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Info only 85 Nov 21 Th Chronology Major [Chronology] NATO Summit in Brussels
Text 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Tax Amnesty") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Governor-General of Canada") [arrangements for visit] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Falklands at the UN: Call on the Prime Minister by the New Zealand High Commissioner") [Lange considering a change in the NZ vote] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("New Zealand High Commissioner's Call on the Prime Minister on 22 November") [American approach to NZ anti-nuclear legislation] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Jopling letter to MT (Conservation Lunch on 25 November) [reminds MT of relevant paper he recently submitted, and offers to nominate invitees with alternative viewpoints to those already due to attend] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Peter Brooke minute to MT ("1986 Community Budget") ["Strategy for Budget Council, 26-7 November": options for curbing proposed increase in expenditure] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Norgrove minute to MT ("Gas Privatisation") [regulatory regime for gas following privatisation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKMIS Geneva telegram 428 to FCO (1400Z) ("US/Soviet Summit: Joint Statement") [text] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKMIS Geneva telegram 429 to FCO (1353Z) ("US/Soviet Summit: Gorbachev Press Conference ") [summary of Gorbachev's remarks] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 1122 to FCO (1655Z) ("Geneva Summit: Initial German Reactions") [government & political party reactions to US/Soviet summit outcomes] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKDel NATO record of conversation (1937Z) (MT, Reagan, Wilfried Martens, Kohl, Willoch, Mulroney, Craxi, Özal, Schlüter, Cavaco Silva, Lubbers, Santer, Geoffrey Howe, George Shultz, Ordóñez, Dumas, Charalambopoulos, Hermansson, Carrington) ["Reagan/Gorbachev Meeting, Geneva, 19-20 November: President Reagan's Briefing of North Atlantic Council, 21 November"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO telegram 185 to UKDel NATO (1245Z) ("US/Soviet Summit: Joint Statement") [Shultz/Shevardnadze summary of outcomes] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO telegram 186 to UKDel NATO (1245Z) ("US/Soviet Summit: Initial Views on Joint Statement") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO News Department minute to Howe PS ("Geneva Summit: Gorbachev's Press Conference") [summary of main points] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("US/Soviet Summit: update on Briefing for NAC") [initial impressions of the outcomes; advice on line to take for media; transcript of MT press conference attached] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO minute to No.10 ("Spanish TV Interview by the Prime Minister") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO briefing for MT ("Category 1 visit by Johannes Rau: 21-22 November) [East/West relations; defence; arms control] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Dail Debate") [summary] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Dail Debate") [Haughey's position] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (Anglo-Irish Agreement and its repercussions: co-operation with the security forces; power-sharing) [Tom King, John Hume MP] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to Northern Ireland Office (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [revisions to draft MT Parliamentary Debate speech] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Howe, Tom King, Biffen, Hurd, Wakeham) ["Northern Ireland": Anglo-Irish Agreement: consulting with the Unionists] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: King PS letter to Whitelaw PS (Anglo-Irish Agreement: Debate in Parliament: draft speech for the Lord President) ["As you know, events are moving rapidly, and we may well advise the Lord President to amend the speech before it is made"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office briefing for MT (meeting with John Cushnahan, Leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) [concerns about Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Treasury briefing for MT ("NICG dinner with Prime Minister, 21 November 85") [Nationalised Industries Chairmen's Group: board appointments] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Meeting with nationalised industry Chairmen") [NICG Dinner: key points; "The main villians of the piece have been Coal, Rail, Cars and Steel... Jobs have been lost at an alarming rate"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT ("Nationalised Industries Chairmen's Group Dinner") [guest list and topics of conversation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute: Policy Unit to PS ("Patrick Minford's views on the EMS") [main points & press notice from lecture given by University of Liverpool Professor of Economics] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands at the UNGA") [MT's draft message to Chancellor Kohl] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe telegram to UKE Paris ("Falklands at UNGA: French Vote") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 1110 to FCO (1830Z) ("Falklands at UNGA 40") ["the Argentine draft has been favourably received almost universally"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John MacGregor minute to Nicholas Edwards ("Local Authority Current and Capital Expenditure: Scotland and Wales") [difficulties with requests for compensation for English overspending] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John MacGregor minute to Kenneth Baker ("New Towns' Receipts") [modest increase] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group") [Ambassador Moberly, Pik Botha: record of conversation: "no way in which the... [South African government] could agree to be lectured"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Tom King letter to MacGregor ("Social Security Reforms: Northern Ireland") ["I understand the justification for the... proposal [that housing benefit claimants make 20% contribution to local rates] was the desire to bring home to electors the need to maintain some control over the expenditure of local councils... [but] this chain of responsibility does not exist in Northern Ireland"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 33rd (Parliamentary Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [televising Commons] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Norgrove note for MT (“Junk Bonds”) [Griffiths & Bank of England notes also] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Terrorism: Hurd PS minute to Wicks (counter-terrorist exercise) [“a simulated take-over of an oil installation in the North Sea”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Maldives President Gayoom message to MT (medical equipment for Male Hospital) [asks government to reconsider decision] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Home Office news release (“Cars should be more thief-proof”) [“Reports calls on manufacturers to “design out” crime”] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan report to meeting of NATO Leaders (Geneva Summit) [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 21 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Press Conference on Geneva Summit
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