This Austrian diplomat of Slovenian origin will chair the Carinthian Slovenian Council (RKS).
Upon his election, Inzko called for removal of frictions among several political organisations representing this minority in Austria. There are some 15,000 ethnic Slovenians making up three percent of the population in Carinthia.
One of issues Inzko is expected to solve is posting bilingual signs at entrances to some of towns and settlements in the south of Carinthia with considerably large Slovenian communities.
A state agreement to this effect was reached in 1955, but the radical right-wing party led by Joerg Haider, who died in a car accident in 2008, had fiercely opposed such bilingual town signs.