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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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83 May 16 Mo Major Cold War: Pym PS minute to John Coles ("CSCE Madrid Meeting: Appeal by Certain Neutral and Non-Aligned (NNA) Heads of Government") [continuation of CSCE process, improvements to draft text] [declassified Feb 2016]
83 May 6 Fr Major Cold War: Pym PS minute to John Coles ("CSCE Conference/Conference on Disarmament in Europe") [provisional mandate for a conference, could bring pressure to bear on the east] [declassified Feb 2016]
83 Apr 20 We Major Cold War: Pym PS minute to John Coles ("CSCE Madrid Meeting: Appeal by Certain Neutral and Non-Aligned Heads of State/Government") [majority think draft should be used as basis for an intensive end-game] [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]
83 Apr 18 Mo Major Cold War: MT message to Heads of Government of non-aligned and neutral states (Madrid CSCE review meeting) [proposed concluding document requires improvements as put forward by western governments] [declassified Feb 2016]
83 Jan 16 Su Major Cold War: UK Delegation Madrid telegram 184 to FCO (1030Z) ("CSCE End Game") ["the East-West part is over and the 'political handshake' has taken place"] [declassified Feb 2016]
82 Oct 6 We Minor Cold War: Pym PS minute to John Coles ("Professor Yuri Orlov") [insufficient support for British draft resolution at CERN meeting] [declassified Feb 2016]
82 Oct 6 We Minor Cold War: John Coles letter to John Eades (Yuri Orlov) [will keep up pressure on Soviet government over human rights record] [declassified Feb 2016]
82 Aug 30 Mo Minor Cold War: John Eades letter to MT (Yuri Orlov) [deterioration of Orlov's health, agreement on CERN-Soviet collaboration] [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]
81 Oct 26 Mo Minor Cold War: Michael Alexander minute to Carrington PS (repression in the Soviet Union) [will keep up pressure when CSCE meeting reconvenes] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Oct 19 Mo Minor Cold War: Michael Alexander letter to Arthur Goldberg (Madrid CSCE review meeting) [implementation of Helsinki Final Act] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Oct 3 Sa Minor Cold War: Arthur Goldberg letter to MT (Madrid CSCE review meeting) [implementation of Helsinki Final Act] [declassified Feb 2016]
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]
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 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 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]
81 May 29 Fr Major Cold War: MT letter to Lord Flowers (Anatoly Shcharansky) [CSCE process forces Soviet authorities to defend policies before a critical audience] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 May 25 Mo Minor Cold War: John Eades letter to MT (Yuri Orlov) [health of dissident mathematician Shcharansky, request to intervene] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 May 19 Tu Major Cold War: Lord Flowers letter to MT (Anatoly Shcharansky) [concern at persecution of Jewish scientists in Soviet Union] [declassified Feb 2016]