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1985 Apr 25 - 1985 Sep 22
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1468
Economic policy (G7 Summit - Bonn) (Part 19)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 412
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85 May 2 Thu G7: Cabinet Office list of briefs for MT ("Bonn Economic Summit 2-4 May 1985") [released Dec 2014]
85 May 2 Thu G7: DTI brief ("Bonn Economic Summit: 2-4 May 1985. GATT Work Programme") [major items on the programme include safeguards, agriculture, services, tropical products, tariff escalation] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 2 Thu G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("1985 CAP Price Fixing") [Howe's comments on German position, points he suggests to be raised with Kohl] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 2 Thu G7: Hurd PS minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit") [Home Office suggestion re: line to take on drugs problem] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 2 Thu G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Kohl) [protectionism, international monetary conference, new GATT round, Strategic Defence Initiative] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 2 Thu G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan bilateral) [international monetary conference, exchange rates, new GATT round, Japan, political declaration, Strategic Defence Initiative, UN anniversary] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 3 Fri G7: G7 draft declaration ("Political Declaration on the 40th Anniversary of the End of the Second World War") ["we dedicate ourselves and our countries anew to the creation of a world in which all peoples enjoy the blessings of peace, of justice, and of freedom"] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 3 Fri G7: FCO record of conversation (Foreign Ministers' Meeting) [Central America, drugs, political declaration, economic issues, press briefing] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 3 Fri G7: FCO record of conversation (Howe-Clark bilateral) [VE day celebrations, Southern Africa, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, UNESCO, European Community] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 3 Fri G7: FCO record of conversation (Howe-Abe bilateral) [East-West relations in the Asian context, international trading system] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 3 Fri G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Craxi) [future of the European Community, Economic Summit] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 3 Fri G7: ?Butler record of conversation (plenary - heads of government) [Middle East, anniversary of WWII, economic recovery, trade] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 3 Fri G7: ?Butler record of conversation (plenary) [trade and monetary policy, aid for Africa] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 3 Fri G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with Chancellor Kohl, on 18 May, 1985") [attaches paper on political cooperation; meeting "will be crucial in determining whether we succeed in channelling the debate on the future of the European Community over the next months towards sensible conclusions with which we can live"; need to convince Euro-enthusiasts Britain moving ahead, but "we don't want to succumb to the drivel about European Union"] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 3 Fri G7: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-McFarlane: "IDU Meeting in Washington") [MT "was clearly taken aback to hear that the President knew nothing of the meeting and commented that a certain amount of 'leverage' appeared to be going on"] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 3 Fri G7: FCO minute to Robert Armstrong ("New GATT Round: Agriculture") [EC statement - a hard-fought compromise, best avoid all reference to agriculture in G7 economic declaration] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 4 Sat G7: No.10 briefing cards for MT ("Bilateral with Mr. Nakasone") [trade imbalance, liberalisation of financial markets] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 4 Sat G7: G7 communiqué draft ("The Bonn Economic Declaration: Towards Sustained Growth and Higher Employment") ["Latest draft"; 4 May, version 7] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 4 Sat Media: Bernard Ingham briefing for MT ("BBC Radio Four 'World This Weekend'") [Chequers interview - "the present criticism of the Government is confused"; show that you have a clear direction, vigour] [released Dec 2014]
85 May 4 Sat G7: Bernard Ingham minute to MT ("Summit Press Conference") ["This has been a peculiar summit"] [released Dec 2014]