Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 17 September 1980

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/2
Editorial comments:	Taken from a typed version of the appointment diary prepared in the Garden Room at some point following MT’s resignation. The original remained in the custody of the Cabinet Office. Material has been added to this entry from the handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary, accessed at the Cabinet Office prior to transfer to TNA. The full text of that volume can be accessed here.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Wednesday 17 September 1980

0850

Neil Marten

0900

E [Willie Whitelaw, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Peter Walker, Michael Heseltine, Jim Prior, Sir Keith Joseph, David Howell, Lord Carrington, Lord Soames, John Nott, John Biffen]

1100

Meeting with Chancellor Kreisky [Coming straight from airport]

1215

Meeting of Ministers re Bowaters [S of S Industry (Sir Keith Joseph), J. Wiggin, Scottish Office, M. Roberts]

1300

Lunch in flat

1430

Greece and Yugoslavia briefing meeting [Mr (Ewen) Fergusson, Mr Daunt]

1500

Paris briefing meeting [FCS (Lord Carrington), Sir M. Palliser, Sir R. Hibbert (Ambassador to France), RTA (Robert Armstrong)]

1600

Meeting of Ministers and officials for Paris briefing [Listed in D. Wright minute of 10/1X]

1730

Dr. van Zyl Slabbert: South African Leader of the Opposition

1800

[Syrian ambassador - farewell call]

1915

Warren Christopher and Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Lord Carrington] [NB PM’s diary only]

MT Engagement Diary