Janus: The Papers of Neil Kinnock

Churchill/KNNK 19 contains:
1	Appointments and invitations
2	Visits
3	Visit to East Africa
4	Visit to Southern Africa
5	Visits to NK as European Commissioner
6	Visits by NK as European Commissioner

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The Papers of Neil Kinnock

Title	Visits
Reference	KNNK 19/2
Covering Dates	1983–1994
Extent and Medium	28.5 archive boxes

Content and context

Briefings, correspondence and arrangements for NK's visits and meetings, including NK's various visits to the United States, the Soviet Union, South America and the Middle East.

Churchill/KNNK 19/2 contains:

Visit to Bradford, Yorkshire, and CND rally. Schedule for the visit, including a briefing on race relations in Bradford, and also rough speech notes. Also includes notes for a speech by NK on nuclear disarmament [? given at a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament protest in London, October 1983].
1 file.

Sep 1983-Oct 1983

Meetings with overseas leaders. Briefings, notes and correspondence on meetings, with individuals including: Milka Planinc, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, Nov 1983, on human rights issues; Turgut Ozal, Prime Minister of Turkey, on human rights and Cyprus, Feb 1986; Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, on economic issues, nuclear weapons, the development of the United Nations and Yugoslavia; Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German Foreign Minister and Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany, on the Inter-Governmental Conferences, June 1991; Lech Walesa, President of Poland, on the Polish economic condition and relations with the Soviet Union; Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt, on the Middle East peace process; Jalal Talabani, leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and Massoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party; Boris Yeltsin, President of the Soviet Union, on the Soviet economic situation and arms control, Jan 1992; F W de Klerk, President of South Africa, on sanctions and the political situation.
1 file.

Nov 1983-Feb 1992

Socialist Group, Paris. Press cuttings on NK's visit to the Socialist Group of the European Parliament, Paris [France] (12-13 Jan). Also includes a list of engagements for Feb 1984 and a programme for the Parliamentary Lobby Journalists' centenary luncheon.
1 file.

Jan 1984

Visit to New York and Washington, Feb 1984. Includes: notes by Patricia Hewitt, Press and Broadcasting Secretary to NK, on lessons learnt for future visits; notes of a meeting with George Shultz, Secretary of State, on Lebanon and Syria, East-West relations, Central America and nuclear weapons; notes of a meeting with Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of Defense, on disarmament and Lebanon; notes by NK on defence; shorthand notes of a meeting with Ronald Reagan, President of the United States, and also of the meetings with Shultz and Weinberger; notes for media interviews; requests for interviews, with correspondents including Christopher Hitchens.
1 file.

Nov 1983-Jul 1984

Visit to New York and Washington, Feb 1984. Correspondence and press cuttings on NK's visit to the United States, including correspondence with Edward Koch, Mayor of New York, and with Sir Martin Ryle on nuclear disarmament, and a summary of NK's speech to the National Press Club, Washington, on the practice of freedom. Also includes an extract from a speech by NK to the Socialist International on arms control, Nov 1983, and NK's preface to a report by Stuart Holland and Donald Anderson on Central America, "Kissinger's Kingdom".
1 file.

Oct 1983-Jul 1984

Visit to New York and Washington, Feb 1984. Correspondence on speaking engagements in the United States, including press releases, texts of articles, letters of thanks etc. Also includes notes for interviews during a visit to Southampton [Hampshire], Apr 1984.
1 file.

Nov 1983-Apr 1984

Visits to Crawley and Eastbourne [Sussex]. Notes and correspondence on NK's visit to the National Federation of Self Employed and Small Businesses conference, March 1984. Includes a statement to counter a speech by the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, on her strategic goals.
1 file.

Mar 1984-Apr 1984

Visits. Includes: draft questionnaire for regional visits; programme, briefing and correspondence on NK's visit to Cardiff, Wales, mainly for the Welsh Marketing Awards.
1 file.

Oct 1984

Visits. Correspondence and notes on arrangements for visits including: the funeral of Indira Gandhi, Delhi [India]; the National Graphical Association conference, Blackpool [Lancashire]; a Labour Party rally in support of the miners, Stoke on Trent [Staffordshire], including brief correspondence with Arthur Scargill, President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and brief notes on a threat made against NK and Scargill.
1 file.

Nov 1984

Visit to Moscow. Detailed briefing notes and programme for NK's visit to the Soviet Union and meeting with President Konstantin Chernenko. Includes a report on the visit to the Soviet Union by the Parliamentary party's Foreign Affairs Group, 1981.
1 file.

Nov 1984

Visit to Moscow. Includes: briefings for NK's visit to the Soviet Union, particularly on defence and human rights; notes of NK's meeting with President Konstantin Chernenko on arms reduction; speech notes; programmes and arrangements for various visits; transcript of an interview by NK for Radio Moscow; information for press.
1 file.

Nov 1984

Meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev. Briefing and arrangements for and notes on NK's meeting with Gorbachev during his visit to London as leader of the Parliamentary Delegation from the Soviet Union. Subjects include the demilitarisation of space, reductions in strategic and nuclear weapons and human rights. Also includes press briefing and transcript of a Weekend World television broadcast on the visit.
1 file.

Dec 1984

Visit to Nicaragua and Mexico. Correspondence, briefings and draft statement on NK's visit to Nicaragua for the inauguration of [José] Daniel Ortega as President and his visit to Mexico. Correspondents include Baroness Young, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
1 file.

Jan 1985

Visit to Nicaragua and Mexico, Jan 1985. Detailed briefing on Nicaragua.
3 files.

Nov 1983-Jan 1985

Visit to Nicaragua and Mexico, Jan 1985. Detailed briefing on Central America, including general briefings and information specific to El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Mexico.
4 files.

Oct 1983-Mar 1985

Visit to Nicaragua and Mexico, Jan 1985. Briefings, schedules and correspondence on arrangements, with correspondents including: Francisco Cuevas de Cancino, Mexican Ambassador to Britain; Francisco d'Escoto, Nicaraguan Ambassador; Miguel d'Escoto, Nicaraguan Minister of Foreign Affairs. Also includes: schedules for September 1984 [for a cancelled visit]; shorthand notes of NK's meetings with Fidel Castro [President of Cuba], Bayardo Arce, member of the Nicaraguan National Directorate and Father Cesar Jerez; notes on NK's meeting with Arce; press schedules.
2 files.

Aug 1984-Jan 1985

Visit to Nicaragua and Mexico, Jan 1985: briefings. Mainly briefings on Mexico, including draft speech notes for the end of NK's visit to Mexico.
1 file.

Jan 1985

Visit to Nicaragua and Mexico, Jan 1985: notebook. Notes from the visit, mainly in shorthand.
1 file.

Jan 1985

Visit to Nicaragua and Mexico, Jan 1985: cuttings. Press cuttings on Central America and NK's visit.
1 file.

Jan 1985

Meeting with President Raul Alfonsin of Argentina. Argentinean press coverage of the meeting.
1 file.

Sep 1985

Visit to West Germany. Programme and briefing on defence policy, including papers and press cuttings on the summit on arms control between the United States and Soviet Union at Geneva [Switzerland], 1985 and papers and press cuttings on the German Social Democratic Party, mainly relating to European defence policy. Also includes a programme for a visit to Sweden for a European conference, and arrangements for a meeting with Bill Keys, Chairman of the Trade Union Co-Ordinating Committee.
1 file.

Nov 1985

Visit to Broadwater Farm Estate. Correspondence and press cuttings on NK's visit to Haringey [London], including correspondence between NK and Bernie Grant, prospective parliamentary candidate for Tottenham.
1 file.

Feb 1986

Visit to Italy. Includes: itinerary; briefings; correspondence with individuals including Bruno Bottai, Italian Ambassador to Britain; notes of meetings with the President, Francesco Cossiga and Giulio Andreotti, Foreign Secretary.
1 file.

Mar 1986-Apr 1986

Rugby Football: centenary dinners of London Welsh and Cross Keys Clubs. Includes rough speech notes.
1 file.

Apr 1986-Jun 1986

Visit to India. Press cuttings on NK's India visit. Also includes a cartoon of NK by "Ranga".
1 file.

May 1986

Visit to Fabian Society. Text of NK's 2nd Fabian lecture, "Righting the Wrongs of the New Right", given at Ardwick and District Fabian Society, Manchester, with cuttings of press coverage.
1 file.

Sep 1986

Visits. Includes: German press cuttings of NK's visit to Berlin [Germany]; arrangements and briefing for NK's meeting with Allan Boesak, South African United Democratic Front; notes on a request for sponsorship from "Jarrow 86".
1 file.

Oct 1986

Visits. Speech notes, correspondence with individuals including Bernie Grant, Leader of Haringey Council and Michael Winner, Chairman of the Police Memorial Trust (5), and arrangements for the unveiling of a memorial to Police Constable Keith Blakelock, Haringey, London [following Blakelock's death in the Broadwater Farm riot, Oct 1985].
1 file.

Nov 1986

Visits. Arrangements for visits including: lunch with the Prince of Wales, including correspondence with the Prince's Private Secretary, Sir John Riddell; a lunch hosted by NK for Johannes Rau, German Social Democratic Party; a visit to Sheffield, Yorkshire, for the 60th anniversary of Labour Party control of the city, including correspondence with David Blunkett, leader of the City Council (2); a meeting with a deputation from Motherwell District Council on the steel industry in the area [North Lanarkshire, Scotland].
1 file.

Dec 1986

Visits to United States, Nov-Dec 1986 and Mar 1987. Includes: programmes and schedules; memoranda by John Eatwell [Economic Adviser to NK] and Patricia Hewitt [Press and Broadcasting Secretary to NK] on the aims of NK's visits; correspondence with Fenton Communications Inc on NK's media schedule and with individuals including John Kenneth Galbraith (2); invitations; press cuttings; papers for background information, including the Economic Report of the People, from the Center for Popular Economics, and a paper on the effects of international trade on American industry.
2 files.

Jan 1986-Dec 1986

Visit to United States, Nov-Dec 1986. Includes: press cuttings, particularly on Labour's policy on defence and on South Africa; papers on a dinner for NK given by the British Ambassador; briefing papers; outlines for NK's speeches at Harvard and Atlanta; itinerary; correspondence, particularly with Fenton Communications Inc on NK's media schedule, and with others including Howard Baker and James Mellon, British Consul-General, New York.
2 files.

Mar 1986-Jan 1987

Visit to United States, Nov-Dec 1986: schedules and arrangements.
1 file.

Nov 1986

Visits to United States, Nov-Dec 1986 and Mar 1987. Detailed briefing papers and schedule, including policy briefings on South Africa, civil rights, defence and the economy.
2 files.

Nov 1986-Dec 1986

Visit to United States, Nov-Dec 1986: US press attitudes to nuclear defence. Press cuttings, press summary and papers including an issue of International Security on conventional defence in Europe.
1 file.

Nov 1986

Visit to United States, Nov-Dec 1986: defence policy. Includes: text of NK's speech at the Kennedy School of Government, Boston, "Components of security: defence, democracy and development"; briefings on the launch of Labour's non-nuclear defence policy; press release on a meeting of the European Socialist and Social Democratic parties of NATO on security policy (Oslo [Norway], Sept 1986); note on Labour and the 'nuclear umbrella'.
1 file.

Dec 1986

Visit to United States, Nov-Dec 1986: report. Report on the visit by Fenton Communications Inc, including: a list of people met by NK; press coverage; the British and American media response; follow up; suggestions for a 1987 visit and further relations.
1 file.

Dec 1986

Visits to United States, Nov-Dec 1986 and Mar 1987: notes and later correspondence. Includes: a memorandum on options for the 1987 visit; notes on the Leader's Fund; memorandum from John Eatwell [Economic Adviser to NK] on financing activities in the United States; letter from NK on the prejudiced attitude of the British press towards him; correspondence with Fenton Communications Inc on media strategy for the 1987 visit, and also correspondence with individuals including Bryan Gould.
1 file.

Dec 1986-Feb 1987

Visits to United States, Nov-Dec 1986 and Mar 1987: press attitudes. Includes: final report from Fenton Communications Inc on the press coverage for NK's visit; press cuttings; correspondence with journalists, Fenton Communications and others including Howard Baker; notes on press briefings, interviews, members of the press party going with NK etc; correspondence on concerns that the White House had misrepresented the talks between NK and Ronald Reagan, President of the United States, Mar 1987.
2 files.

Sep 1984-Apr 1987

Visits to United States, Nov-Dec 1986 and Mar 1987: press. Includes press cuttings, briefings for interviews, press releases etc, and also text of NK's speech at the Kennedy School of Government, Boston, "Components of security: defence, democracy and development".
1 file.

Nov 1986-Dec 1986

Visits to United States, Nov-Dec 1986 and Mar 1987. Cuttings and correspondence on American and Canadian press coverage, and non-nuclear defence, with requests for interviews and invitations. Correspondents include: Robert Rae, leader of the Canadian New Democratic Party; Vice-President George Bush; Gene La Rocque, Director of the Centre for Defense Information; Harold Willens; Jesse Jackson; Jack Kemp and Bill Bradley, US Congressional Summit on Exchange Rates and the Dollar; Charles Price, American Ambassador to Britain; Walter Mondale; Lord Ezra, Chairman of the British American Chamber of Commerce. . Also includes: notes of a meeting with Bush, July 1985; draft of an article by NK for the New York Times on defence, Mar 1987; transcript of a BBC Panorama interview with NK on defence policy; briefing for an interview with the Wall Street Journal and New York Times.
2 files.

Oct 1983-Sep 1987

Visits to United States, Nov-Dec 1986 and Mar 1987. Notes and background papers, particularly on the American defence budget and response to NK's defence policy, and also including: cuttings from the American press; correspondence with individuals including Armand Hammer, Chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corporation (2); schedules; summaries of the visits by John Eatwell [Economic adviser to NK] and Fenton Communications Inc; briefing note by Patricia Hewitt [Press and Broadcasting Secretary to NK] on subjects including concerns at White House briefings on NK's meeting with President Ronald Reagan, 1987.
2 files.

Apr 1985-Mar 1987

Visit to United States, Mar 1987. Includes: schedule; arrangements by John Eatwell [Economic adviser to NK] and Patricia Hewitt [Press and Broadcasting Secretary to NK]; correspondence and letters of thanks, with correspondents including Walter Mondale, Chairman of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs; text of NK's speech to the US-EEC Association, New York.
1 file.

Feb 1987-Jul 1988

Visit to United States, Mar 1987. Includes: correspondence with individuals including Charles Price, American Ambassador to Britain; notes and summary of the meeting between NK and President Ronald Reagan; statement by NK after the meeting.
1 file.

Jan 1987-Jun 1987

Visits to United States: later correspondence. Letters of thanks, invitations to later events, expenses etc, with correspondents including: James Wright, Speaker of the US House of Representatives; Walter Mondale, Chairman of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs; John Kenneth Galbraith.
1 file.

Feb 1987-Jul 1989

Visit to Luton. Programme and briefing, particularly on the future of the General Motors factory in Luton.
1 file.

Jan 1987

Briefings for meetings. Includes: briefing and correspondence on allegations by Lord Glenamara [earlier Edward Short] that the security services set up a false Swiss bank account in his name in 1974; note on a Police Inspectorate lunch; briefing for a meeting with Lim Kit Siang, General Secretary of the Malaysian Democratic Action Party; briefing for a meeting with Sam McCluskie on hunting; note for a meeting with Joan Lestor and Lord Pitt on the ethnic minority vote.
1 file.

Jan 1987-Feb 1987

Meeting with French Ambassador. Notebook from a meeting between NK and the ambassador on nuclear defence, and other subjects including the European Monetary System.
1 file.

c Feb 1987

Visits and meetings. Includes: briefing for breakfast with Linbert Spencer, Chief Executive of Project Fullemploy and the PRISM group supporting social and economic development in the black community; briefing for and notes of a meeting with Arts for Labour on the new Arts and Media Ministry, including correspondence with Bill Owen, Chairman of Arts for Labour, on the Charter for the Arts (3).
1 file.

Mar 1987

Visits and meetings. Briefings and correspondence on NK's meeting with Mohammad Khan Junejo, Prime Minister of Pakistan, Apr 1987 and on the opening of Sirhowy Country Park, Gwent [Wales], May 1987. Correspondents include Sir William Heseltine [Private Secretary to the Queen].
1 file.

Feb 1987-May 1987

Visits. Includes: correspondence with Eric Hammond, General Secretary of the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunication and Plumbing Union (EEPTU), inviting NK to the union's biennial conference; arrangements for a visit to Barnsley [Yorkshire] for the 100th annual miners' demonstration and gala.
1 file.

Jun 1987

Visits. Includes: briefing for a meeting with Margaret Hodge [Chairman of the Association of London Authorities] on problems for Labour groups in London Borough Councils; arrangements for a post-election party; the unveiling of a plaque in a miners' welfare, Hordern, County Durham; notes on Owen Oyston and the News on Sunday; briefing for a meeting with the Scottish Campaign Co-ordinating Committee; briefing for a meeting with Enrique Silva Cima, President of the Chilean Radical Party.
1 file.

Jul 1987-Sep 1987

Visits to Welsh Proms. Correspondence and briefing on arrangements for NK's visits.
1 file.

Jul 1987-Jul 1988

Visits to Wales. Correspondence and briefings on arrangements for the opening of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers' union offices in Cardiff, going to a funeral, visiting a special school and the Islwyn constituency party annual dinner, Gwent.
1 file.

Oct 1987

Visits. Briefings and timetables for the visits of Karolos Papoulias, Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Francesco Cossiga, Italian President and Giulio Andreotti, Italian Foreign Minister. Includes rough notes from NK's meeting with Papoulias.
1 file.

Nov 1987

Opening of Territorial Army Centre. Briefing, arrangements and timetable for NK's visit to the Centre at Cwmbran, Gwent [Wales].
1 file.

Nov 1987

Visits and meetings. Includes: briefing for a visit to Cardiff, Wales for the unveiling of a statue of Aneurin Bevan; note on a meeting with John Evans, Steve Cram and Brendan Foster on a charity football match; note for a meeting with Duncan Shaw, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
1 file.

Nov 1987-Dec 1987

Visit to Wales. Timetable and briefing for a television interview for the BBC Wales programme Public Account and also for a visit to Pontllanfraith Comprehensive School. Includes notes and figures on Welsh unemployment, Labour Party election results in Wales, local government, Welsh language teaching and Welsh nationalism.
1 file.

Jan 1988

Visits. Briefings for meetings with K M Safi Ullah, the Bangladesh High Commissioner [1988, not 1989 as marked], and the Police Federation and for an Australia Day reception, including cuttings on relations with Australia.
1 file.

Jan 1988

Visit to Indian Workers' Association. Briefing and arrangements for NK's visit to open the Association's offices in Southall [London], including statements on race equality and correspondence with Piara Khabra, President of the Association and Sydney Bidwell [MP for Ealing Southall].
1 file.

Jan 1988

American meetings. Includes: rough notes of NK's meeting with Senator Joseph Biden, Jan 1988, particularly on the economic situation, a "new Bretton Woods" agreement and the INF treaty [Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces] and arms control; briefing for a meeting with the American Ambassador to Britain [? Charles Price] on arms control; correspondence with Biden (2), Price and Ronald Brown, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee; briefings for meetings with Paul Warnke and Henry Catto, American Ambassador to Britain.
1 file.

Jan 1988-Nov 1989

Visit to the Middle East. Detailed briefings for Egypt, Jordan, and Israel, including itineraries for NK and Glenys Kinnock, details for a visit to the West Bank and Gaza by Glenys Kinnock and letters of thanks.
3 files.

Feb 1988

Visit to the Middle East: schedules. Schedules for NK's visits to Jordan, Israel, Egypt and Palestine. Includes rough notes of an interview for BBC radio and on a lunch at [or concerning] Gaza.
1 file.

Feb 1988

Visit to the Middle East. Papers on NK's visit to Jordan, Israel, Egypt and Palestine, including: text and draft of NK's press statement from Jerusalem; overall assessment; rough notes of meetings with Yitzhak Shamir, Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Minister of Defence, ? [Shimon Peres, Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs] and Hosni Mubarak [President of Egypt].
1 file.

Jan 1988-Jul 1988

Visit to Wandsworth, London. Includes papers and briefings on the effect on businesses of the new Uniform Business Rate.
1 file.

Feb 1988

Meeting with Eastern Valley Medical Association, Gwent. Includes correspondence, press cuttings etc on the growth of nursing homes in the area and cuts in National Health Service provision in Gwent [Wales].
1 file.

Feb 1988

DHSS visit, Gwent. Programme and briefings for NK's visit to Newport Department of Health and Social Security office, Gwent [Wales], particularly on the Social Fund and on a petition from local ambulance staff against the closure of their station.
1 file.

Mar 1988

Dinners with business leaders. Correspondence and arrangements for various dinners, with correspondents including: Robin Leigh-Pemberton [later Lord Kingsdown], Governor of the Bank of England; Michael Angus, Chairman of Unilever plc; John Smith [Treasury and economic affairs spokesman] on Lord Plowden's Dining Group (3); Denys Henderson, Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries plc (ICI) (2).
1 file.

Feb 1988-Mar 1988

Visits and meetings. Includes: note of a call from Sir Robin Butler [Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service] on a leak to Labour from No 10; a briefing for a meeting with Butler and correspondence with Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister and Tam Dalyell on a file concerning Hugh Gaitskell, former leader of the Labour Party, which had not been released under the 30-year rule; briefing for a photo-call with a delegation from the Transport and General Workers Union's Agricultural and Allied Workers Trade Group on the farmworkers' pay claim, including a copy of a letter from Lord Carter [agriculture and rural affairs spokesman], notes on agriculture used for the 1987 General Election and correspondence with Barry Leathwood, National Secretary of the Group; note on a meeting with John Blashford-Snell on Operation Raleigh.
1 file.

Mar 1988

General Welsh visits. Correspondence and arrangements for opening Pen-y-Fan caravan park, Gwent, a pensioners' rally in Llandrindod Wells, opening an office for a firm of solicitors at Bargoed, various fetes and interviews and a dinner in honour of Lord Callaghan.
1 file.

Apr 1988-Jul 1988

Visits and meetings. Briefings for a meeting with Swedish newspaper editors (see also KNNK 8/24), on examples of Conservative policies, on housing and the Poll Tax, and for a dinner with Richard Attenborough on the film industry.
1 file.

May 1988

Visits. Briefings and arrangements for visits and meetings including: the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) conference; visit to Girobank Operations Centre, Bootle, including correspondence with [George] Malcolm Williamson, Managing Director of Girobank plc and papers on the privatisation of Girobank; visit to Liverpool unemployment centre, including a letter from Dale Campbell-Savours on NK's visit to his constituency; visit to Cleator Moor, Cumbria, for the unveiling of a mining monument, including a letter from Jack Cunningham; meeting with shop stewards from Sellafield nuclear reprocessing facility [see also KNNK 19/2/72]; a reception for UCATT [Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians].
1 file.

Jun 1988

Notebook "BNFL meeting". Notes of meetings (mainly in shorthand), including a meeting with or on British Nuclear Fuels plc.
1 file.

c 1987-c 1989

Visits and meetings. Briefings for a lunch with the Police Commissioners at Scotland Yard, and for a meeting with Scottish women Provosts. Also includes a letter confirming NK's visit to Botswana (see KNNK 19/4).
1 file.

Jul 1988

Meeting with Edward Fenech-Adami, Prime Minister of Malta. Briefing and programme for Fenech-Adami's visit, with rough notes of NK's meeting with him.
1 file.

Sep 1988

Briefings for meetings. Briefings for meetings with individuals including: the new Israeli Ambassador, Yoav Biran; John Edmonds, General Secretary of the GMB union and Tom Burlison, Regional Secretary; Maharajkrishna Rasgotra, the new Indian High Commissioner; members of the British karate team. Also includes note on NK and the Enniskillen Memorial service.
1 file.

Nov 1988-Dec 1988

Notebooks of meetings. Includes: rough notes of a meeting with [? the British Coal Corporation] on the future of Merthyr Vale colliery [Wales]; notes on dealing with constituency correspondence and visits; notes from a press briefing on the [?] European Single Market Act and economic and monetary union.
1 file.

Dec 1988

Notebooks of meetings. Includes rough notes of a lunch with representatives of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) on subjects including union elections, the redevelopment of Cardiff Bay and the Rechem hazardous waste incinerator in Pontypool [Wales]. Also includes brief notes from a meeting with a Russian delegation.
1 file.

c 1988-c 1990

Notebooks of meetings. Rough notes from visits and meetings including: a [?] visit to Birmingham and a CBI lunch; a meeting on South Africa and sanctions; a note on [death threats issued against] Salman Rushdie; a meeting with Marie Walsh, Anti-Poll Tax Union, Newbridge, Gwent [Wales].
1 file.

c 1988-c 1990

Visits and meetings. Includes: briefing notes and record of a meeting with Moshe Arens, Israeli Foreign Minister; notes of a meeting with the Prison Officers Association; briefing for meeting with Hussain Muhammad Ershad, President of Bangladesh; briefing for a meeting with the Piper Alpha Relatives Group.
1 file.

Feb 1989

Meetings. Briefing for and rough notes of a meeting with George Vassilou, President of Cyprus on attempts to reach a settlement in Cyprus. Also includes a briefing for and notes of a meeting with representatives of the Educational Institute of Scotland on the Self Governing Schools etc (Scotland) Bill.
1 file.

Mar 1989

Visits. Briefings and arrangements for visits and meetings including: a visit to Liverpool, Sheffield and Manchester; a dinner in honour of Mikhail Gorbachev; a meeting with Ronald Brown, Chairman of the American Democratic National Committee, with note on the effect of Jesse Jackson on the Democratic Party.
1 file.

Apr 1989

Meetings. Briefing for a meeting with Sheikh Hasina, President of the Awami League, Bangladesh.
1 file.

May 1989

Visits. Includes: briefing for and notes of a meeting with George Vassilou, President of Cyprus, on attempts to reach a settlement in Cyprus, with earlier material, including a meeting in March 1988; briefing for a meeting with Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan; briefing for Arts Council lunch.
1 file.

Jul 1989

Visit to Denmark and Sweden. Programmes and briefings, particularly on environmental issues.
1 file.

Sep 1989

Visit to Dublin. Includes: briefing papers; timetable; text of NK's speech and joint statement with Dick Spring [leader of the Irish Labour Party]; notes on transport links, the Irish Sea and an outline of party strategy on Irish unification; printed material on Ireland.
1 file.

Sep 1989

Visit to Motorfair. Briefing for NK's visit as patron of the Motability scheme [a voluntary organisation supplying vehicles to recipients of the Mobility Allowance, and campaigning for lead-free petrol].
1 file.

Oct 1989

Visits and meetings. Briefings and notes for visits including: a Poems and Pints evening, Risca [Gwent, Wales]; a Nehru Centenary dinner; visit to South Wales Switchgear Limited; a photo call with Yuri Lyubimov, director of the Taganka Theatre; meeting with Paul Keating, Federal Treasurer of Australia; memorial service for the Royal Marines; meeting with unions in an ambulance dispute; meeting with junior front-bench spokesmen; notes for meeting with Greville Janner and Seymour Reich, President of the B'nai B'rith Jewish welfare organisation; a meeting with Hector Oqueli [a leader of the Social Democrats in El Salvador].
1 file.

Nov 1989

Visit to Belfast. Includes: press statements by [Joseph] Kevin McNamara, Northern Ireland spokesman, on devolution and the Anglo-Irish Agreement; briefing notes; timetable; Amnesty International report on the shooting of IRA members in Gibraltar, 1988; some correspondence on Labour's policy on Northern Ireland.
1 file.

Dec 1989

Briefings for meetings. Includes: briefing for and rough notes of a meeting with Allan Roberts [environmental protection and development spokesman] and [Winifred] Ann Taylor [environment spokesman] on environmental policy; briefing for a meeting with Senator Daniel P Moynihan.
1 file.

Dec 1989

Notebooks of meetings: Berlin. Rough notes from a meeting with Gregor Gysi, leader of the East German Party of Democratic Socialism (SED-PDS), on German reunification.
1 file.

Dec 1989

Press releases and briefings on visits. Briefings for visits including: a pensioners' press conference and sheltered housing project, Islington South, and a visit to Ealing, [London], June 1989; women taxi drivers in Islington, Oct 1989; Nottingham and the East Midlands, including visits to GEC Plessey Telecommunications (GPT) and Boots and a meeting with local manufacturers, and Reading [Berkshire], Feb 1990; meeting with manufacturers, Cambridge, May 1990; Barnsley [Yorkshire], to open the Metrodome Leisure Centre, July 1990; Party Conference, Sept-Oct 1990, including a Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU) reception, a birthday dinner for Baroness Castle, Scots night (particularly relating to oil and gas policy), and a General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union (GMBATU) reception.
1 file.

Apr 1989-Jan 1991

Visits and meetings. Includes: reception for American members of a European Parliament/US Congress delegation; briefing for visit to Leicester to launch the Footext clock; meeting with competitors in the Commonwealth Games; lunch with Bernardo Sepulveda Amor, Mexican Ambassador to Britain.
1 file.

Jan 1990

Notebooks of meetings. Rough notes of a strategy meeting with the British Labour Group, National Executive Committee and Parliamentary party; rough notes on South Africa and the imminent release of Nelson Mandela.
1 file.

c Feb 1990

Visits and meetings. Includes: briefings for visit to the London Housing Unit exhibition, Hammersmith and Fulham sheltered housing scheme and a crime prevention initiative; briefing for a meeting with Poll Tax petitioners; briefing for and notes on a meeting with Deniz Baykal [Turkish Republican People Party's General Secretary].
1 file.

Mar 1990

Visit to Dublin. Briefings, correspondence etc on NK's visit to Ireland, including: notes of meetings with members of the Anglo-Irish division of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin; rough notes of meeting with Charles Haughey, Taoiseach; report by [Joseph] Kevin McNamara, Northern Ireland spokesman, on his visit in Feb 1990, and meetings with Haughey, Dick Spring, leader of the Irish Labour Party and Alan Dukes, leader of Fine Gael; briefings on Ireland's presidency of the European Community, the Inter-Governmental Conferences, the Anglo-Irish Agreement and the British/Irish Parliamentary Body. Also includes note for NK's visit in June 1990 and correspondence on possible legal claims following a heart attack suffered by NK's driver on the way back to Dublin airport, Sept 1989.
2 files.

Mar 1990

Notebooks of meetings, Dublin. Rough notes of NK's meetings with the Taoiseach of Ireland [Charles Haughey] and with Alan Dukes [leader of Fine Gael] on Ireland's presidency of the European Community, the political situation in Ireland, relations with the British Government and energy policy.
1 file.

Mar 1990

Visit to the West End of London. Briefing and arrangements for a visit to the Oxford Street Association and to the fashion house Coppernob on uniform business rates and also to contribute to the election campaign in Westminster.
1 file.

Apr 1990

Visits and meetings. Briefings and arrangements for visits and meetings including: visit to the British Regional Press Awards; a meeting with Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt, including rough notes of the meeting; a meeting with Franz Vranitzky, Chancellor of Austria; a lunch for Kazuo Chiba, Japanese Ambassador to Britain.
1 file.

May 1990

Visits. Briefings and arrangements for a visit to the Northern region, Tyneside and Sunderland, including the Swan Hunter shipyard, Tyneside and Woodhorn Colliery Museum and Blyth Valley civic centre [Northumberland]. Also includes rough notes of a meeting with the British Labour Group on the first anniversary of the European elections.
1 file.

Jun 1990

100

Visits. Briefings and arrangements for events including: a lunch with senior management at Prudential Corporation plc; a dinner with the Managing Director of GEC Plessey Telecommunications (GPT); the Catholic Institute for International Relations' 50th anniversary phone-in; a meeting with Alexander Dubcek.
1 file.

Jul 1990

101

Briefing for meeting with Commonwealth Secretary General, Emeka Anyaoku.
1 file.

Jul 1990

102

Visit to Washington [United States]. Includes: correspondence with individuals including Ronald Brown, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and Dan Quayle, Vice-President; rough notes of a meeting with Brent Scowcroft [National Security Advisor], ? Apr 1990 on subjects including NATO and South Africa; guest lists for various events; rough notes of and briefings for meetings with President George Bush, Lawrence Eagleburger, Deputy Secretary of State, Dick Cheney [Secretary of Defense] and Dan Quayle, particularly on East-West relations.
1 file.

Jul 1990

103

Visit to Washington [United States]. Includes: programme; correspondence on arrangements; timetables; text of speech on the European Single Market and aid needed for Eastern Europe.
1 file.

Jul 1990

104

Visit to Washington [United States]. Programme and briefings for visits in Washington by Glenys Kinnock, July 1990, particularly at UNICEF, the World Bank and Howard Community College, Maryland.
1 file.

Jun 1990-Jul 1990

105

Visit to Washington [United States]: press cuttings.
1 file.

Jul 1990

106

Briefings for meetings. Briefings for and notes on meetings with: Emeka Anyaoku, Commonwealth Secretary General; Friends of the Earth; Thabo Mbeki, African National Congress; Luiz Lula da Silva, Brazilian Workers Party; the Venezuelan Foreign Minister [Reinaldo Figueredo]; David Levy, Israeli Foreign Minister.
1 file.

Sep 1990

107

Visit to Cyprus. Includes: arrangements for visit; statement by NK on Labour's policy on Cyprus; biographical and background briefings; programme for visit; correspondence with individuals including Pauline Green and Dimitris Christofias, General Secretary of the Communist Party (AKEL). Also includes a copy of the Socialist International report on their visit to Cyprus, 1989.
1 file.

Oct 1990

108

Notebooks of meetings, Cyprus. Rough notes of meetings from NK's visit to Cyprus, with individuals including: the United Nations Special Representative Oscar Camilion; the Greek Cypriot President [Georghios Vassiliou]; Glavkos Clerides, President of the Democratic Rally Party; Spyros Kyprianou, President of the Democratic Party; Vassos Lyssarides, leader of the Socialist Party (EDEK); Dimitris Christofias [General Secretary of the Communist Party (AKEL)]; Archbishop Chrysostomos.
1 file.

Oct 1990

109

Visits and meetings. Papers from a meeting with Francesco Cossiga, President of Italy, and with Gianni de Michelis, Foreign Minister, with briefing on de Michelis and Italy's position on Europe, and notes of the meetings, particularly on Europe, the reunification of Germany, and the Gulf. Also includes material from an earlier meeting in July 1988, and timetables and briefing for a visit by Pierre Mauroy, First Secretary of the French Socialist Party.
1 file.

Oct 1990

110

Notebooks of meetings. Rough notes of meetings on the Inter-Governmental Conferences on economic and monetary union, with individuals including: Jean Pierre Cot [Chairman of the European Parliament Socialist Group]; Pierre Mauroy [First Secretary of the French Socialist Party]; Gianni de Michelis [Italian Foreign Minister]; Klaus Hansch [Vice-Chairman of the Socialist Group]; Julian Priestley [Secretary-General of the Socialist Group]; Felipe Gonzalez [Prime Minister of Spain].
1 file.

Oct 1990-Dec 1990

111

Notebooks of meetings, France. Rough notes of meetings with individuals including: Jean-Pierre Chevènement [Minister of Defence]; [?] Jean-Louis Bianco; Francois Mitterand [President of France]; Michel Rocard [Prime Minister].
1 file.

Nov 1990

112

Visits and meetings. Includes: briefing for and rough notes of a meeting with the Spanish Ambassador, Felipe de la Morena, particularly on Spain's political and economic situation and views on Europe; rough notes of a meeting with John Kerr [British Ambassador to the European Union] on Europe, particularly economic and monetary union and Margaret Thatcher's unsustainable views; briefing for and rough notes of a meeting with Kuldip Nayar, Indian High Commissioner, including briefings for an earlier meeting with Nayar (Mar 1990) and a meeting with Ramaswamy Venkataraman, President of India (Apr 1990).
1 file.

Nov 1990

113

Visits and meetings. Includes: briefing for a visit to Spain and meeting with Felipe Gonzalez, Prime Minister, including a briefing for a meeting with Felipe de la Morena, Spanish Ambassador, Nov 1990; arrangements and briefings for a visit to Brussels [Belgium] and meetings with Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission, Vasso Papandreou, [Carlo] Ripa di Meana, and Leon Brittan, European Commissioners, on subjects including environmental policy and financial regulation; correspondence on the presentation of a petition in support of the charter for the unemployed.
1 file.

Dec 1990

114

Visit to Northern Ireland. Briefings, correspondence and arrangements for NK's visit, including text of a speech by John Hume, leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) at his party's annual conference.
1 file.

Dec 1990

115

Visit to Northern Ireland: briefings. Includes a copy of Labour's policy document "Towards a United Ireland".
1 file.

Dec 1990

116

Visits and meetings. Briefings for meetings, including: note from Walid Joumblatt [President of the Libyan Progressive Socialist Party]; briefing for and rough notes of a meeting with Prince Hassan of Jordan; briefing for a meeting with German Riesco, Chilean Ambassador to Britain; briefing for a meeting with Janis Jurkans, Foreign Minister of Latvia, including notes on Lithuania.
1 file.

c Jan 1991

117

Visit to RAF Laarbruch, Germany. Programme and briefings for NK's visit, including a copy of the statement by Tom King, Secretary of State for Defence, on defence options for change (July 1990), with an extract from the debate on his statement, and an article by Martin O'Neill, principal defence spokesman, on Labour's defence review.
1 file.

Feb 1991

118

Visits and meetings. Briefings and arrangements for meetings, including: meeting with Joan Lerma, President of the Valencian Regional Government, including a general briefing on Spain; meeting with Wim Kok, Dutch Finance Minister, including correspondence with Baroness Ewart-Biggs, Ernest Ross, Lord Richard, Joyce Quin, Gerald Kaufman and David Clark on meeting him; meeting with Gro Harlem Brundtland, Prime Minister of Norway; lunch with Oyston Cable Communications Group; meeting with Zhelyu Zhelev, President of Bulgaria, including rough notes of the meeting.
1 file.

Feb 1991

119

Visits and meetings. Briefings and arrangements for visits and meetings, including: visit to New York [United States], including texts of speeches by John Brademas, President of New York University; visit to Australia [cancelled]; visit to Waltham Forest housing developments, London; visit to Liverpool for Eric Heffer's award of the freedom of the city; the launch of a biography of Mary Robinson, President of Ireland; a photocall with Vickers workers, including briefings on the replacement of the Chieftain tank.
1 file.

Mar 1991

120

Briefings for meetings with F W de Klerk and Nelson Mandela. Papers on South Africa, including: press statements for meetings with Nelson Mandela, Deputy President of the African National Congress and F W de Klerk, President of South Africa; background notes for an National Executive Committee discussion on South Africa; papers and cuttings on apartheid and human rights issues in South Africa.
3 files.

Apr 1991

121

Briefings for meetings with F W de Klerk and Nelson Mandela. Includes cuttings and a note of NK's meeting with de Klerk, President of South Africa.
1 file.

Apr 1991

122

Socialist Group industrial policy conference, Birmingham. Programme and arrangements for the conference, with the text of NK's speech.
1 file.

Apr 1991

123

Meeting with Patricio Aylwin, President of Chile. Programme and briefing for the meeting, including a previous briefing on meeting the Chilean Ambassador, German Riesco, in Jan 1991.
1 file.

Apr 1991

124

Visits and meetings. Briefings and arrangements for visits and meetings, including: meeting with midwives, Royal College of Midwives Trust, to mark the first International Day of the Midwife, including correspondence with Ruth Ashton, General Secretary of the Trust; a dinner at the Italian embassy; meeting with Felipe Gonzalez, Prime Minister of Spain, including a briefing on the current state of the European Intergovernmental conferences on economic and political union; visits to Bonn, Germany (May and June).
1 file.

May 1991-Jun 1991

125

Visits and meetings. Briefings and arrangements for visits and meetings, including: meeting with John Hume, Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), Northern Ireland, including a briefing on the current situation and copy of a speech by Kevin McNamara, Northern Ireland spokesman; Labour Party Irish Society reception; visit to Liverpool for Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio, including correspondence with Desmond Pitcher, Chief Executive of the Littlewoods Organisation (3), John Last, Chairman of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society (2) and Peter Mandelson.
1 file.

May 1991-Jun 1991

126

Visits and meetings. Briefings and arrangements for visits and meetings, including: meeting with Building Employers Federation; visit to the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) conference, Blackpool [Lancashire], including various resolutions, text of a speech by Ron Todd, General Secretary, on industrial legislation, a briefing on the Conference Arrangements Committee and a possible threat to the organisation of Conference and Labour's party presentation, and an interview with NK for the T&G Women bulletin; visit to the World Student Games, Sheffield [Yorkshire], including a letter from David Blunkett; programme for state visit by Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt; rough notes on meeting with James Bolger, Prime Minister of New Zealand, mainly on GATT and the Common Agricultural Policy.
1 file.

Jul 1991

127

Visit to Glasgow and Aberdeen, Scotland. Briefings and arrangements for visits to the Scottish Trades Union Congress in Glasgow, Foresterhill Hospital in Aberdeen and the Forties Delta oil rig. Includes general briefings on Scotland, particularly elections, the Poll Tax, education, the economy and constitutional issues, including copies of correspondence between Ian Lang, Secretary of State for Scotland, and Donald Dewar [Scottish affairs spokesman], correspondence with [Thomas] Murray Elder, General Secretary of the Scottish Labour Party on the party's position on the Gulf Crisis and documents on Labour's oil and gas policy.
2 files.

Aug 1991-Sep 1991

128

Visit to Dublin, Ireland. Briefings and arrangements for NK's visit, particularly a briefing on Dick Spring, Leader of the Irish Labour Party, and also including speech notes for NK.
1 file.

Oct 1991

129

Visits and meetings. Briefings and arrangements for visits and meetings, including: a visit to Goodyear Tyres, Wolverhampton; the launch of the Manchester airport rail link; a meeting with Arpad Goncz, President of Hungary, including rough notes of the meeting; a visit by Nursultan Nazarbaev, President of Kazakhstan, including rough notes of the meeting; a letter from King Hussein of Jordan on Jordan's position on the Gulf Crisis.
1 file.

c Oct 1991-c Nov 1991

130

Visits and meetings. Briefings and arrangements for visits and meetings, including: a meeting with Dick Cheney, American Secretary of Defense, on European defence, NATO and nuclear disarmament, including rough notes of the meeting; a meeting with Dan Quayle, Vice-President of the United States, on defence and the Common Agricultural Policy; a meeting with Boris Yeltsin, President of the Soviet Union, on overseas aid, defence and disarmament; a meeting with Boutros Boutros Ghali, Secretary-General of the United Nations, on UN peace-keeping, including rough notes of the meeting; meeting with Jeremy Beecham, Chairman of the Association of Metropolitan Authorities, on the Poll Tax, relations between the Authorities and a Labour Government and regional government, including rough notes of the meeting; a meeting with Keith Barron [energy spokesman] on the coal industry, particularly in the European Union, including notes from Barron's visit to Denmark to see combined heat and power schemes; a meeting with President Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania; a meeting with John Bruton, leader of Fine Gael, on Northern Ireland, including correspondence with Bruton, a copy of a letter from [Joseph] Kevin McNamara, Northern Ireland spokesman, on Labour's position towards the negotiations between the British and Irish Governments and the parties in Northern Ireland.
1 file.

Jan 1992

131

Visits and meetings. Briefings and arrangements for visits and meetings, including: a reception on housing policy, including a copy of a letter from NK to John Major, Prime Minister on the mortgage crisis; a meeting with President Alberto Fujimori of Peru; a dinner given by the Asian community for the Speaker of the House of Commons, [Bruce] Bernard Weatherill, including a letter from Donald Gray, Chaplain to the Speaker.
1 file.

Feb 1992

132

Meeting with Albert Reynolds. Briefings for a meeting with Reynolds, Taoiseach of Ireland, David Andrews, Irish Foreign Minister and Padraig Flynn, Irish Justice Minister. Includes notes on abortion, Reynolds's views on Northern Ireland, security, the Irish referendum on the Maastricht Treaty and British presidency of the European Union.
1 file.

Feb 1992

133

Visits and meetings. Briefings and arrangements for visits and meetings, including: meeting with John Hume, leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), Northern Ireland, including correspondence with James Molyneaux, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, on NK's statement on Labour's position on negotiations on the future or Northern Ireland, following his meeting with Irish leaders, Feb 1992 (see 19/2/132); dinner with Jewish Community leaders; retirement party for Ron Todd, General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU), including ideas for a tribute to Todd.
1 file.

Mar 1992

134

Visits and meetings. Briefings and arrangements for visits and meetings, including: meeting with Michael Moore, Prime Minister of New Zealand; opening of Keir Hardie centenary exhibition at the Passmore Edwards Museum, Newham [London], with speech notes for NK. Also includes correspondence with Peter Hain on Hain's decision not to vote with the party.
1 file.

May 1992

135

Visit to Northern Ireland. Briefings and arrangements for NK's visit, with notes on the inter-party talks between the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), and Unionists and on security.
1 file.

Jun 1992

136

Visit to the United States (cancelled). Correspondence on arrangements for NK's visit, with letters of apology on its cancellation.
1 file.

Mar 1993

137

Visit to Andersen Consulting. Programme and arrangements for NK's visit.
1 file.

Apr 1993

138

Visit to United States. Schedule and briefings for NK's visit, including source material for and annotated text of NK's Weinstock Memorial Lecture at Berkeley, "Beyond Free Trade to Fair Trade" on the new World Trade Organisation.
1 file.

Mar 1994

139

Visit to Norway. Briefings and arrangements for NK's visit, including rough notes and text for NK's speech on Norwegian membership of the European Union, a research paper on the Enlargement and the European Union (Accession) Bill and a Cabinet Office paper on the future of Europe.
1 file.

Sep 1994