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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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85 Apr 24 We Major G7: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Bonn Economic Summit: FRG Views") [Kohl interview - "Public German rejection of a locomotive role for themselves"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 24 We Major Cold War: UK Delegation NATO telegram to FCO ("US/Soviet Geneva Talks: Briefing to NAC") ["Despite the lack of movement, the atmosphere of the talks had been cordial and quite business-like"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 24 We Major G7: MT message to Helmut Kohl (Bonn Economic Summit) [discussions should have "aim of achieving consistent macro-economic policies and... of encouraging enterprise and helping the labour market to work more efficiently"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 25 Th Major G7: UKE Washington telegram 1378 to FCO (0230Z) ("The Second Reagan Administration and the Approach to the Bonn Summit") ["with the re-election honeymoon over, the administration is in a bad patch"; "1986 mid-terms begin to cast a long shadow"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 25 Th Major G7: UKE Washington telegram 1379 to FCO (0240Z) ("Bonn Summit: US Trade Policy") [US seeking a new GATT round; "if the summit is seen to fail, the domestic protectionist pressures may become irresistible"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 25 Th Major G7: UKE Washington telegram 1380 to FCO (0250Z) ("Bonn Summit: US Economy and Economic Policies") ["the growth of the US economy has slowed down to a crawl"; international monetary meeting] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 25 Th Major G7: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Bonn Summit: French approach") [French "will stand firm" on position on GATT and securing European interests] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 26 Fr Major G7: Uruguayan President Julio Maria Sanguinetti message to MT ("Latin America Debt") ["it would be a grave mistake to think that the problem of foreign debt has been overcome"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 26 Fr Major G7: Cabinet Office letter to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit: TGE Reports") [reports of G7 working groups on Technology, Growth and Employment and the Environment] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 27 Sa Major G7: Helmut Kohl message to MT (Bonn Economic Summit) [hopes summit will adopt a declaration on anniversary of the end of WWII "which recalls the terrible suffering of the war and underscores our common position on the safeguarding of peace, freedom and justice"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 27 Sa Major G7: MT message to Ronald Reagan (Bonn Economic Summit) [hopes to "work very closely together" on setting dates for new GATT round, terrorism, strategic defence initiative] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 28 Su Major G7: President Ershad message to MT (Bonn Economic Summit) [difficulties facing developing economies] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 28 Su Major G7: Robin Nicholson briefing for MT ("EUREKA") [proposal for a new European programme of coordinated research "is ill-thought out, in that whilst it identifies the right problem, the diagnosis is wrong"; may arise in margins of summit] [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 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 29 Mo Major G7: UKE Washington telegram 1422 to FCO (1530Z) ("[Don] Regan's Washington Post Interview: Interest Rates, US Deficit and Monetary Reform Meeting") [quotes from interview relevant to Bonn summit; international monetary conference] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 29 Mo Major G7: UKE Washington telegram 1429 to FCO (2243Z) ("Secretary Baker's Press Interview on the Bonn Economic Summit") ["all of our economies face structural rigidities which hinder job creation and sustained growth"; no linkage between monetary conference and new GATT round] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 29 Mo Major G7: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Bonn Summit: French approach") [Mitterrand's views on monetary reform and GATT] [released Dec 2014]