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PREM19/724
Economic policy (G7 Summit - Versailles) (Part 8)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Secret
Page count: 213

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Date Value Title
82 Jan 29 Fr Major G7: MT letter to President Reagan (Allied response to the repression in Poland) [“deep concern… divisions within the alliance… could advance Soviet interests”] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 5 Mo Major Cold War: MT letter to Reagan (East-West economic relations) [sanctions against USSR potentially affecting UK companies] [released 2013]
82 May 9 Su Major G7: UKE Washington telegram 1683 to FCO (2210Z) (“President Reagan on East-West relations and nuclear weapons”) [“future relations with the Soviet Union”] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 3 Th Major G7: Ingham note to MT (“Reagan Talks tomorrow”) [“it will be most important to agree with the Americans what is to be said afterwards”] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 3 Th Major G7: MT to Malcolm Fraser (“Versailles economic summit and Mr Fraser’s initiative on protectionism”) [acknowledgement and assurance proposals will be discussed at Versailles] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 3 Th Major G7: FCO briefing for Versailles G7 (“Falklands: other territorial disputes”) [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 3 Th Major G7: FCO briefing for Versailles G7 (“Versailles summit: Prime Minister’s meeting with President Reagan on 4 June”) [”main purpose of the bilateral meeting… will be to discuss the Falklands“] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 3 Th Major G7: FCO briefing for Versailles G7 (“Versailles economic summit: bilateral meetings”) [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 3 Th Major G7: FCO briefing for Versailles G7 (“Falklands: briefing for Versailles summits”) [including analysis of countries' responses to Falklands War] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 3 Th Major G7: FCO letter to No.10 (“Lt Commander Astiz”) [French seeking quid pro quo] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 3 Th Major G7: FCO letter to No.10 (“East/West economic relations”) [US stance on export credit and existing contracts for Soviet Union] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 3 Th Major G7: Treasury briefing for Versailles G7 (“Versailles economic summit: update on summit economies”) [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 3 Th Major US: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("President Reagan and the US Budget Debate") [Howe urges MT to press Reagan on US budget deficit] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 3 Th Major G7: PS Cockfield letter to No.10 (“Versailles summit/export credit consensus”) [“real risk that the Consensus will disintegrate”] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 4 Fr Major G7: MT speech (Versailles economic summit) [stability as the key to economic recovery] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 4 Fr Key G7: No.10 record of conversation (evening after 1800Z) (Heads of Delegation “Falklands”) [Versailles economic summit] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 4 Fr Key G7: No.10 record of conversation (evening after 1800Z) (“conversation between Heads of Delegation on the evening of Friday, 4 June 1982”) [Versailles economic summit] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 5 Sa Major G7: Press conference transcript (“Press Conference of President Francois Mitterrand Versailles Saturday 5 June 1982”) [Versailles economic summit] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 5 Sa Major G7: Lord Bridges minute to FCO (“Global Negotiations”) [“must make clear integrity of the IMF, World Bank and GATT”] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 5 Sa Major G7: MH Jay record of conversation to Lord Bridges (“US draft communiqué language on East West economic relations”) [quadripartite political directors meeting - US/French disagreement on credit restraint] [declassified 2012]