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1988 Nov 1 - 1988 Dec 17
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2386
Poland (Prime Minister's visit to Poland, November 1988) (Part 2)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 163
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88 Nov 1 Tue Poland: No.10 minute to MT (Prime Minister’s visit to Poland) [assistance given to redundant mineworkers, steelworkers and shipbuilders in UK - bull points & detail] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 1 Tue Poland: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO (“Lenin Shipyard, Gdansk”) [not the weakest yard economically, implying closure decision was political] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 1 Tue Poland: Home Office briefing for MT (“Prime Minister’s Visit to Poland: Visas”) [delays] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 1 Tue Poland: Department for Education & Science briefing for MT (“Exchange Arrangements with Poland”) [teacher & pupil exchanges, ministerial meeting record] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 1 Tue Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 (proposal for a British-Polish seminar on human rights) [Bernard Braine proposal, possibly worthy of support] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 1 Tue Poland: Leaders of democratic opposition in Poland letter to MT (Prime Minister’s visit to Poland) [Conference of Independence-Seeking Parties and Organisations] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 1 Tue Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland: possible trouble in Gdansk”) [contingency thinking] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 1 Tue Poland: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister’s visit: closure of Lenin Shipyard”) [announcement timed to put PM on the spot; MT drafts response] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 2 Wed Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, PM Rakowski) [political developments in Poland, economic reform] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 2 Wed Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Cardinal Józef Glemp) [political developments in Poland & the role of Polish Church] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 2 Wed Poland: MT letter to Julian Amery MP (Prime Minister’s visit to Poland) ["looks likely to be an exciting visit"] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 2 Wed Poland: FCO briefing for MT (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland: Musicians and Writers”) [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 2 Wed Poland: Cabinet Office telegram to Charles Powell (Polish air crash) [MT en route to Poland] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 2 Wed Poland: Thorpe minute to Ambassador (“Prime Minister’s visit: meeting with Walesa”) [contigency plans for meeting in the event of shipyard strike] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 2 Wed Poland: Thorpe minute to Ambassador (“Lenin Shipyard: no strike situation”) [workforce returned to work after rally addressed by Walesa] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 2 Wed Poland: Polish Conservatives & National Liberals letter to MT (Prime Minister’s visit to Poland) [claims support of Silent Majority] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 2 Wed Poland: Solidarity Gdansk shipyard workers letter to MT (visit to the Lenin Yard) [welcome; "We require cancellation of the Yalta Agreement"] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 2 Wed Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Polish Independents) [economic reform in Poland, anti-communism, political situation] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 3 Thu Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, General Jaruzelski) [MT visit to Gdansk, Polish internal situation, Solidarity] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 3 Thu Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, The Consultative Council) [nature and function of the Council explained to MT] [declassified 2016]