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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1361
Prime Minister tours abroad (G7 Summit - London; 40th anniversary of D-Day: administrative arrangements) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 403
Any docs withheld? 31
Themes: Foreign policy - theory and process

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Date Value Title
83 Jan 28 Fr Minor G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles ("Economic Summit 1984") [possible venues] [released Jan 2014]
83 Dec 4 Su Minor G7: Howe PS minute to John Coles ("1984 Economic Summit") [connection between summit dates and events around D-Day anniversary; "remembrance and reconciliation" the best tone for German susceptibilities] [released Jan 2014]
84 Jan 20 Fr Major G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (Economic Summit 1984) [proposal for visit by Japanese PM; Reagan and Trudeau also to be in London before summit] [released Jan 2014]
84 Mar 23 Fr Major G7: UKE Washington telegram 999 to FCO (2330Z) ("Summit 7 Experts Meeting to Discuss Terrorism") [American concern that failure to react to attacks "creating a perception around the world that they were a helpless giant"] [released Jan 2014]
84 Apr 2 Mo Major G7: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("40th Anniversary of D-Day") [French aware that wartime allies who are now members of Warsaw Pact could try to exploit celebrations] [released Jan 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo Minor G7: Michael Heseltine minute to Peter Rees ("D-Day: 40th Anniversary Celebrations") [arrangements, indemnities] [released Jan 2014]
84 Apr 16 Mo Major G7: FCO record of conversation (Howe-Genscher; "40th Anniversary of D Day") [Gencscher hopes that speeches will "reflect awareness of the need to look more to the future than to the past"] [released Jan 2014]
84 May 2 We Major G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles ("London Economic Summit") [announcement on summit programme] [released Jan 2014]
84 May 2 We Minor G7: Nicholas Barrington minute ("London Economic Summit: Programme") [MT signs off on arrangements for arrivals, reception, dinner] [released Jan 2014]
84 May 3 Th Minor G7: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("40th Anniversary of The Normandy Landings") [programme for Queen's visit] [released Jan 2014]
84 May 9 We Major G7: Bernard Ingham minute to MT ("Economic Summit - Media") [pre-summit press conference, interviews] [released Jan 2014]
84 May 9 We Minor G7: Cabinet Office minute to Private Secretaries ("London Economic Summit: 7-9 June 1984") [briefing arrangements] [released Jan 2014]
84 May 14 Mo Major G7: Heseltine minute to Sir Geoffrey Howe ("Normandy Landings" - speeches celebrating 40th anniversary) ["I hope we can avoid too much of the flavour of the triumph of good over evil or any denigration of the German Army, which is obviously a sensitive issue in Germany"] [released Jan 2014]
84 May 15 Tu Major G7: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("London Economic Summit") [White House wants changes in press arrangements; Deaver call warns these were "of great significance in an election year"] [released Jan 2014]
84 May 18 Fr Minor G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles ("London Summit: Programme") [timings, practical arrangements] [released Jan 2014]
84 May 21 Mo Minor G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles ("London Economic Summit: Lunch Arrangements") [Sherpas propose Foreign Ministers should brief Heads of Government over lunch on second day; MT agrees] [released Jan 2014]
84 May 22 Tu Minor G7: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("London Economic Summit: Security") [CND demonstration - decision not to change plans in light of] [released Jan 2014]
84 May 24 Th Minor G7: Howe PS minute to John Coles ("Prime Minister's Bilateral Meetings during the London Economic Summit") [Howe does not suggest joining MT during her bilaterals] [released Jan 2014]
84 May 24 Th Minor G7: Coles note for MT (seating plans for summit meals) [menus, gifts also] [released Jan 2014]
84 May 25 Fr Minor G7: Bernard Ingham minute to Robert Armstrong ("TUAC") [press release account of MT receiving delegation from OECD trade union advisory committee] [released Jan 2014]