Soviet Union: Exchanges of British and Soviet Parliamentary Delegations

A file containing documents concerning a visit to the Soviet Union by a British parliamentary delegation in April 1977. Subjects covered in the file include the success of the visit; a meeting between the delegation and the Soviet president, Nikolai Podgornyi; the absence of awkward exchanges over dissidents or human rights; and the extensive coverage of the visit in the Soviet media. Documents in the file include records of the delegation's meetings with Podgornyi and members of the Supreme Soviet; an address by the Foreign Office minister Goronwy Roberts to the Anglo-Soviet Parliamentary Group; and a list of human rights cases presented to Soviet politicians by a member of the British delegation. Other subjects discussed in the file include a visit to Moscow by the president of the Inter-Parliamentary Union; and the sixty-fourth Inter-Parliamentary Conference, held in Sofia in September 1977.