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RECORD OF THE MEETING WITH THE ROYAL SOCIETY, HELD AT THE SOCIETY ON 25 FEBRUARY 1993, FROM 11.30am
Present
FCO
Royal Society
Mr Lennox-Boyd
Mr Bone
Mr Bennett, Chief Natural Resources Adviser, ODA Mr Elam, Head, CRD
Mrs Leslie, Head, ESED
Mr Moore, APS/Mr Lennox-Boyd
Mr Brummell, ESED
Sir Michael-Atiyah, President
Dr Anne McLaren DBE, Foreign Secretary
Sir Francis Graham-Smith, Physical Secretary Professor John Horlock, Treasurer
Dr Peter Warren, Executive Secretary
Dr Terry Garrett, Assistant Secretary
(International Affairs)
Dr
CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION (FSU)
1. Sir Michael Atiyah welcomed the FCO delegation to the Royal Society, and said that the Society was grateful for the help provided by the FCO and other government departments in support of its activities in Central and Eastern Europe and the FSU. McLaren said that she was grateful for FCO financial support for the jointly-funded Post-doctoral Fellowship Programme in Hungary,
Poland and Czechoslovakia. The calibre of successful candidates
for these Fellowships was extremely high. The scheme would be extended to Bulgaria this year, with perhaps three or four Fellowships. The Society was grateful too for financial support from the OST and FCO towards some of the many programmes operated by the Society with the newly independent states of the FSU. These programmes included the Kapitza Fellowships, which were short-duration schemes pitched at very senior FSU scientists, who were invited to spend up to three months in the UK. Joint projects between research groups in the two countries were becoming increasingly popular under these projects, as well as visits, the Royal Society provided some funding for minor
equipment and consumables. The Society also had a scheme for
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