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Defence: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("Netherlands/INF") [deployment of cruise missiles: "Lubbers has always been opposed to an unconditional yes. The next stage is for him to become convinced that the kind of conditional no which he has been contemplating will not secure the survival of his government"] [declassified Jan 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1182 f63
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 2pp
Themes: Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), European Union (general), Defence (general), Defence (arms control), British relations with Netherlands, British relations with the Soviet Union, British relations with the US