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VISIT OF THE PRIME MINISTER TO CHINA AND HONG KONG 1-6 SEPTEMBER 1991
OUTLINE PROGRAMME FOR THE PRIME MINISTER
(as at 29 August)
Sunday 1 September
ETD London Heathrow (Royal Suite)
0925
1500
ETA Moscow (Vnukovo II)
1510
1545
1700
1710
1730
1830
1845
Depart for Kremlin
Welcoming ceremony followed by talks with Gorbachev
Depart for wreath-laying
Wreath-laying at Novy Arbat, site of 20/21 August killings
Return to Embassy for Reception and talks with Baltick leaders
Depart Embassy for
Talks with Silaev, Chairman of the Committee to oversee the reform of the economy, and his deputies, Volsky, Yavlinsky and Lishkov (location uncertain at this stage)
1945
Depart for
2000
Talks with Yeltsin at the RSFSR Parliament Building (White House)
2115
Depart for
2130
Press Conference and interviews with Soviet and British Press at MFA Press Centre
2220
Depart MFA Press Centre for Embassy
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