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1984 Sep 7 - 1985 Apr 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

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

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 464
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84 Dec 13 Th Major G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit 1985") [first Sherpa meeting for Bonn; procedural aspects] [released Dec 2014]
84 Jan 10 Tu Major G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit 1985") ["the words of which the Prime Minister complains were the actual words used by my German colleague. I have noted the Prime Minister's distate for them"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 9 We Major G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit") [German government hopes to focus on "the need to create conditions for lasting recovery, sustainable growth and higher employment"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 20 We Major G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit") [German draft of the thematic paper is "thorough and workmanlike" and contains "very little in it which presents us with problems of substance"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 27 We Major G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit") [revisions to declaration on 40th anniversary of WW2; MT: "It won't do as it is"] [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 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 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 29 Mo Major G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit: Economic Declaration") [MT: "I think it is a mistake to group the European countries - indeed it is somewhat confrontational"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 29 Mo Major G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit: Political Declaration") [amendments to passages on end of WWII to suit Japanese and French, no reference to 'vanquished'; division of Korea; Geneva talks] [released Dec 2014]
85 Feb 25 Mo Major G7: Charles Powell minute to Robert Armstrong ("Bonn Economic Summit") [MT "is surprised to hear that we are being cautious on the launching of a new trade round in the GATT"; space policy, terrorism] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 21 Th Major G7: Charles Powell minute to Robert Armstrong ("Bonn Economic Summit") [MT's thoughts on thematic declaration draft: "we should not be too modest about our record of growth"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 29 Mo Major G7: Charles Powell minute to Cabinet Office ("Bonn Economic Summit: Speaking Note On Economic Issues") [MT wants the note rewording with an eye to its reaching the press; wants more on deregulation, US and Japanese restrictive practices] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 29 Mo Major G7: Charles Powell minute to Cabinet Office ("Economic Summit") [MT requests briefings on: Mitterrand ideas for international monetary system, Japanese subsidy to Bosporus bridge, US restrictive practices re: trans-Alaska pipeline] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 16 Tu Major G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Bilaterals during the Economic Summit") [Reagan, Mitterrand, Nakasone; Mulroney already seen, Craxi no reason to see] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 16 Tu Major G7: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Bilaterals during the Bonn Economic Summit") [arrangements, order of priority for meetings (Reagan, Nakasone, Mitterrand), topics to discuss] [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 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 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]