Archive

1989 Apr 19 - 1990 May 31
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3175
Soviet Union (Prime Minister's visits to the Soviet Union, September 1989 and June 1990: policy) (Part 3)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 188
Any docs withheld? 5

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Showing items 21 - 36 of 36

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Date Value Title
89 Sep 21 Th Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 267 to UKE Tokyo (1537Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit: TASS commentary") [text of article] [released Jul 2017]
89 Sep 23 Sa Key Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gorbachev) [Gorbachev's assessment of current internal situation; human rights/emigration; Eastern Europe; US/Soviet relations; arms control/chemical weapons/START; NATO/CFE/SNF; bilateral issues; environmentalism;China; Japan; Middle East; German unification/Warsaw Pact] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Sep 23 Sa Major Soviet Union: Richard Pollock (interpreter) record of conversation (MT, Gorbachev) ["some impressions and observations (to be taken in conjunction with full report by CDP)"] [released Jul 2017]
89 Sep 23 Sa Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1631 to FCO (1603Z) (Prime Minister's meeting with Gorbachev) ["PM's speaking note for the US Administration"] [released Jul 2017]
89 Sep 24 Su Major Soviet Union: Powell minute to Hurd PS ("Prime Minister's meeting with Mr Gorbachev") [follow-up actions] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Sep 24 Su Major Soviet Union: No.10 minute to John Major PS ("Prime Minister's Visit to the Soviet Union") [cover note for MT thank you letters to Gorbachev, Primakov, and Ambassador Braithwaite] [released Jul 2017]
89 Sep 25 Mo Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1635 to FCO (1342Z) ("Prime Minister's Stopover to Moscow: Soviet Media Coverage") [released Jul 2017]
89 Sep 26 Tu Major Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Your Visit to Moscow: Further Message to President Bush") [cover note for draft text & full record of MT/Gorbachev conversation] [released Jul 2017]
89 Sep 27 We Major Soviet Union: President of the National Federation of Far Eastern Prisoner of War Clubs & Associations letter to MT (Prime Minister's Visit to Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery at Yokohama) [letter of thanks, following MT's visits to Japan & Soviet Union] [released Jul 2017]
89 Sep 28 Th Major Soviet Union: Richard Pollock letter to Charles Powell (Prime Minister's Meeting with Gorbachev) [MT's interpreter: thanks to MT for her letter to him; assessment of the meeting's success & of Gorbachev personally] [released Jul 2017]
89 Oct 9 Mo Major Soviet Union: Charles Powell letter to Richard Pollock (Prime Minister's Meeting with Gorbachev) [MT's interpreter: rumours of Powell's departure greatly exaggerated] [released Jul 2017]
89 Oct 26 Th Major Soviet Union: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("'Britain in Kiev' and the Prime Minister's Visit to the USSR") [plans for the exhibition; proposed programme for MT] [released Jul 2017]
90 May 28 Mo Major Soviet Union: No.10 minute to Hurd PS ("British Month in Kiev: Message of Welcome from the Prime Minister") [approved text] [released Jul 2017]
90 May 29 Tu Major Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to Hurd PS ("Prime Minister's Visit to the Soviet Union") [deadlines for main briefing & for additional briefing on US/Soviet summit; request to extend Hurd's bilateral with MT, to discuss Moscow visit] [released Jul 2017]
90 May 31 Th Major Soviet Union: Powell briefing for MT ("Visit to the Soviet Union") ["the background to the visit is unusually fraught"; Soviet domestic issues/Baltic states; Yeltsin; MT visit to Kiev; US/Soviet summit; START; Germany; NATO; defence in Europe; arms control; MT meeting with Soviet military; CFE; CSCE summit; biological weapons; regional issues Soviet Jews] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 May 31 Th Major Soviet Union: Virginia Bottomley PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to the Soviet Union: 7-10 June") ["Health Care Trade with the USSR"] [released Jul 2017]