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 |
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Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
Release date: | 2016 Jul 21 |
Classification: | Confidential |
Page count: | 260 |
Any docs withheld? | 12 |
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Date | Value | Title |
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88 Feb 1 Mo | Major | 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] |
88 Mar 17 Th | Minor | Poland: No.10 letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland") [response to FCO letter listing those to accompany MT] [declassified Jul 2016] |
88 Mar 22 Tu | Major | 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 Mar 25 Fr | Major | 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 28 Mo | Major | Poland: MT letter to General Jaruzelski (visit to Poland) [postponement owing to Moscow summit and Reagan visit to London] [declassified Jul 2016] |
88 Jun 10 Fr | Major | 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 Jul 7 Th | Major | 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 Jul 14 Th | Major | 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 20 We | Major | Poland: No.10 record of conversation (Prime Minister's visit to Poland: Gdansk) [Charles Powell, Ambassador Gertych, Matuszewski] [declassified Jul 2016] |
88 Aug 24 We | Minor | Poland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland: press coverage") ['Polityka' request for interview] [declassified Jul 2016] |
88 Sep 12 Mo | Major | 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 Sep 14 We | Major | Poland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland: arrival time") [details of arrival ceremony] [declassified Jul 2016] |
88 Sep 16 Fr | Major | Poland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland") [programme] [declassified Jul 2016] |
88 Sep 29 Th | Major | Poland: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Poland") [uncertainty over dates for MT visit] [declassified Jul 2016] |
88 Oct 3 Mo | Major | Poland: UKE Warsaw record of conversation ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland") [UK Ambassador Barrett, Polish Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs] [declassified Jul 2016] |
88 Oct 3 Mo | Major | Poland: General Jaruzelski letter to MT ("Prime Minister's visit") [wishing to postpone visit due to internal unrest] [declassified Jul 2016] |
88 Oct 4 Tu | Major | Poland: FCO record of conversation ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland") [William Waldegrave, Polish ambassador] [declassified Jul 2016] |
88 Oct 6 Th | Major | Poland: MT letter to General Jareuzelski (visit to Poland) [UK concerns that Polish leadership considering cancelling visit due to internal unrest] [declassified Jul 2016] |
88 Oct 7 Fr | Major | Poland: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Poland") [priorities & sensitivities over agreement of programme, in particular the laying of flowers at Shipyard Workers' memorial] [declassified Jul 2016] |
88 Oct 11 Tu | Minor | Poland: No.10 letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland") [flight seating plan] [declassified Jul 2016] |