Austria's Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel (L) receives the letter of appointment after being sworn in as Interior Minister by President Heinz Fischer in Vienna's imperial Hofburg palace January 2, 2007. Austrian Interior Minister Liese Prokop, a former Olympic pentathlon silver medallist, died on New Year's eve on her way to hospital after suffering a ruptured blood vessel, the ministry said on Monday. REUTERS/Herwig Prammer (AUSTRIA)