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- March 1985 - May 1988 (Creation)
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Records relating to the adminstration of IPI Executive Board General Assemblies, March 1985 - May 1988.
Includes a list of participants at the IPI 34th General Assembly, 3 - 6 March 1985, held in Cairo, Egypt; transcript of a speech on press freedom in the United Kingdom, given by Donald Trelford (Observer editor) at the 34th IPI General Assembly, February 1985; papers from the IPI Executive Board held on 10 May 1986 in Vienna, Austria; correspondence between Peter Galliner (IPI director) and Peter Preston (editor) concerning plans for a IPI assembly in the United Kingdon, 1986-1988; transcript of a speech on press freedom in Kenya at the 35th IPI General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, May 1986; a draft letter from the editor of 'El Pais', Juan Luis Cebrian, requesting an interview with Mikhail Gorbachev, December 1986; minutes of the IPI Working Committee meeting held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 9 May 1987 and the IPI Executive Board held in Buenos Aires, 10 May 1987, Montevideo, Uruguay, 13 May 1987, Turin, Italy, 18 March 1988, New York, United States, 19 March 1988 and Berlin, Germany, 7 and 10 May 1989; correspondence relating to Executive Board elections and membership changes, October 1987 - September 1989 and copies of letters from Peter Galliner to Augsusto Pinochet (president of Chile) and Abel Hamed Brahimi (Prime Minister) relating to incidents with journalists in Chile and Afghanistan, May 1988.
Also includes the minutes, with associated papers, of the IPI British Executive Core Committee meeting attended by Peter Preston on19 March 1985 and a list of IPI Executive Board members as at May 1988.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)
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Subject to access restrictions in line with the Data Protection Act and confidentiality.
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- Preston; Peter John (1938-2018); journalist and editor of the Guardian (Subject)
- International Press Institute (1950-); press organisation (Subject)
- Trelford; Donald Gilchrist (1937-2023); journalist, broadcaster, and editor of The Observer (Subject)
- Gorbachev; Mikhail Sergeyevich (1931-); President USSR (Subject)
- Pinochet Ugarte; Augusto José Ramón (1915-2006); Chilean President and soldier (Subject)