Briefings and arrangements for visits and meetings, including: a meeting with Dick Cheney, American Secretary of Defense, on European defence, NATO and nuclear disarmament, including rough notes of the meeting; a meeting with Dan Quayle, Vice-President of the United States, on defence and the Common Agricultural Policy; a meeting with Boris Yeltsin, President of the Soviet Union, on overseas aid, defence and disarmament; a meeting with Boutros Boutros Ghali, Secretary-General of the United Nations, on UN peace-keeping, including rough notes of the meeting; meeting with Jeremy Beecham, Chairman of the Association of Metropolitan Authorities, on the Poll Tax, relations between the Authorities and a Labour Government and regional government, including rough notes of the meeting; a meeting with Keith Barron [energy spokesman] on the coal industry, particularly in the European Union, including notes from Barron’s visit to Denmark to see combined heat and power schemes; a meeting with President Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania; a meeting with John Bruton, leader of Fine Gael, on Northern Ireland, including correspondence with Bruton, a copy of a letter from [Joseph] Kevin McNamara, Northern Ireland spokesman, on Labour’s position towards the negotiations between the British and Irish Governments and the parties in Northern Ireland.