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1983 May 27 - 1983 Oct 2
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1009
Economic policy (G7 Summit - Williamsburg) (Part 13)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 221
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83 May 30 Mon Economic Policy: UKDel Williamsburg telegram to FCO ("Williamsburg Economic Summit: final declaration") [full text] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 30 Mon Economic Policy: UKDel Williamsburg telegram to FCO ("Western stance on arms control") [MT comments to media on joint declaration and on the success of the Economic Summit] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 30 Mon Economic Policy: UKDel Williamsburg telegram to FCO ("Namibia") [Economic Summit: "Genscher... emphasised how high were the stakes in a Namibian settlement. The Soviet hope was to bring about a race war in Southern Africa"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 30 Mon Economic Policy: UKDel Williamsburg telegram to FCO ("Williamsburg Summit: statement on defence and disarmament") ["a striking statement to emerge... from an economic summit including countries whose position on these questions is as individual as those of France, Japan and the United States. You may find useful some explanation of how it happened... atmosphere... "rancid"... lessons to be drawn on the procedural side"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 30 Mon Economic Policy: UKDel Williamsburg telegram to FCO ("Leaders confident of prospects for recovery") [Economic Summit: summary of final statement] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 30 Mon Economic Policy: No.10 letter to Pym PS ("Anti-Americanism") [lead-up to Williamsburg Economic Summit; MT decides against raising issue of UK public sentiment with Reagan] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 30 Mon Economic Policy: Armstrong record of conversation (MT, Reagan, Mitterrand, Nakasone, Trudeau, Fanfani, Colombo, Howe, Pym, Regan, Shultz, McEachean, Delors, Stoltenberg) [Williamsburg Economic Summit plenary session: science & medical ethics; international debt; East/West trade; youth exchanges; commendations to Reagan for success of Summit] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 30 Mon Economic Policy: UKdel Williamsburg telegram to FCO ("Western unity at economic summit") [summary of MT meeting with Reagan, Kohl & Nakasone; summary of first & second meetings of the Seven; Howe meeting with Regan; likely topics for discussion during remainder of Summit] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 31 Tue Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS minute to Middleton (Chancellor of the Exchequer's Statement at the Williamsburg Economic Summit) ["This Summit has been an undoubted success... stress by all participants on the importance of securing growth without rekindling inflation"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 1 Wed Economic Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Williamsburg") ["one or two reports that Mitterrand is feeling a bit bruised after Williamsburg and that Kohl is worried about the consequences of this for Stuttgart"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 2 Thu Economic Policy: MT letter to President Reagan (Williamsburg Economic Summit) [thanks & congratulations on Summit's success] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 2 Thu Economic Policy: MT letter to President Mitterrand (Williamsburg Economic Summit) [apologies for having to depart Summit early due to Election campaign commitments] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 2 Thu Economic Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Fanfani (Williamsburg Economic Summit) [apologies for having to depart Summit early due to Election campaign commitments] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 2 Thu Economic Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Trudeau (Williamsburg Economic Summit) [apologies for having to depart Summit early due to Election campaign commitments] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 2 Thu Economic Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone (Williamsburg Economic Summit) [apologies for having to depart Summit early due to Election campaign commitments] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 2 Thu Economic Policy: MT letter to Chancellor Kohl (Williamsburg Economic Summit) [apologies for having to depart Summit early due to Election campaign commitments] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 3 Fri Economic Policy: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Williamsburg: messages to the Prime Minister") [draft replies to President of Colombia & President of UNICE] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 7 Tue Economic Policy: MT message to President Betancur (Williamsburg economic summit) ["it is vital that the recovery in the developed nations should be sound and that its benefits should be shared widely through an increase in international trade and a strengthening of the open trading system"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 7 Tue Economic Policy: MT message to President of UNICE (Williamsburg economic summit) ["I do not share the view that the structure of the international financial system is fragile"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 8 Wed Economic Policy: UKE Washington telegram 1589 to FCO (1939Z) ("US reactions to Williamsburg summit") ["opinion - though still somewhat sceptical about the operational effectiveness of economic summits as such - seems willing to accept that Williamsburg was indeed a modest success.... [Reagan] demonstrated to the sceptics that he could master the issues and chair the discussions effectively"] [declassified Aug 2013]