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1979 Sep 18 - 1991 Dec 3
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3548
Soviet Union (Contacts with and calls by Soviet Ambassadors)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Secret
Page count: 195
Any docs withheld? 2

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79 Sep 18 Tu Major Soviet Union: No.10 minute for MT (call by Soviet ambassador) [Anglo-Soviet relations] [declassified Jul 2017]
79 Sep 21 Fr Major Soviet Union: FCO minute for No.10 (call by Soviet ambassador) ["no reason for MT to receive Mr Lunkov"] [declassified Jul 2017]
79 Oct 14 Su Major Soviet Union: President Brezhnev letter to MT (military detente in Europe) [appeal against NATO plans for the deployment of nuclear missiles in Western Europe] [declassified Jul 2017]
79 Oct 15 Mo Major Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT (call on the Prime Minister by the Soviet Ambassador) [Brezhnev's Berlin speech on military detente] [declassified Jul 2017]
79 Oct 15 Mo Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Ambassador) [military detente & arms control; Anglo-Chinese relations] [declassified Jul 2017]
80 Oct 3 Fr Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Ambassador Lunkov) [situation in Afghanistan] [declassified Jul 2017]
80 Oct 17 Fr Major Soviet Union: FCO minute to No.10 (Soviet Ambassador farewell meeting with MT) [declassified Jul 2017]
81 Feb 13 Fr Major Soviet Union: Chief Whip's PS letter to Robin Barden (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster discussion with Soviet Ambassador: comments) [declassified Jul 2017]
81 Feb 13 Fr Major Soviet Union: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Francis Pym, Soviet Ambassador) [invasion of Afghanistan; British-Soviet relations; exchanges of Parliamentary visits] [declassified Jul 2017]
81 Mar 5 Th Major Soviet Union: FCO minute to Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster PS (British-Soviet relations & exchanges of Parliamentary visits after Afghanistan invasion) [declassified Jul 2017]
81 Mar 13 Fr Major Soviet Union: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster PS minute to FCO (British-Soviet exchanges of Parliamentary visits after Afghanistan invasion) [draft reply to Soviet Ambassador] [declassified Jul 2017]
81 Apr 23 Th Major Soviet Union: Foreign Secretary's PS record of conversation (Carrington, Popov) [arms control; British-Soviet relations] [declassified Jul 2017]
81 Apr 24 Fr Major Soviet Union: FCO telegram to UKE Moscow (Carrington meeting with Soviet Ambassador: arms control & British-Soviet relations) [declassified Jul 2017]
81 Dec 31 Th Major Soviet Union: Cabinet Office record of telephone conversation (Soviet Ambassador request to meet with MT) ["to receive the Soviet Ambassador would embarrass the Americans"] [declassified Jul 2017]
86 Apr 7 Mo Major Soviet Union: Powell minute to FCO (MT farewell meeting with Soviet Ambassador) [declassified Jul 2017]
86 Apr 11 Fr Major Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT ("Soviet Ambassador's Farewell Call") ["important to use Popov's farewell calls to (...) establish ourselves in Soviet eyes as independent interlocutors with views of our own"] [declassified Jul 2017]
86 Apr 14 Mo Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Ambassador) [farewell call: Anglo-Soviet relations, arms control, East-West relations] [declassified Jul 2017]
86 Apr 30 We Major Soviet Union: Powell minute for MT (meeting with the Soviet Ambassador: line to take) [Gorbachev's message: arms control, Chernobyl accident] [declassified Jul 2017]
86 Apr 30 We Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Ambassador) [Gorbachev's message: Tokyo Economic Summit, East-West relations, arms control, terrorism, Chernobyl accident] [declassified Jul 2017]
86 May 12 Mo Major Soviet Union: Privy Council Office record of conversation (Lord President, Soviet Ambassador) [Chernobyl accident: media coverage & seriousness of the incident] [declassified Jul 2017]