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Soviet Union: MT meeting with Soviet PM Kosygin (record of conversation) [stop-over in Moscow en route to Tokyo] [declassified 2009]

Document type: Declassified documents
Venue: No.10 Downing Street
Source: PREM19/124
Editorial comments: Evening. Interviewed on BBC Radio 4 Today , 30 December 2009, Sir Brian Cartledge (present at the meeting and author of the minute) recalled MT as smiling when she told Kosygin not to be so modest about Soviet military capacity.
Importance ranking: Key
Word count: 3pp
Themes: Defence (arms control), Energy, Foreign policy (Asia), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Northern Ireland, MT's meetings as PM