Soviet Union: Energy in Soviet Union: Proposed Anglo-Soviet Energy Symposium

A file containing documents relating to energy supply in the Soviet Union. Subjects covered in the file include predictions that the Soviet Union would have to start importing oil, thereby spending foreign currency; the prospect of a sharp decline in Soviet growth and productivity, despite the country's large reserves of coal, oil, and other natural resources; and a Soviet proposal for an Anglo-Soviet energy symposium. Other subjects discussed in the file include a cooling of Anglo-Soviet relations following the trials of prominent dissidents; French estimates of Soviet and Eastern European uranium reserves; Soviet plans to extract uranium from phosphates imported from Morocco; Soviet interest in the United Kingdom's emergence as a major oil producer; and British efforts to improve export prospects and to draw the Soviet Union into serious discussion of the global energy situation.