Details

Subject(s)

• International relations [Browse]
• World politics [Browse]
• Diplomatic and consular service [Browse]
• Politics and government [Browse]
• Europe, Eastern [Browse]
• Soviet Union [Browse]

Related name

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

Series

• Northern Department and East European and Soviet Department (and succeeding departments): Registered Files (N, EN and ES Series). ; FCO28-004708. [More in this 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). ; FCO28-004708

Data source

• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1947-1982
• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1976-1982: Module 4
• History Commons

Summary note

A file containing documents concerning East-West relations. Subjects covered in the file include indirect talks on the war in Afghanistan -- the need for the United Kingdom to restore a dialogue with the Soviet Union -- and a NATO resolution on East-West relations after the crisis in Poland. Other subjects discussed in the file include the views of the new American Secretary of State, George Shultz, on the subject -- strains in East-West relations caused by Soviet behaviour -- and the increasing problems of the Soviet economy. Documents in the file include an address to the British parliament by the American president, Ronald Reagan -- an article by the West German foreign minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, entitled "Towards an overall Western strategy for peace, freedom, and progress" -- and a lecture on the future of East-West relations given by the former Canadian ambassador to the Soviet Union, Robert Ford.

Notes

• File date: 1982.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 2015.
• Title from Cold War Eastern Europe Module IV.

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