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Assistant Heads of all Geographical Departments

13 NOV 1990

MINISTERIAL VISITS SCHEDULE: NOVEMBER 1990

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1. Please find attacked the schedule of Ministerial visits

to/from countries in your geographical area. It is correctedk

to 31 October on information received in Protocol

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Department. I should be grateful if you would arrange for To me on desk officers to bring the schedule up to date and return it by 22 October for inclusion in the November 1990 schedule. I regret that, due to printing deadlines, any returns received after this date cannot be included in the following schedule. Visits completed before 1 October need not be included.

in. Please ensure that amendments are legible (ie typed or in block capitals) and that all additional entries are set out in alphabetical order of country.

2.

All inward and outward visits by Heads of Government and Ministers, outward visits by the Lord Mayor of London, the Speaker of the House of Commons and inward visits by members of foreign Royal Families should be included. (Royal visits overseas will be dealt with by Protocol Department). Firm visits should be listed irrespective of timescales but agreed visits should be listed up to six months ahead. The status of the visit should be recorded under one of the following categories.

(i) Agreed agreed in principle by both the host and the visitor; and

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(ii) Firm date fixed.

3. The purpose of this visit should be recorded in the column headed Type of Visit'. This is intended primarily to show in a word (or two) the nature of the visit, in one of the

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State Visit

Guest of Government

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Parliamentary

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For security reasons, visits by the Secretary of State for Defence should not be shown on this schedule.

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