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1982 Sep 21 - 1983 Apr 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1007
Economic policy (G7 Summit - Williamsburg) (Part 11)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 229
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83 Feb 25 Fr Major Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Williamsburg Economic Summit) [transcription of Shultz press conference regarding the forthcoming Summit] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 8 Tu Major Economic Policy: Pym minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Economic Summit") [Pym: "Summit countries should demonstrate that they possess both the will and the capacity to help bring the world out of recession"; however MT condemns "vague" ideas ascribed to Shultz & Regan] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 8 Tu Major Economic Policy: FCO record of conversation ("Secretary of State's [Pym] Talks with Secretary Regan: 4 March") [US economy; oil prices; international banking system; Mexico; Williamsburg G7 Summit] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 14 Mo Major Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Economic Summit") [covering minute for attached background/steering brief: MT primarily unhappy with briefing's indication that the Summit will aim to produce a communique outlining a joint economic strategy for the G7] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 15 Tu Major Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Armstrong) ["Economic Summit": MT "concern[ed] about our current approach as illustrated by the briefs... each country must take the necessary internal measures to solve its own problems"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 16 We Major Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Pym ("US economy and Williamsburg Summit") ["thought I should let you know at once that I am a little worried about some of the ideas you report from George Shultz and Don Regan"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 22 Tu Major Economic Policy: Walters minute to Coles ("US economy and the Williamsburg Summit") [confusion over US stance on exchange rate mechanisms and foreign aid] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 22 Tu Major Economic Policy: UKMIS Geneva telegram 114 to FCO (1435Z) ("Preparations for the Williamsburg Summit") [summary of "US Deputy Secretary of State... address here yesterday": his assessment of world economic context for the Summit] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 23 We Major Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Economic Summit: Williamsburg") [Armstrong report on meeting of Personal Representatives to discuss agenda for the Summit] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 28 Mo Major Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Williamsburg Economic Summit) [Alan Walters' attendance at meeting of Personal Representatives] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 11 Mo Major Economic Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO (Meetings of Trade and Finance Ministers of the Seven) [EC summary of US ideas on Trade for the Williamsburg summit] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 12 Tu Major Economic Policy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Mr Julian Critchley MP") [press report that MT to ask President Reagan, at Williamsburg economic summit, for dual key control of UK-based cruise missiles] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 12 Tu Major Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting of Ministers at 1700 hours on Wednesday: Williamsburg") [Economic summit: general economic situation; international trade & debt financing ; East/West economic relations] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 13 We Major Economic Policy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (Williamsburg summit) ["Italian draft papers for the 17th April Sherpa meeting"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 13 We Major Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Pym, Rees, Armstrong) ["Economic summit: Williamsburg"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 13 We Major Economic Policy: Ingham briefing for MT ("Washington/Williamsburg media") [Economic summit: "this visit... will certainly be invested by the media with enormous significance whether or not you have called an election by then"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 18 Mo Major Economic Policy: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Williamsburg summit") ["Japanese would clearly like to engineer a meeting... in the margins of the summit"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 20 We Major Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Economic summit: Williamsburg") [report on "further meeting of Personal Representatives for the preparation of the... Summit... characterised by a mood of extreme mutual suspicion, amounting almost to hostility, between the United States and French delegations"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 28 Th Major Economic Policy: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Meeting of Finance and Trade Ministers of the Seven Summit Countries") [US invitation "to meet in Paris in the margins of the forthcoming OECD Ministerial meeting" declined by the French; UK asked to confirm its intention] [declassified Aug 2013]