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1988 Feb 1 - 1988 Nov 6
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2432
Prime Minister's Tours Abroad (Prime Minister's visit to Poland, November 1988: administrative arrangements)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 260
Any docs withheld? 12

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88 Sep 14 Wed Poland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland: arrival time") [details of arrival ceremony] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Sep 12 Mon Poland: No.10 letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland: arrangements for calls") ["I think we shall simply have to rely on the Polish interpreter... [MT] is averse to extra bodies in the room"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Jul 20 Wed Poland: No.10 record of conversation (Prime Minister's visit to Poland: Gdansk) [Charles Powell, Ambassador Gertych, Matuszewski] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Jul 14 Thu Poland: No.10 letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland") [draft MT letter to Jaruzelski making case for inclusion of Gdansk in itinerary] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Jul 7 Thu Poland: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Poland") ["The Foreign Office letter attached argues that perhaps Gdansk is not so well worth visiting after all, given that Solidarity's recent efforts have been redolent of the worst sort of British trade unionism. To my mind, that is close to sacrilege"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Jun 10 Fri Poland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland") ["The Foreign Secretary considers that the recent events in Poland have if anything strengthened the case... to go ahead with the planned visit"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Mar 28 Mon Poland: MT letter to General Jaruzelski (visit to Poland) [postponement owing to Moscow summit and Reagan visit to London] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Mar 25 Fri Poland: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Poland") ["The Polish regime is morally, politically and financially bankrupt. We could make a good public case for our insistence on inclusion of [visit to Gdansk shipyward workers' memorial"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Mar 22 Tue Poland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland") [use of Polish goverment's desire to drop Gdansk visit from itinerary as a negotiating point] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Feb 1 Mon Poland: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Poland") [departure date; proposed visit to Gdansk shipyard workers' memorial; possible clash with Reagan visit to Poland] [declassified Jul 2016]