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1983 Apr 25 - 1983 May 26
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1008
Economic policy (G7 Summit - Williamsburg) (Part 12)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 325
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83 May 17 Tue Economic Policy: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Preparation for Williamsburg") ["adequate financial flows to the third world"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 17 Tue Economic Policy: Cabinet Office letter to Ministerial Private Secretaries ("Williamsburg Economic Summit: 28-30 May 1983") ["list of briefs to be prepared"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 18 Wed Economic Policy: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Anti-Americanism") ["unsafe to see this as a passing phase... not sure how far... [MT] will want or be able to pursue this subject at Williamsburg [Economic Summit]... the biggest single improvement... would be a resolve not to spring surprises on their allies"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 19 Thu Economic Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Preparations for Williamsburg") ["Sherpas meeting 11-13 May"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 19 Thu Economic Policy: Ingham minute to MT ("Williamsburg - Media") [arrangements] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 21 Sat Economic Policy: Pérez de Cuellar message to MT (1500Z) ("Williamsburg Summitt") [measures to stimulate global economic growth] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 21 Sat Economic Policy: UKHC Delhi telegram to FCO ("Williamsburg and the UNGA Summit") ["it seems clear that the Indians are beginning to panic about the damage to Mrs Gandhi's prestige if no adequate UNGA summit takes place"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 23 Mon Economic Policy: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Williamsburg Summitt") [report on the Japanese Prime Minister's lunch meeting with Ambassadors] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 24 Tue Economic Policy: President Reagan message to MT (Williamsburg Economic Summit) [MT press conference; drafting of joint statement; French concerns] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 24 Tue Economic Policy: President Reagan letter to MT (Williamsburg Economic Summit) ["some ideas as to how we might organise our discussion of the economic issues"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 24 Tue Economic Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Williamsburg: bilateral meetings") [Economic Summit: "I should be grateful for your decisions on various points"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 24 Tue Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The US deficit") ["[if] you could have a word with the President, in private, about the US deficit... well worth doing"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 24 Tue Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to no.10 ("Economic summit: Williamsburg") [regarding President Reagan's hope for "a public statement from the Summit on INF"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 24 Tue Economic Policy: Cabinet Office letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Economic summit: Williamsburg") ["preparatory work on the declaration to be made by President Reagan on behalf of his colleagues at the end of the Economic Summit"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 25 Wed Economic Policy: UKE Washington telegram 1465 to FCO (1700Z) ("Willliamsburg Summit: President Reagan") [standing in US opinion polls: "a successful Summit would be a bonus for him: but he does not need it as a life-line"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 25 Wed Economic Policy: UKE Washington telegram 1466 to FCO (1701Z) ("Willliamsburg: the US approach") ["widespread perception here that the President came out badly from Versailles... concerned to avoid a row... [US] see this as the Summit of economic recovery.. wary of the French approach to the Summit, rather than downright hostile to it"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 25 Wed Economic Policy: UKE Washington telegram 1470 to FCO (2030Z) ("The US economy before the Willliamsburg Summit") ["now growing sharply... a substantial and widespread recovery... chief threat to the recovery remains high interest rates"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 25 Wed Economic Policy: UKE Washington telegram 1479 to FCO (2232Z) ("Willliamsburg Summit: INF") ["Americans have dropped the idea of any pre-negotiated statement"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 25 Wed Economic Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Preparations for Willliamsburg: German expectations") [East/West trade & French position on the issue; economic policy; Kohl meetings with Reagan & Andropov/INF] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 25 Wed Economic Policy: Antony Parsons briefing for MT ("Willliamsburg") [Economic Summit: bilateral with Reagan: key issues: Soviet Union; Belize; Falklands; Syria] [declassified Aug 2013]