Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 23 November 1983

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/5
Editorial comments:	Taken from a typed version of the appointment diary prepared in the Garden Room following MT's resignation but before 1992. The handwritten original has also been studied and material from that source has sometimes been added in, with explicit notes to that effect. The handwritten volumes are now being deposited at TNA in the series PREM32; PREM32/17 is the manuscript version of the diary, PREM32/5 the typed one.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Wednesday 23 November 1983

[(Cancel FCS [Sir Geoffrey Howe] & Ch/ Ex [Nigel Lawson])]

0730

Working breakfast with Mr. Hawke - Residence

0857

Depart for Vigyan Bhavan +DT

0901

Arrive

0945

Formal opening of CHOGM [see THCR 1/10/64 f111 for list of attendees]

1100

Executive Session

1230-1320

Reception by Commonwealth Secretary-General [Sonny Ramphal] - Ceremonial Lounge, Vigyan Bhavan

1330

Lunch at Residence [Sir Geoffrey Howe, Michael Alison, Sir Robert Armstrong, Sir Antony Acland, Robin Butler, John Coles, Brian Falls, Tessa Gaisman] [THCR 1/10/64 f193]

1500

Executive Session

1720

Depart for Rashtrapati Bhavan

1730

Reception by President of India for Heads of Delegation

1900

Hair - Residence

2000

The Queen's CHOGM Banquet at Hyderabad House

MT Engagement Diary