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

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

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 229
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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 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 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]
82 Nov 19 Fr Major Economic Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3754 to FCO (0025Z) ("1983 Economic Summit") ["Mitterrand... angry... because he felt that the Americans had treated him cavalierly by announcing.. the Summit [dates, without consulting him]"] [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]
82 Sep 21 Tu Major Economic Policy: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Economic Summit") [note from MT talks with Suzuki during visit to Japan: MT concerns about timing of the Summit] [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 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]
82 Nov 15 Mo Major Economic Policy: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's meeting with Mr Shultz, 14 November: world economy and economic summits") [Shultz, Pym partial record of conversation: world economy: "Austerity was a correct prescription for one country, so long as others were in good shape? But what about if a number of countries were badly placed?... agenda for the next Summit"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 1 Tu Major Economic Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer, Claude Cheysson) [Williamsburg Economic Summit: Mitterrand proposals for agenda; EC budget] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 12 We Major Economic Policy: Pym minute to MT ("Bilateral consultations") ["important meetings... over the next few months... our priorities and objectives"] [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]
82 Oct 18 Mo Major Economic Policy: President Reagan message to MT (Williamsburg economic summit: agenda) ["these meetings are an especially valuable opportunity for frank, candid and direct conversation... The problems we face cannot be reduced to structured agendas"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 28 Fr Major Economic Policy: President Reagan message to MT (Williamsburg Economic Summit) [topics for discussion] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 1 Fr Major Economic Policy: President Reagan message to MT (Economic Summit 1983) [date] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Sep 29 We Major Economic Policy: President Reagan letter to MT (Economic Summit 1983: Williamsburg) [US invitation] [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 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 Feb 9 We Major Economic Policy: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Preparation for the Economic Summit in Williamsburg") [MT concerned that Mitterrand preparing "prescriptive and interventionist proposals"; requests UK paper to counterbalance them] [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]