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PREM19/1467
Economic policy (G7 Summit - Bonn) (Part 18)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 464
Themes: Economic policy - theory and process, Foreign policy - theory and process, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (Western Europe - non-EU), British relations with France, British relations with Italy, British relations with Netherlands, British relations with the Federal Republic of Germany, British relations with the US

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85 Apr 16 Tu Minor G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Bilateral Meetings during the Economic Summit") [proposed dates and times for meetings with Reagan, Mulroney, Nakasone and Craxi] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 16 Tu Major G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Bonn Economic Summit: Bilateral with President Reagan") [difficulty arranging a time, White House "virtually under siege", but "would be almost unprecedented for you not to have a bialteral with the President in the margins of an Economic Summit"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 16 Tu Major G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Bonn Economic Summit") [draft conclusions, MT "commented that they were a bit 'blancmangy'"; further attempt to strengthen] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 16 Tu Major G7: UKA Washington letter to Geoffrey Howe ("Economic Speech by Shultz at Princeton on 11 April") [speech "seems to represent... a chink in the hitherto rather rigid position of the Americans on the relationship between their budget deficit, the dollar, and the economies of other countries"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 17 We Major G7: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Bonn Summit") [Japanese "preoccupations" on: "the Japan problem", external policies, budget deficit] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 17 We Major G7: FCO telegram 657 to UKE Washington and UKE Tokyo (1800Z) ("Bonn Summit: Bilaterals") [MT to meet Reagan, Nakasone and Mitterrand; dates and times, possible subjects for discussion] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 18 Th Major G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit: Political Declaration") [Germans accept wording very close to ours on German unity] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 18 Th Major G7: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Bonn Summit: 2-4 May") [French will have two positive aims and two defensive aims for the summit; international monetary conference proposal] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 18 Th Major G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Robert Armstrong) ["Bonn Economic Summit" - discussion of summit draft declarations] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 19 Fr Major G7: UKE Washington telegram 1325 to FCO (2232Z) ("Bonn Economic Summit: Political Aspects") [meeting of G7 Political Directors in Washington; progress made in the drafting] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 19 Fr Minor G7: Cabinet Office to Graham Stegmann ("Briefing Arrangements for the Bonn Economic Summit") [procedure] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 22 Mo Major G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell (Bonn Economic Summit) [Kohl's letter on summit focus, his "concerns generally speaking match our own"; draft reply for MT] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 22 Mo Minor G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit: Arrangements") [German text of detailed schedule for summit, and press arrangements] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 22 Mo Major G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit: Meeting of Personal Representatives, 19-21 April") [final meeting of Sherpas - summit likely to focus on: US fiscal deficit, world economic recovery, high unemployment, EC economies, Japanese economy, protectionism] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 22 Mo Major G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit: Political Aspects") [MT's reservations about including a sentence on German unification; importance attached by Kohl to the statement] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 22 Mo Minor G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit: Manned Space Station") [US report on international participation in space station] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 22 Mo Minor G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit: Timetable") [latest schedule from the Germans] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 23 Tu Major G7: Charles Powell minute to Robert Armstrong ("Bonn Economic Summit: Meeting of Personal Representatives, 19/21 April") [MT's finds French government's stance on reference to Geneva talks and the Thematic Paper "irritating"; against a monetary conference, disturbed to see US position on this seems to be changing] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 23 Tu Minor G7: Helmut Schmidt speech ("Wishful thinking for the Bonn Summit") ["Consensus is possible"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 24 We Major G7: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Bonn Economic Summit") [Nakasone "somewhat apprehensive that Japan might be more open to criticism than her partners"] [released Dec 2014]