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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 Oct 13 Thu 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 Thu Poland: Buckingham Palace letter to No.10 (Prime Minister's visit to Poland: 2-4 November 1988) [Royal consent] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Oct 14 Fri Poland: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit") ["Poles accept all our revisions of programme"; telegram followed by various items relating to tour schedule & protocol] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Nov 4 Fri Poland: MT letter to Walesa Brains Trust members (visit to Poland) ["I was so sorry that we had to break off our discussion yesterday because of lack of time"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Nov 6 Sun Poland: MT letter to General Jaruzelski (visit to Poland) ["wish you well in your goals of reforming the economy and of national reconciliation... [and] bridging the division of Europe. I hope that you will one day visit Britain"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Nov 6 Sun Poland: MT letter to Cardinal Glemp (visit to Poland) ["You have done such remarkable work not just for the Church but for Poland. I hope that my own visit will have helped in a small way to lessen divisions and advance reconciliation"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Nov 6 Sun Poland: MT letter to Lech Walesa (visit to Poland) ["I spoke later to General Jaruzelski in the terms which we agreed. He repeated to me his personal commitment to round table discussions"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Nov 6 Sun Poland: MT letter to UK Ambassador to Poland (visit) ["We packed a great deal into a short time... But the problems and difficulties which lie ahead are all too clear and I am not sure how they can be surmounted"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Nov 6 Sun Poland: MT letter to Prime Minister Rakowski (visit to Poland) ["I now have a much better understanding of... the scale and nature of the problems... I hope that the round table discussions will take place on a basis which all parties can accept"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Nov 6 Sun Poland: MT letter to Rynkowski (visit to Poland) [thank you letters to various who escorted her on the tour] [declassified Jul 2016]