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

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

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 464
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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 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]
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 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 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 Feb 20 We Major G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Robin Butler ("Bonn Economic Summit") [meeting of sherpas: declaration on end of WW2, draft of Thematic Paper; MT wanting more robust line on GATT and terrorism] [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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 1 Mo Major G7: No.10 note of conversation (Julian Bullard phone message) [message to Horst Teltschik delivered; Britain left out of three-way consultations between FRG, French and Italians] [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: 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 4 Th Major G7: Helmut Kohl message to MT (Bonn Economic Summit) ["Economic issues should again be at the forefront of our discussions"] [released Dec 2014]