution to Charter IOIMF - Indian Ocean Interdisciplinary Management.

In accordance with such regulation
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s in granting of such charter, duly documented and witnessed, Mr Mitchel Juan Edmond, the first Seychelles
Seychelles
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 national to be exiled in Austria, Vienna, since 1976, married to an Austrian national from Zillertal
Zillertal
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 in Tyrol, who had worked for the Von Oswald family, in Seychelles. He was made a Fellow of Vienna Interdisciplinary Management Institute and given charge of the Charter
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 for the Indian Ocean
Indian Ocean
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 region.

Note:
One of the first Research undertaken by UNIDO under the guidance of Vienna Interdisciplinary Management Institute, Professor Dr Micheal Hoffman, the newly Charted IOIMF - Indian Ocean Interdisciplinary Management Foundation - was the first Small Indian Ocean joint economic Grouping like CARICOM which existed then. The research was submitted to UNIDO in Vienna, the World Bank
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, Seychelles Government, Vienna Interdisciplinary Management Institute, the Austrian Federal Government
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, Bank Austria Creditanstalt, the South African Embassy in Vienna, the US Embassy in Vienna, Israeli Embassy in Vienna, those from the Illuminati
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 other fraternal bodies knowledge. All those who opposed this concept, they said it was too grandiose and would never work in the Indian Ocean; under the Heading Indian Ocean Industrial Investment and Promotion Centre. The concept taken and used to set in place the COI -Indian Ocean Commission http://www.coi-ioc.org/, Secretariat in Mauritius.

See also

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