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- 26 February 1979 – 29 April 1979 (Creation)
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Contents list on the inside front cover reads:
(1) Queen’s Gulf tour
(2) Britain’s EEC contribution
(3) EEC Summit, Paris
(4) Murder of British Ambassador to Holland
(5) CAP / EEC budget
There are also notes about negotiations between America and Russia which led to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II (SALT II) treaty, signed by U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in Vienna on 18 June 1979
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Queen Elizabeth II’s 1979 Gulf tour was a historic three-week state visit to Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, and Oman, marking the first time a British sovereign and female head of state toured the region.
British Ambassador to the Netherlands Sir Richard Sykes and his 19-year-old Dutch footman, Karel Straub, were assassinated by IRA on 22 March 1979.