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World Media Forum, Zurich: Text of speech of Swiss ambassador


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1501

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: World Media Forum, Zurich: Text of speech of Swiss ambassador

Date(s): 1999

Level of description: Collection level

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): World Media Forum

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

World Media Forum is a platform for the discussion of a variety of international news topics attended by members of the world's media and held (annually ?) in different parts of the world. This particular event was held in Zurich in 1999.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Text of a speech of Thomas Borer-Fielding, head of a special task force established to investigate Switzerland's role in World War Two, in which he criticises the negative portrayal of Switzerland in the US and UK media, 1999.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

N/A

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Steve Onam

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: March 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Diplomacy | Foreign relations | International relations
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names
Borer-Fielding | Thomas | b 1957 | diplomat

Corporate names
World Media Forum

Places
Switzerland | Western Europe | Europe