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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3174
Soviet Union (Human rights and the position of dissidents in the Soviet Union: policy towards the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)) (Part 2)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 277
Any docs withheld? 7

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88 Oct 28 Fr Major Soviet Union: President Reagan message to MT (Soviet proposal for CSCE human rights meeting in Moscow) ["I agree with you fully that the West must not be hoodwinked into such a Conference"] [released Jul 2017]
88 Nov 5 Sa Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1816 to FCO (1531Z) ("Call on Shevardnadze: CSCE Issues") [Ambassador Braithwaite record of conversation: wind-up of Vienna conference, and proposed Moscow conference] [released Jul 2017]
88 Nov 9 We Major Soviet Union: UKDEL CSCE Vienna telegram 386 to FCO (1242Z) ("Text of Shevardnadze's letter to Shultz") [wind-up of Vienna conference, and proposed Moscow conference] [released Jul 2017]
88 Nov 9 We Major Soviet Union: UKDEL CSCE Vienna telegram 387 to FCO (1312Z) ("Text of Shultz's reply, dated 8 November") [reply to Shevardnadze: wind-up of Vienna conference, and preconditions for agreeing to proposed Moscow conference] [released Jul 2017]
88 Nov 10 Th Major Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("CSCE: Moscow Human Rights Conference") [Western preconditions for agreeing to Soviet proposal] [released Jul 2017]
88 Nov 28 Mo Major Soviet Union: UKDEL CSCE Vienna telegram 426 to FCO (1000Z) ("CSCE Vienna Meeting: US Views") [wind-up, follow-up, and Western preconditions for agreeing to Soviet proposal for human rights conference in Moscow] [released Jul 2017]
88 Dec 8 Th Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1975 to FCO (1606Z) ("Gorbachev's UN Speech: Human Rights") [details & analysis] [released Jul 2017]
88 Dec 12 Mo Major Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("CSCE: Moscow Conference") [Howe recommendation that UK fall into line with anticipated US agreement to Soviet proposal; outline of Soviet concessions on human rights; draft MT message to Reagan] [released Jul 2017]
88 Dec 13 Tu Major Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("CSCE: Information Forum, 18 April-12 May 1989") [appointment of Lord Rees-Mogg as leader of UK delegation] [released Jul 2017]
88 Dec 21 We Major Soviet Union: MT message to President Reagan (Soviet proposal to hold a human rights conference in Moscow) ["We must make it clear to Moscow... that our agreement to attend a Moscow conference in 1991 is strictly conditional on continued progress meanwhile, which we will monitor closely"] [released Jul 2017]
88 Dec 30 Fr Major Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 3095 to FCO (1830Z) ("Vienna Meeting and Moscow Conference") [US formal response to Soviet proposal for human rights conference in Moscow expected imminently: details] [released Jul 2017]
89 Jan 1 Su Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("CSCE Meeting in Vienna: Moscow Human Rights Conference") [Charles Powell, General Colin Powell: coordination of UK/US public position on the Soviet-proposed conference] [released Jul 2017]
89 Jan 1 Su Major Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Vienna CSCE Meeting: Moscow Human Rights Conference") [account of conversations with General Colin Powell and George Shultz] [released Jul 2017]
89 Jan 2 Mo Major Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Vienna CSCE Meeting: Moscow Human Rights Conference") [Western response to Soviet proposal: MT draft response to Reagan & key outstanding questions] [released Jul 2017]
89 Jan 2 Mo Major Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Vienna CSCE Meeting: Moscow Human Rights Conference") [cover minute only referring to enclosed recent relevant papers; MT draft reply to Reagan] [released Jul 2017]
89 Jan 3 Tu Major Soviet Union: General Colin Powell meassage to Charles Powell ("Draft White House Press Statement") [US agreement at CSCE Vienna conference to follow-on conferences dealing with human rights] [released Jul 2017]
89 Jan 3 Tu Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("Moscow Human Rights Conference") [Charles Powell, General Colin Powell: proposed US response to Soviet proposal] [released Jul 2017]
89 Jan 3 Tu Major Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Rabbi Charles Middleburgh (proposed Moscow human rights conference & the plight of Jews in the Soviet Union) [preconditions for UK participation in the Conference] [released Jul 2017]
89 Jan 3 Tu Major Soviet Union: Charles Powell message to General Powell ("Moscow Human Rights Conference") [line for the press: preconditions for UK participation in the Conference] [released Jul 2017]
89 Jan 3 Tu Major Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Moscow Human Rights Conference") [Soviet proposal: UK/US responses for the media] [released Jul 2017]