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Wednesday 25 January

10.30 am

Eastern Europe

economic, domestic and international

Professor Wlodzimierz Brus (Wolfson College, Oxford) Michael C Kaser (St Antony's College, Oxford and Chairman British Association of Soviet and East European Studies) Mr Alan Smith (School of Slavonic and East Europe an Studies, University of London)

4.15 pm

Economic and trade links with the Soviet Union

Officials from the Department of Trade and Industry.

Wednesday 1 February

British Policy towards the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

At 10.15 am: Sir Bryan Cartledge, formerly British Ambassador to USSR

At about 11 am: Sir Curtis Keeble, formerly British Ambassador to USSR.

4.15 pm

Recent Developments in Arms Control Negotiations and related security issues.

Officials from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Ministry of Defence

Wednesday 8 February

10.30 am

Sir Geoffrey Howe QC MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.

Following these evidence sessions, the Committee will prepare and agree a Report on Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, which it intends to publish in Spring 1989.

B. FIRST SPECIAL REPORT: DEVELOPMENTS IN THE HORN OF AFRICA

The Foreign Affairs Committee issued its First Special Report (HC (1988-89) 63) on 12 January 1989. The Special Report publishes a memorandum from the Overseas Development Administration which updates the Government's Observations on the Committee's Report on Famine in the Horn of Africa. (HC (1987-88) 297).

C. SECOND SPECIAL REPORT: INFORMAL MEETINGS UNDERTAKEN BY THE COMMITTEE IN SESSION 1987-88

The Foreign Affairs Committee will publish its Second Special Report (HC (1988-89) 21) on 26 January 1989.

There will be no confidential, pre-publication copies.

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