Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 9 April 1986

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/8
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; PREM32/20, covering 1986, can be read here.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Wednesday 9 April 1986

0745

Meeting of Ministers - Libya: Foreign Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Secretary of State for Defence [Michael Heseltine], Sir Robert Armstrong, Mr. Mallaby, Sir D. Myers, Mr. Burton, CAS [Chief of Air Staff, Sir David Craig], Sir P. Cradock [Sir Percy Cradock], Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

0840

Depart No. 10

0845

Guard of Honour for President of Korea [Chun Doo-hwan] [FCO Quadrangle]

0900-1055

Talks with President of Korea [Chun Doo-hwan] + Foreign Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe] and Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

[1000]

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[Meeting of Ministers: Libya] [Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Secretary of State for Defence [George Younger], Chief of Air Staff [Sir David Craig], Sir D. Myers, Mr Burton, Sir Robert Armstrong, Christopher Mallaby, Sir Percy Cradock]

1100

Graham Turner + Mr. Ingham [Bernard Ingham]

1200

Drinks for MPs [Jack Aspinwall, Sir Nicholas Bonsor, William Cash, Robert Jones, Michael Mates, David Madel: [2/6/3/26 part 1 f52]] [+Michael Alison: see Alison engagement diary, THCR2/6/3/10]

Lunch in flat

1335

Meeting of Ministers [as above]

1450

Sir John Junor (personal)

1510

[1500]

Meeting of Ministers: BL

Secretary of State for Trade [Norman Tebbit], Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove]

1555

To House of Commons

1600

Lord President, Lord Brookeborough, Lord Moyola, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Mr. Powell [Charles Powell] [Northern Ireland] H/C

1730

Foreign Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe] and Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

[To 70 Whitehall]

1835

Look in at Efficiency Unit Reception Conference Room C Cabinet Office + Mr. Addison [Mark Addison]

Return to House of Commons

1915