Soviet-British trade talks

Title

Soviet-British trade talks

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

7 Apr 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:02:56

Description

Michael O’Neill reports on a meeting between Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev and CBI chiefs, and on talks on the state of Soviet trade. Lord Young talks about what was discussed, how some sales products have been decided upon and how the Soviets could improve their tourist industry. Sir Trevor Holdsworth talks about the importance of trade. Ian McLean, GPT, talks about telephones being installed to allow the Soviets to phone out, and Lord Weinstock talks about the phone boxes.

Contributors

David Young; Michael O’Neill; Arnold Weinstock; Ian McLean; Trevor Holdsworth

Keywords

Industry; UK; USSR; CBI; International relations; Tourism; International trade; Meetings; Balance of trade; Telephone engineering; GPT

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