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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 9 We Major Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland: message to the Pope”) [FCO draft] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 7 Mo Major Poland: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister’s visit: general impressions”) [asssessment] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 7 Mo Major Poland: No.10 minute to Howe PS (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland”) [encloses document explaining Solidarity’s aims from Janush Onyskiewicz] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 3 Th Major Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, The Consultative Council) [nature and function of the Council explained to MT] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 3 Th Major Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Prime Minister Rakowski) [Polish agriculture & trade, economy, foreign debt, management training, agreement with the IMF] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 3 Th Major Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, members of Walesa’s Brains Trust) [political situation in Poland & economic reform, East-West relations] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 3 Th Major Poland: UKE Washington telegram 2653 to FCO (1445Z) (“US/Poland”) [Shultz message to Polish FM] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 2 We Major Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, PM Rakowski) [political developments in Poland, economic reform] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 2 We Major Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Cardinal Józef Glemp) [political developments in Poland & the role of Polish Church] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 2 We Major 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 We Major Poland: Thorpe minute to Ambassador (“Lenin Shipyard: no strike situation”) [workforce returned to work after rally addressed by Walesa] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 2 We Major 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 1 Tu Major 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 Tu Major Poland: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO (“Lenin Shipyard, Gdansk”) [not the weakest yard economically, implying closure decision was political] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 1 Tu Major Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland: possible trouble in Gdansk”) [contingency thinking] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 1 Tu Major 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 We Major Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Polish Independents) [economic reform in Poland, anti-communism, political situation] [declassified 2016]
88 Dec 16 Fr Major Poland: General Jaruzelski letter to MT (Prime Minister's visit to Poland) ["I highly value your invitation to continue the talks which we so promisingly opened in Warsaw"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Dec 16 Fr Major Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland: commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War") [proposals] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Dec 6 Tu Major Poland: Younger PS letter to No.10 ("Poland") ["figures for total British killed in World War II": inaccurate statistics cited by MT during dinner speech in Warsaw] [declassified Jul 2016]