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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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