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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 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 Sep 16 Fr Major Poland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland") [programme] [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 Sep 29 Th Major Poland: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Poland") [uncertainty over dates for MT visit] [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 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 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 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 Oct 13 Th Major Poland: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland: 2-4 November 1988") [communications security arrangements] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Oct 13 Th Minor Poland: Buckingham Palace letter to No.10 (Prime Minister's visit to Poland: 2-4 November 1988) [Royal consent] [declassified Jul 2016]