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1981 Feb 24 - 1984 Jan 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1271
Hungary (UK/Hungarian relations) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 221
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81 Sep 17 Thu Hungary: FCO letter to No.10 (visit of Hungarian FM to UK) [requests courtesy call on PM] [declassified 2014]
81 Sep 23 Wed Hungary: No.10 letter to FCO (visit of Hungarian FM to UK) [PM agrees courtesy call] [declassified 2014]
81 Sep 24 Thu Hungary: FCO letter to UKA Budapest (possible Prime Ministerial visit to Hungary) [Hungarian Ambassador raised it with PM on 29 July] [declassified 2014]
81 Dec 14 Mon Hungary: FCO letter to No.10 (“Visit of the Hungarian Foreign Minister: Interpretation”) [MT agrees Hungarians supply interpreter] [declassified 2014]
82 Jan 12 Tue Hungary: FCO briefing for No.10 (Hungarian FM to call on PM) [briefing on Poland; bilateral questions; personality] [declassified 2014]
82 Jan 13 Wed Hungary: No.10 Duty Clerk note (Hungarian FM’s call on PM) [meeting cancelled] [declassified 2014]
82 Jan 13 Wed Hungary: Home Office record of conversation (Hungarian FM’s call on Home Secretary) [importance of political dialogue with Hungary] [declassified 2014]
82 Mar 16 Tue Hungary: Governor of the Bank of England letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (‘Hungary’) [Hungarian financial crisis; seeks HMG guarantee for further central bank support] [declassified 2014]
82 Mar 19 Fri Hungary: FCO note for Julian Bullard (“Hungarian Debt”) [update & possible action] [declassified 2014]
82 Mar 24 Wed Hungary: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Governor of the Bank of England (‘Hungary’) [in principle accepts HMG guarantee, but MT sees no need] [declassified 2014]
82 Mar 31 Wed Hungary: Treasury letter to Bank of England (‘Hungary’) [records BOE decision to participate in BIS rescue without HMG guarantee] [declassified 2014]
82 Sep 22 Wed Hungary: Foreign Secretary minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Possible BIS Loan to Hungary”) [Pym strongly supports further help] [declassified 2014]
82 Dec 1 Wed Hungary: FCO letter to No.10 (“Visit by Mr Jozsef Marjai, Hungarian Deputy PM”) [MT agrees 45 minute meeting] [declassified 2014]
83 Mar 7 Mon Hungary: FCO briefing for No.10 (Hungarian Deputy PM to call on PM) [“would really like a good discussion about the role of the State in the economy”] [declassified 2014]
83 Mar 8 Tue Hungary: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Hungarian Deputy PM Marjai) [“Profit must be the incentive. It was not for the Government to hand out money. The Government did not have money” (Marjai)] [declassified 2014]
83 Mar 11 Fri Hungary: FCO letter to No.10 (“Visit of the Hungarian Deputy PM, Mr Marjai”) [encloses Marjai speech extract] [declassified 2014]
83 Apr 5 Tue Hungary: UK Ambassador Budapest letter to No.10 (visiting London) [MT agrees to see him] [declassified 2014]
83 Sep 19 Mon Hungary: Prime Minister Lázár speech (toast to Vice President George Bush) [‘normalized’ relations with US; different social systems, common need for peace] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 22 Thu Hungary: UKE Bonn to FCO (Hungarian FM visits West Germany) [requests postponement of Kohl visit to Hungary in view of MT’s] [declassified 2014]
84 Jan 23 Mon Hungary: FCO letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s Visit to Hungary“) [press briefing - MT insists on not minimising 1956] [declassified 2014]