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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 5 We Major Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit to UK") [main briefing] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 5 We Major Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit: Lebanon") [key points to raise with Gorbachev, on current situation] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 5 We Major Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Gorbachev Visit: Bilateral Agreements") [Investment Protection; school for Armenia; visas] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 5 We Major Soviet Union: Kenneth Baker PS letter to No.10 ("Gorbachev Visit: numbers of undergraduates studying Russian in UK universities") [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 5 We Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gorbachev) [Soviet elections; Namibia; Afghanistan; Cuba; Mozambique] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 5 We Major Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit: Signing of Agreements") [speaking note on school for Armenia, Investment Promotion & Protection, and MoU on visa procedures] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 5 We Major Soviet Union: No.10 Social Secretary minute to Charles Powell ("Lunch at Windsor Castle Friday, 7 April") [seating plan] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 5 We Major Soviet Union: No.10 minute to MT (Gorbachev Visit to UK: signing ceremony: school for Armenia) [Kenneth Baker briefing on the model of the school, to be shown to Gorbachev after the ceremony] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 5 We Major Soviet Union: UKE Cape Town briefing for MT (1400Z) ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Mr Gorbachev: Southern Africa") [Namibia; South Africa] [released Dec 2017]
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 6 Th Major Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Gorbachev's Visit: Arrival and Departure") [review of arrangements for departure, following MT criticism of inadequate arrival arrangements] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 6 Th Major Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT ("President Gorbachev's Visit: Romania") [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 6 Th Major Soviet Union: Richard Pollock (interpreter) record of conversation (MT, Gorbachev) [informal record of Gorbachev's side of the conversation] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 8 Sa Major Soviet Union: Charles Powell message to General Scowcroft (1215Z) (Gorbachev visit to UK) [report on talks with MT: assurance that topics of Nambia & Central America were discussed, as requested] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 8 Sa Major Soviet Union: Conservative Research Department paper ("Why Mr Gorbachev Came to Britain") [Charles Powell's amendments to draft] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 8 Sa Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 613 to FCO (0800Z) ("Gorbachev Visit to UK: Soviet Media Coverage of Second Full Day") [released Dec 2017]
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 10 Mo Major Soviet Union: Cradock minute to MT ("Gorbachev's Guildhall Speech") ["In an uninspired speech, one passage struck me, the sharp warning to NATO to drop the idea of modernising tactical nuclear weapons"; full text of speech attached] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 10 Mo Major Soviet Union: Chairman of ICI letter to MT (Gorbachev Visit to UK) [financing for joint industrial ventures] [released Dec 2017]
89 Apr 10 Mo Major Soviet Union: National Council for Soviet Jewry letter to MT (Gorbachev Visit to UK) ["you have, with respect to President Gorbachev's visit, done everything we could have expected"] [released Dec 2017]