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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Mar 28 Th Major G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit") [meeting of sherpas: problems over timing of new GATT round will need to be resolved at summit itself] [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 Mar 6 We Major G7: Jenkin PS to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit") ["we should firmly resist German attempts to suppress or modify" conclusions on the environment] [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]
85 Mar 28 Th Major G7: Charles Powell to Horst Teltschik (Bonn Economic Summit) [draft political declaration "on the right lines", but MT thinks declaration on anniversary of end of WWII "would gain in impact if it were a little more measured"] [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 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]
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]
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 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 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: 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 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 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]