Details

Subject(s)

• Warsaw Treaty (1955 May 14) [Browse]
• International relations [Browse]
• World politics [Browse]
• Russia—Foreign relations—Soviet Union [Browse]
• Czechoslovakia—Economic conditions [Browse]
• Czechoslovakia [Browse]

Related name

• Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office [Browse]
• Coherent Digital (Firm) [Browse]

Series

• Cold War Eastern Europe. [More in this series]
• FCO28: Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Northern Department and East European and Soviet Department (and succeeding departments): Registered Files (N, EN and ES Series) ; FCO28-578. [More in this series]
• FCO28 : Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Northern Department and East European and Soviet Department (and succeeding departments): Registered Files (N, EN and ES Series) ; FCO28-578

Data source

• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1947-1982
• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1967-1975: Module 3
• History Commons

Summary note

A file containing documents concerning diplomatic relations between Western countries and Warsaw Pact countries after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. The file includes a discussion of a Foreign Office instruction that diplomatic officials should decline invitations to attend Soviet receptions in response to the invasion of Czechoslovakia -- a letter from the British ambassador to Moscow reporting that he attended a reception held in honour of the astronaut Georgii Beregovoi -- and a letter from a British M.P. suggesting that British officials boycott Soviet events. The file also includes a note from the British embassy in Bonn reporting that attendance by foreign diplomats at a Soviet embassy party in Bonn was low -- a record of a Parliamentary Question asking whether British officials had attended Soviet national holiday receptions -- and a discussion of whether officials from Warsaw Pact countries should receive annual Christmas cards from the British prime minister.

Notes

• File date: 1968.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 1999.
• File was closed until January 1, 1999, under the Public Records Act 1958.
• NATO documents in this file were removed in accordance with international agreements. Cabinet documents in this file were removed and destroyed in accordance with Cabinet Office instructions. The originals should be found in the Cabinet Office r
• Title from Cold War Eastern Europe Module III.

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