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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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83 Jul 12 Tue Cold War: FCO record of conversation (Howe-Stoessel) [Soviet human rights record, coordination of Western efforts] [declassified Feb 2016]
83 Jun 23 Thu 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 Tue 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]
83 May 17 Tue Cold War: Pym PS minute to John Coles ("CSCE") [issues concerning proposed Madrid text on human rights, armaments] [declassified Feb 2016]
83 May 16 Mon 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 Fri 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 Wed 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]
80 May 14 Wed Cold War: Leonard Schapiro letter to MT (human rights in Soviet Union) [request that UK government "speak out strongly" and denounce Kremlin on the issue] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Jan 19 Mon Cold War: Carrington PS minute to Michael Alexander (repression in the Soviet Union) [treatment of Jews, maintenance of pressure on Moscow] [declassified Feb 2016]
80 Dec 17 Wed Cold War: Carrington PS minute to Michael Alexander ("Repression in the Soviet Union") [use of officially-controlled media, attempts to induce dissidents to plead guilty] [declassified Feb 2016]
80 Oct 30 Thu Cold War: Carrington PS minute to Michael Alexander ("Human Rights in the Soviet Union and CSCE") ["a campaign of repression worse than any since Stalin's day"] [declassified Feb 2016]
80 Jul 8 Tue Cold War: Carrington PS minute to Michael Alexander ("CSCE") [should show clearly at Madrid meeting UK's disapproval of Soviet action in Afghanistan] [declassified Feb 2016]
80 Jun 18 Wed Cold War: Carrington PS minute to Michael Alexander ("CSCE") [Madrid meeting an occasion to remind Eastern European countries of failure to fulfil Helsinki commitments] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Apr 28 Tue Cold War: Michael Alexander minute to Carrington PS (meeting with Avital Shcharansky) [expectation of campaign by Jewish pressure groups] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Jan 7 Wed Cold War: Peter Blaker letter to Robert Bradford (treatment of Moisei Tonkonogy) [Western delegations at CSCE pressing for evaluation of human rights and freedoms in Soviet Union] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 May 19 Tue Cold War: Lord Flowers letter to MT (Anatoly Shcharansky) [concern at persecution of Jewish scientists in Soviet Union] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 May 29 Fri 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 Apr 24 Fri 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]
81 Apr 29 Wed Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Avital Shcharansky) [MT doubted whether it would be helpful to pursue Shcharansky's case in public] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Feb 16 Mon Cold War: UK Delegation Madrid telegram 12 to FCO (1055Z) ("CSCE Review Meeting: State of Play") [security negotiation, human rights cases, arms control] [declassified Feb 2016]