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1983 Apr 22 - 1983 Dec 22
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1155
Foreign policy (Strategy meetings: foreign affairs and defence) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 417
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83 Dec 22 Th Major Foreign policy: No.10 minute (internal): Parsons to Coles ("Last Words") [Gulf; Palestine; Lebanon; Hong Kong; Falklands; Belize/Caribbean; UK/American relations; East/West relations; nuclear] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 17 Sa Major Foreign policy: MT letter to Michael Kaser (meeting at Chequers) [thanks for his help in arranging the meeting attended by he & his academic colleagues] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 12 Mo Major Foreign policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Chequers: foreign policy strategy discussion") [handling of the conclusions from the discussions, including Howe paper on East/West relations for OD] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 12 Mo Major Foreign policy: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 (Global Strategic Perspective from Moscow) [paper assessing probably Soviet policies under new leadership of Andropov] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 9 Fr Major Foreign policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Baroness Young, Luce, Heseltine, Parkinson, Cockfield, Geoffrey Pattie, John Stanley, Antony Acland, James Craig, Anthony Parsons & others) ["Policy on the Middle East": meeting at Chequers] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 9 Fr Major Foreign policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Baroness Young, Heseltine, Luce, Acland, Bullard, John Stanley, Field Marshal Edwin Brammall & others) ["Policy on Arms Control and Disarmament": meeting at Chequers] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 8 Th Major Foreign policy: No.10 record of conversations (MT, Howe, Heseltine, Rifkind, Acland, Parsons, Bullard, academic experts & others (a.m.); MT, Howe, Heseltine, Rifkind, Acland, Parsons & others (p.m.)) ["Policy on East/West relations": meeting at Chequers] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 6 Tu Major Foreign policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Strategy meetings: Foreign Affairs) [meetings at Chequers: itinerary & subjects including East/West relations; UK global interests/priorities; arms control; Middle East] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jul 28 Th Major Foreign policy: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Foreign Affairs and Defence Strategy") ["drafts of the discussion papers for the Prime Minister's strategy meetings on 8 and 9 September"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jul 26 Tu Major Foreign policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Foreign Affairs Strategy Sessions: Chequers") [first drafts of papers for policy discussion on 8/9 September] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jul 26 Tu Major Foreign policy: No.10 minute (internal): Coles to Flesher ("Strategy Meetings: Chequers") [invitations; administrative arrangements; papers] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jul 22 Fr Major Foreign policy: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Foreign Affairs and Defence: Strategy") [invitations; topics] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jul 18 Mo Major Foreign policy: No.10 letter to invitees (Foreign Affairs and Defence: Strategy meeting at Chequers) [invitation to group of academic experts to discuss matters relating to Soviet Union and Eastern Europe] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jul 15 Fr Major Foreign policy: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with Michael Kaser) [to discuss forthcoming meeting, on matters relating to Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, of academic experts at Chequers] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jul 14 Th Major Foreign policy: No.10 minute (internal): Parsons to Coles ("British Foreign Policy") ['Sunday Times' article by Nicholas Henderson] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jul 8 Fr Major Foreign policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Chequers Strategy Meetings 8 & 9 September: Foreign Affairs and Defence") [MT unhappy with list of proposed attendees: "it is purely internal. That is NOT the point"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 27 Mo Major Foreign policy: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Foreign Affairs and Defence: Strategy") [amendments as requested by MT to draft agenda for meetings at Chequers on 8/9 September] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 24 Fr Major Foreign policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Foreign Affairs and Defence: Strategy") [draft agenda for meeting at Chequers on 8/9 September; MT requests a revised agenda] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 17 Fr Major Foreign policy: No.10 minute to MT ("East/West relations") ["I attach a letter and paper from Michael Alexander... [if] you think the paper is of any use... he will send it to the FCO"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 15 We Major Foreign policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Foreign Policy: Strategy") ["You have said to me more than once that you feel we have not given sufficient consideration to out general strategy in foreign policy"; proposed meetings/topics] [declassified Aug 2013]