Details

Subject(s)

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization [Browse]
• International relations [Browse]
• World politics [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Politics and government [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Foreign relations [Browse]
• China—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) ; FCO28-802. [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) ; FCO28-802

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 the Sino-Soviet border dispute. The documents cover Soviet approaches to the governments of non-communist countries, including the delivery of a statement describing the current border dispute, the history of Soviet relations with China, and the events that led to the deterioration of Chinese-Soviet relations in the early 1960s. The statement also included criticism of Chinese domestic and foreign policy, and outlined the Soviet policy of friendship with the "spirit of socialist internationalism". Other documents in the file cover NATO discussions on the statement -- concerns that the statement may be a warning of Soviet intentions to launch a pre-emptive strike -- a meeting between the Soviet ambassador to the U.K., Mikhail Smirnovskii, and the British Foreign Secretary, Michael Stewart -- and Soviet representations made in Australia, Iceland, and Malaysia, with further commentary noting that the U.S. has not been included in the current Soviet initiative.

Notes

• File date: 1969.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 2000.
• File was closed until January 1, 2000, under the Public Records Act 1958.
• Title from Cold War Eastern Europe Module III.

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