Private visits from the UK to the Gulf

This file concerns the visits of politicians, officials and other notable figures from the UK to the Gulf. It contains correspondence on the visits of:

• Lord Mayor of London Sir Alan Traill to the UAE
• Sir Michael Weir to the UAE
• Chairman of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Peter Temple-Morris MP to Kuwait at the invitation of the National Assembly Speaker Mohammad Yusef Al Adasani
• Francis Noel-Baker MP to Abu Dhabi
• Peter Bull and Richard Langley of the Bank of England for a banking supervision tour
• Dr W Rizk and A M McKay of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers to the UAE and Egypt
• Members of the British Invisible Exports Council to Kuwait and Jordan, as part of a City of London Mission
• Edward Heath to the UAE
• Dr E B Bates to the UAE to investigate the possibilities for the use of computers in schools
• P B Edgley of the Bank of England to Bahrain, the Yemen Arab Republic, Egypt and Jordan
• Officer from the British Veterinary Service to Kuwait

The file also contains:

• Proposal for Kuwaiti Ministry of the Interior and police officials to visit the Metropolitan Police in London
• Visit of the UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar to the Gulf
• Papers on the Middle East produced by the International Democrat Union and correspondence and a report on a fact-finding mission
• Enquiry as to which British companies are participating in the European Commission trade mission to the Gulf
• Notification that the chairman of the British Council is cancelling his Gulf tour due to illness
• Suggestion for the Speaker of the House of Commons to visit Kuwait