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Picture Gallery

The "4-Power Command Building"

The conference was held here. It is on Schwarzenbergplatz.

The building exists today (June 2000) as No.4 Schwarzenbergplatz. The inscription on the pediment is "Österreich Industrie Gewidmet" while the nameplate on the door says "Haus der Industrie".

View from the right...

and from the front.

The 4 Ambassadors

From left to right Soviet Emissary Ivan I Illychiev; Austrian Foreign Minister Leopold Figl; U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn E Thompson Jr.; British Ambassador Sir Geoffrey Wallinger; French Charge d'Affaires Roger LaLouette

The conference room.

A guard at the 4-Power Command Building.

The opening session of the conference.

The Treaty was formally signed at the Upper Belvedere Palace

These are the entrance gates (in June 2000).

This is the front facade.

And this the rear facade with the gardens.

Here is the balcony from which the Treaty was displayed.

And this is a contemporary newspaper photograph of the Ambassadors and the signed and sealed Treaty.