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1989 Apr 2 - 1989 May 3
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2869
Soviet Union (Visit to the UK by President Gorbachev, 5-7 April 1989) (Part 4)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Dec 29
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 404
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89 Apr 6 Th Key Soviet Union: No.10 conversation record (MT-Gorbachev) [Introduction; International Attitudes to the Soviet Union; Perestroika; Defence and Arms Control; Regional problems; Moscow Embassy, President Bush, Central America, Namibia, etc; family unification; Royal visit to the USSR] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Apr 10 Mo Major Soviet Union: Powell minute for MT ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit: Message to President Bush") [Powell redrafts suggested FCO text to give more impressions and conclusions] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Apr 2 Su Major Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Mr. Gorbachev's Visit") [MT asks if model of proposed new UK embassy can be shown to Gorbachev] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 3 Mo Major Soviet Union: FCO Protocol Department letter to No.10 ("Gorbachev Visit: Arrangements for the Press Statement at Heathrow") [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 3 Mo Major Soviet Union: FCO Protocol Department letter to No.10 ("Gorbachev Visit: Demonstrations") [details of planned demonstrations & police measures] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 3 Mo Major Soviet Union: Julian Amery MP letter to No.10 (Gorbachev Visit: briefing points) [Ethiopia; Aden; Mozambique] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 3 Mo Major Soviet Union: Lord Young PS letter to Howe PS (Gorbachev Visit: candidates for factory visit) [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 3 Mo Major Soviet Union: No.10 minute to Lord Young PS ("Mr. Gorbachev's Visit: trade matters") [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 3 Mo Major Soviet Union: No.10 minute to Howe PS (message from President Bush to the Prime Minister) [Gorbachev's Visit to UK: Bush urges MT to raise issue of Central America] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 3 Mo Major Soviet Union: UKE Dublin briefing for MT (1900Z) ("Visit by President Gorbachev to Ireland") [MT to be briefed by Haughey on his talks with Gorbachev, in advance of her own meeting with Gorbachev] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 3 Mo Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 570 to FCO (1700Z) ("Gorbachev's Visit to Britain") [political context & analysis] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 3 Mo Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 572 to FCO (1700Z) ("Gorbachev's Visit: the Internal Scene") [analysis] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 3 Mo Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 571 to FCO (1400Z) ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit to Britain: External and Bilateral Aspects") [analysis] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 4 Tu Major Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit") [signing ceremony: details of the three agreements to be signed, and two postponed agreements] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 4 Tu Major Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Gorbachev Visit") [printed programme & final version of administrative plan] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 4 Tu Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Haughey) ["Mr. Gorbachev's Visit": report of Haughey's talks with Gorbachev] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 4 Tu Major Soviet Union: Charles Powell note to MT ("Meeting with Mr Gorbachev") [cover note only, for working papers] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 4 Tu Major Soviet Union: Percy Cradock briefing for MT ("Gorbachev Briefs") [internal situation and Eastern Europe] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 4 Tu Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 575 to FCO (0556Z) ("Call on I D Laptev, Editor of Izvestiya, 3 April 1989") [assessment of interview with MT, and of Soviet internal developments/election results] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 5 We Major Soviet Union: Ministry of Agriculture briefing for MT (Gorbachev Visit to UK: exports of UK grain to the USSR) [released Dec 2017]