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1980 Dec 23 - 1981 Feb 13
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/552
Netherlands (Prime Minister's visit to The Hague, February 1981; meeting with Prime Minister, Dries van Agt)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 92
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Date Value Title
80 Dec 23 Tu Major Netherlands: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister's Visit”) [whole day programme so Dutch taking it seriously, but planning at "a very early stage"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 19 Mo Major Netherlands: Armstrong minute for No.10 (“Prime Minister's Visit to The Hague, 6 February”) [proposed arrangements for briefing; UK & Dutch objectives; Dutch economic difficulties] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 23 Fr Major Netherlands: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister's Visit”) [Ambassador's talk with Van Agt] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 27 Tu Major Netherlands: FCO letter to No.10 (“The Prime Minister's Visit to The Hague”) [Carrington advises not to discuss succession to Luns as NATO Sec-Gen] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 3 Tu Major Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Dutch Ambassador to London, Robbert Fack) [MT's visit to the Netherlands] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 3 Tu Major Netherlands: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister's Visit to the Netherlands”) ["current mood … dissension and uncertainty"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 4 We Major Netherlands: Treasury letter to No.10 (“The Prime Minister's Visit to The Hague on Friday, 6 February”) [reminder of UK achievements in fighting inflation] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 5 Th Major Netherlands: No.10 minute for MT (“Visit to The Hague”) [further briefing - 1980 abidcation of Queen Juliana in favour of Beatrix; draft remarks for lunch; guests] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 5 Th Major Netherlands: FCO letter to No.10 (“The Prime Minister's Visit to The Hague, 6 February: Enhanced Radiation Warheads”) [further briefing; also on steel] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr Major Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Van Agt of the Netherlands) [restricted session: deployment of nuclear weapons systems, EC Budget, agricultural prices, Common Fisheries policy, Afghanistan, cost of European Institutions] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr Major Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Van Agt of the Netherlands) [plenary session: EC Budget, agricultural prices, North-South relations, aid, Japan, relations with the US, South Africa, Middle East, oil] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr Major Netherlands: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO (“Mrs Thatcher's Visit to the Netherlands”) [Dutch stressed British had made great efforts to reach (?budget) settlement] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 12 Th Major Netherlands/EC: Armstrong minute to MT ("Community Affairs") [MT to feed back on meeting with Prime Minister Van Agt of the Netherlands] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 13 Fr Major Netherlands: HMA The Hague despatch to FCO (“Visit to the Netherlands by the Prime Minister on 6 February 1981”) ["short working visit … had the intended effect"] [declassified 2011]