From	Keith Briffa	Date	Tue Sep 17 17:38:34 1996
To	Mike Salmon
Subject	Re: shiyatov
Dear Stepan I have received the receipts. Thankyou. Unfortunately I have also heard that our request to COPERNICUS was not successfull. I am very disappointed about this. The letter I recieved said that the proposal " was not considered relevant" so you can imagine that I am seriously exploring what this is all about. I have just returned from a PEP3 meeting in Paris . I tried to emphasise how important the Russian work is and , of course , our collaboration. I am relly angry that our proposal was not considered by referees - just rejected by the committee. Thanks for the piece for the Web page - It is already on. It is now more important than ever that we publish some papers over the next few months on the different aspects of the network reconstructions and the long series. Have you considered my suggestion to think about a long,detailed paper on the Yamal work for submission to The Holocene? I am happy to help as much as possible with such an effort. I am glad you are safely home and I send my best wishes to you all. Keith