Details

Subject(s)

• International relations [Browse]
• World politics [Browse]
• Bulgaria—Politics and government [Browse]
• Bulgaria—Foreign relations [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) ; FCO28-2707. [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) ; FCO28-2707

Data source

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

Summary note

A file of correspondence and reports concerning commercial relations between Bulgaria and the United Kingdom. The documents cover a visit to Bulgaria by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Trade, Eric Deakins -- details of the programme, which included a visit to the Plovdiv trade fair -- and details of Deakins' meetings with Bulgarian politicians and officials including Andrei Lukanov, Ivan Nedev, and Andon Traikov, during which discussions covered Anglo-Bulgarian trade relations, the Plovdiv fair, and the next Bulgarian five-year plan. Other documents in the file cover Deakins' visits to Bulgarian vineyards, factories, and a sheep-breeding station -- a mission to Bulgaria undertaken by members of the British Agricultural Export Council -- and a proposed visit to Britain by Varban Dzhambov, a deputy minister at the Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry. The file includes briefs for Deakins' visit, covering British aims and objectives for the visit, the historical and political background of Bulgaria, and Anglo-Bulgarian cultural exchanges.

Notes

• File date: 1975.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 2005.
• File was closed until December 29, 2005, under the Public Records Act 1958.
• Title from Cold War Eastern Europe Module III.

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