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1980 May 14 - 1985 May 3
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1973
Soviet Union (Human rights and the position of dissidents in the Soviet Union: policy towards the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Feb 19
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 324
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81 Aug 25 Tu Minor Cold War: International Representation for the Council of Evangelical Baptist Churches of the Soviet Union news release ("Five Years in Labor Camp for Preaching the Gospel") [trial of Minyakov] [declassified Feb 2016]
85 Mar 25 Mo Minor Cold War: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("CSCE: Budapest Cultural Forum: October/November 1985") [appointment head of UK delegation] [declassified Feb 2016]
84 Dec 28 Fr Minor Cold War: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("CSCE: Budapest Cultural Forum") [appointment head of UK delegation] [declassified Feb 2016]
84 Oct 18 Th Minor Cold War: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("CSCE: Budapest Cultural Forum") [appointment head of UK delegation] [declassified Feb 2016]
83 Apr 18 Mo Major Cold War: Heads of Government of non-aligned and neutral states message to MT (Madrid CSCE review meeting) [continued protracted negotiations will lead to erosion of aims of CSCE, proposed concluding document] [declassified Feb 2016]
80 Dec 12 Fr Minor Cold War: Georgi Vins letter to MT (CSCE Conference) [treatment of Christians in Soviet Union] [declassified Feb 2016]
83 Jun 23 Th Major Cold War: Geoffrey Howe minute to MT ("Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe") [Helsinki monitors, human rights, radio jamming, possible Russian response] [declassified Feb 2016]
83 May 17 Tu Major Cold War: Francis Pym minute to MT ("Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe") [main advances on modest commitments on human rights, conference on disarmament, American resistance to text] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Dec 4 Fr Major Cold War: FCO telegram 64 to UK Delegation Madrid (1425Z) ("CSCE: Possible Outcomes in Madrid") [likelihood of adjournment, shape of final document, Russian position] [declassified Feb 2016]
80 Jun 20 Fr Major Cold War: FCO telegram 58 to Missions (1633Z) ("Madrid CSCE Review Meeting") [meeting cannot be isolated from tension caused by Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified Feb 2016]
83 May 19 Th Minor Cold War: FCO telegram 129 to UK Delegation Madrid (1110Z) ("CSCE: Madrid Meeting") [draft concluding document prepared by neutral and non-aligned states] [declassified Feb 2016]
80 Aug 29 Fr Major Cold War: FCO statement ("Human Rights Trials in the Soviet Union") [need for a searching examination of Soviet implementation of Helsinki Final Act at CSCE Madrid meeting; MT annotates - 'Excellent'] [declassified Feb 2016]
80 Sep 19 Fr Major Cold War: FCO record of conversation (MT-Giscard) [problems at CSCE Madrid meeting, Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, attitude of German government] [declassified Feb 2016]
83 Jul 12 Tu Major Cold War: FCO record of conversation (Howe-Stoessel) [Soviet human rights record, coordination of Western efforts] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Jun 1 Mo Major Cold War: FCO notes ("CSCE Madrid Meeting") [wording of final document in areas of human rights, military security, human contacts and information] [declassified Feb 2016]
83 Oct 6 Th Minor Cold War: FCO minute to Tim Flesher ("CSCE - Madrid") [publication of non-treaty command papers] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Jun 12 Fr Minor Cold War: FCO letter to John Eades (Yuri Orlov) [British members of CERN Council will take soundings on possible resolution] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Aug 5 We Minor Cold War: FCO letter to John Eades ("Professor Yuri Orlov") [insufficient support for a CERN Council resolution] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Apr 24 Fr Major Cold War: FCO briefing ("Mr Blaker's meeting with Mrs Avital Shcharansky: Monday, 27 April 1981: 1500 hours") [Shcharansky's condition, attitude of UK and Soviet governments] [declassified Feb 2016]
84 Jul 11 We Minor Cold War: Exodus letter to MT (Soviet Union) [list of "refuseniks"] [declassified Feb 2016]