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PDF 89 Jul 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("Meeting with Rajiv Gandhi") [Nehru centenary, international issues, bilateral relations] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with President of Uruguay") [help with Falklands, new Argentine president] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("French Bicentenary: The Prime Minister's Bilateral Meeting with the President of Mexico: 1530-1600, 13 July") [Mexico's relations with creditor banks] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with President of Mexico") ["Our main current interest is the negotiation of a bilateral drugs agreement"] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with President of Egypt") [Arab/Israel, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, Egyptian economy] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with Japanese Prime Minister") [Uno "is in deep political trouble and may well not survive"] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("Paris Economic Summit: Foreign Policy Issues") [arrangements, declarations, Middle East, China, East/West] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 11 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("French Bicentenary: 13-14 July, Paris") [bilateral meetings, arrangements for ceremonies, Economic Summit] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 11 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Overseas Development Minister PS to Charles Powell (mid-income countries) [aid obligations] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: PS Chancellor minute for Treasury ('RPI') [Lawson asks for note of forecast RPI increases due to water, electricity privatisation and community charge] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 89 Jul 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lawson letter to Chairman of 1922 Committee (misconceptions about safety net) [mitigates features inherent in the community charge] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 89 Jul 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chief Secretary minute to Chancellor ("Safety Net") [Gummer thinks present package unsaleable and hopes to force further Treasury concessions; DOE ministers want announcement before recess; Lawson: Ridley "not seeking to reopen what has been agreed"] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 89 Jul 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Walters minute for Powell ("A Message from Menem") [very anxious to resume normal relations] [declassified 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Major memorandum ("Public Expenditure Cabinet: Line to Take") [objective to maintain downward trend in spending-GDP ratio] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray ("Public Expenditure Cabinet: Line to Take") [expenditure should take a declining share of national income] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Paul Gray briefing for MT ("Cabinet Discussion on Public Expenditure") [sandwich critical voices between supporters] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Integrated Pollution Control") [proposed new statutory regulatory framework] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Global Climate Change") [latest position on a climate change convention] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: John Major minute to David Young ("Global Climate: ERS-2") [how cost of participation will be met] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Alan Walters minute to No.10 ("UK Position on an International Climate Fund") [proposed additional aid] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Alan Walters minute to Paul Gray ("Rainforest Protection - The Goldsmith Idea and an Alternative Proposal") [pay-for-forests proposal] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Overseas Development Administration minute to Dominic Morris ("UK Position on an International Climate Fund") [proposals for funds to help developing countries] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Younger PS minute to Charles Powell ("Aldergrove Infantry Battalion") [need to ensure changes are not seen as a withdrawal and avoid encouraging attacks against married quarters] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Walters minute to Paul Gray ("Rainforest protection - the Goldsmith proposal") ["that the industrialised countries pay Brazil etc for the service of maintaining their forests"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Walters note to MT (UK participation in the exchange rate arrangements of the European Monetary System) [letter from Willem Buiter to "The Times"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Walters minute to No.10 ("Rainforest protection - the Goldsmith proposal") ["that the industrialised countries pay Brazil for the maintaining of their forests"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Perks minute ("Your Interviews with the French Media") [extensive coverage of Le Monde interview] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Alan Walters minute for Gray ("Rainforest Protection - the Goldsmith idea and an alternative proposal") [proposal to set up a FORESAVE body; "this is an occasion where Britain could clearly take the initiative and lead the OECD countries" ] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 briefing ("Programme for French Bicentenary and Economic Summit") [as at 12 July, plus earlier versions] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Washington telegram 1874 to FCO (2205Z) ("Vietnamese Boat People in Hong Kong") [how to handle the issue at bilaterals with Bush and Baker] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("Meeting with Rajiv Gandhi") [forestry projects, Indian airports] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("Meeting with Rajiv Gandhi") [forestry projects, Indian airports] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Paris Economic Summit: Political Texts") [human rights, East/West, China/Hong Kong, Arab/Israel] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with President Bush") [Poland and Hungary, North/South dialogue, Cyprus, China/Hong Kong, Middle East, arms control, South Africa] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's Meeting with President Bush in Paris: Briefing on Cyprus") ["The US and UK have common objectives in Cyprus"] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("Poland/Hungary at the Paris Summit") [coordination of policy, Bush's initiative] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Economic Summit") ["the French want to make debt and the environment the main Summit issues"] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chief Secretary ("Local Authority Current Settlement: Wales") [Walker ready to settle on lines sought by Treasury, treating Wales same as Scotland] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chief Secretary ("Local Authority Current Settlement: England") [draft statement; Lawson unhappy with it] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Major PS note to No.10 (briefing on new planning total) [press briefing attached] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Press Summary for 8-11 July") [Menem's inauguration speech; economic plan] [declassified 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Press Summary for 12 July") [economy; internal situation; military; UK/Argentina/Falklands] [declassified 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Major minute to John Moore ("State Pensions") [average real value of basic pension] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of full Cabinet - CC(89) 25th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, the Future of the Legal Profession, Economic Prospects and the Public Expenditure Survey 1989) [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) China: CIA memorandum ("China: Trying To Calm Troubled Waters in Hong Kong") [Chinese PR campaign in HK, but local doubts will persist] [declassified 1998]
PDF 89 Jul 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Malcolm Rifkind minute to MT ("Gaelic Television Services") [subsidising Welsh and Gaelic broadcasting] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Nicholas Ridley minute to John Major (Climate Change) [PES funding for research] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Lennox-Boyd conversation record (1922 Committee) [Community Charge; Turbull note "They are not accepting basic premise"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Jul 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO telegram to UKE Paris ("Prime Minister's Breakfast meeting with Rajiv Gandhi: 14 July") [BAE bid, power station] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-Salinas) [Mexican economy] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-Sanguinetti) [Uruguay economy, situation in the South Atlantic] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: G7 draft statements (Paris Summit) [human rights, China, East/West relations] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lamont PS minute to Paul Gray ("Cash Limits for 1988-89") [publication of White Paper] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Cold War, China: White House memcon (Bush-Mitterrand) [Mitterrand: "Gorbachev detested the Chinese course and felt threatened by it"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 89 Jul 14 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Paul Gray minute to MT ("IBA: Experiment and Development Department") [privatisation proposals] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 14 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn saving telegram 9 to FCO ("FRG Economy") [draft budget, latest figures] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to Charles Powell ("Paris Economic Summit: Draft Political Declarations") [paragraphs on Hong Kong, nuclear deterrence] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to Charles Powell ("Political Texts") [terrorism, China, human rights, East/West relations] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-Rajiv Gandhi) [Hong Kong, Commonwealth, Antarctica, bilateral relations, commercial relations] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-Mubarak) [Arab-Israel, Lebanon, Sudan, Libya] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT - Japanese PM Sosuke Uno) [Tokyo Stock Exchange, Rover, North/South Summit, China] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO record of conversation (Major-Baker) [China, East/West relations, Poland/Hungary, draft economic declaration] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: G7 final draft declarations (Paris Summit) [China, terrorism, human rights, East/West relations] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 14 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Mark Lennox-Boyd minute to MT (1922 Committee) [fears that next election could be lost if issue not handled correctly] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chaplin minute for Chief Secretary ("Backbench briefing for Community Charge Statement") [draft briefing before Ridley Commons statement; concern at delay till end of session] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 89 Jul 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Intervention, Sterilisation and Funding") [Walters accepts intervention WAS sterilised; real problem was that interest rates were kept too low in order to keep sterling at DM3] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("UK/Argentina: Press Coverage") [declassified 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute for Powell ("Argentina: Messages") [Menem's replies to messages of congratulations published in the Argentine press] [declassified 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) China, etc: White House memcon (MT-President Bush) [Poland; China; Middle East] [partially declassified 2009]
PDF 89 Jul 15 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: G7 statement ("Declaration on Human Rights") ["We reaffirm our commitment to freedom, democratic principles and human rights"] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 15 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: G7 statement ("Declaration on Terrorism") ["We remain resolutely opposed to terrorism in all its forms"] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 15 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute for Powell ("Falkland Islands: Relations with Argentina") [declassified 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 16 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to Major PS ("Anglo French Relations") [Mitterrand "felt that the press were trying to create artificial differenes between Britain and France"] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 16 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: G7 statement ("Declaration on China") [condemnation of "violent repression in China in defiance of human rights"] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 16 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: G7 statement ("Declaration on East-West relations") ["We hope that freedom will be broadened and democracy strengthened"] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 16 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: G7 documents ("The 40 Conclusions of the Summit of the Arch") [economy, environment, drugs] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 16 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to Alan Walters ("Intervention and Sterilisation") [agrees with Walters' main conclusion that interest rates were too low] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 17 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Paul Gray minute to Young PS ("Independent Broadcasting Engineering and R&D") [R&D to be carried out within the private sector] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 17 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: Charles Powell minute to Hurd PS ("Call on the Prime Minister by the Premier of Western Australia") [proposed meeting] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell note to MT (message from General Jaruzelski: Poland's requirements for economic help) [cover note only] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram 2367 to FCO (1920Z) ("Foreign Affairs Council: 17 July 1989") ["Aid for Poland and Hungary"] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 17 Mo Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) French Revolution: MT letter to the Duchesse de Gramont (thanks) ["I very much appreciate your support"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Jul 17 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) French Revolution: Charles Powell minute for MT (draft statement on Paris G7) [have not mentioned bicentennial celebrations "to avoid hoots"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Jul 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Guise minute for Gray ("Nuclear Power") ["such a liability on the balance sheet of National Power would make it insolvent before it is floated"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT message to President Mitterrand (Paris Summit) [environment, drugs, IRA] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("1990/91 local authority grant settlement for England") [announcement] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 17 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 note to MT (Sir Emmanuel Kaye) [inheritance tax, CGT treatment of minority holdings in unquoted companies] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Alan Walters minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Intervention and Sterilisation - 1987-1988") ["I remain convinced that unsterilised intervention did contribute to monetary growth in 1987-88"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Alan Walters minute to Paul Gray ("Intervention and Sterilisation - 1987-1988") ["It is the persistence in pegging the exchange rate which is the proximate cause of the monetary expansion"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: Patten PS minute to Dominic Morris (OECD report) [national figures] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT statement (Fair Employment Act) ["determination to ensure that everyone in Northern Ireland enjoys the full benefits of citizenship, free of discrimination"] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Paris minute to Nigel Wicks ("Summit of the Poorest Countries") [unofficial meeting] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Local Government and Housing Bill: Scottish Community Charge Provisions") [formula valued industries] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [Commonwealth Secretary General; Poland/Hungary; Argentina; Vietnamese Boat People; Afghanistan] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 89 Jul 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 note to MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor: 19 July") [markets; County NatWest] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Paul Gray minute to Lamont PS ("Correspondence from Sir Emmanuel Kaye") [inheritance tax, CGT treatment of minority holdings in unquoted companies] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKHC Singapore to FCO ("Call on Lee Kuan Yew. Situation in Hong Kong/China") [recent events "a disaster for China"; sceptical collective leadership can be restored; Zhao Ziyang's miscalculations] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Kenneth Baker (Schools Broadcasts) [provision of programmes by independent TV sector] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Ridley PS minute to Charles Powell (Clean Air) [Bush's proposals "a welcome step forward in environmental protection"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 19 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Local Government and Housing Bill: Exemptions from the Community Charge") [provision for school-age foster children] [released Dec 2016]

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