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1989 Jun 16 - 1989 Aug 1
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2871
Soviet Union (Visit to the UK by General Dimitri Yazov, Soviet Defence Minister, July 1989)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 29
Any docs withheld? 2

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Date Value Title
89 Jun 16 Fr Major Soviet Union: Younger PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of Soviet Defence Minister to the UK") [resumption of Defence contacts: MT agrees to meet with Yazov, in addition to his meeting with Younger & Howe] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jul 24 Mo Major Soviet Union: Kenneth Warren MP letter to Howe (Visit of Soviet Defence Minister to the UK) [analysis of Soviet internal politics] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jul 24 Mo Major Soviet Union: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Soviet Defence Minister") [released Dec 2016]
89 Jul 24 Mo Major Soviet Union: MT letter to President Gorbachev (Visit of Soviet Defence Minister Yazov) [forewarning of George Younger's replacement by Tom King] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jul 25 Tu Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Younger, Yazov, Zamyatin) ["Prime Minister's Meeting with the Soviet Defence Minister"] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jul 27 Th Major Soviet Union: MT letter to General Yazov (Soviet Defence Minister's Visit to the UK) ["your visit is proving very successful"] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jul 28 Fr Major Soviet Union: Ministry of Defence record of conversation ("Note of Final Discussions between the Secretary of State for Defence and the Minister of Defence for the USSR: MOD, 28th July 1989") [Younger, Yazov] [released Dec 2016]
89 Aug 1 Tu Major Soviet Union: General Yazov letter to Younger (Visit to the UK of the Minister of Defence for the USSR) [courtesy note following visit] [released Dec 2016]