Yugoslavia: Visit of the Prince of Wales to Yugoslavia, October 1978

A file of documents concerning a visit by the Prince of Wales to Yugoslavia. Subjects discussed in the file include the timing of the visit; press and travel arrangements for the visit; the programme of the visit, including the organisation of a trip to the capital of a Yugoslav republic; the decision that the head of the Foreign Office's Eastern European and Soviet Department, Kenneth Scott, should accompany the prince; the aims of the visit, which included maintaining high-level official contacts with Yugoslavia and reinforcing British commercial and military interests in Yugoslavia; and other proposed international visits to be made by the Prince of Wales. Other subjects discussed in the file include the internal political and economic situation in Yugoslavia; the activity of the non-aligned movement; improvements in Chinese-Yugoslav relations; the cooling of Soviet-Yugoslav relations; and difficulties in Bulgarian-Yugoslav relations over the Macedonian minority in Bulgaria.