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 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value |
Title |
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| 85 Apr 30 Tu | Major | G7/Central America: UKE Washington telegram 1441 to FCO (2322Z) ("US/Central America: Economic Sanctions Against Nicaragua") ["likely to include bans on US imports from and exports to Nicaragua and suspension of air landing rights and port access"] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 May 1 We | Major | G7/Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 1446 to FCO (1935Z) ("Arab/Israel") ["Shultz was loath to accept that the US should take over the leading role in the peace process"] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 May 6 Mo | Minor | G7: Powell letter to German Ambassador to the UK (Helmut Kohl speech at Bergen-Belsen) [MT "pleased to have the opportunity to read the full text of this"] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 May 3 Fr | Major | G7: ?Butler record of conversation (plenary - heads of government) [Middle East, anniversary of WWII, economic recovery, trade] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 May 4 Sa | Major | G7: ?Butler record of conversation (plenary session) [Political Declaration: environment, new GATT round] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 May 3 Fr | Major | G7: ?Butler record of conversation (plenary) [trade and monetary policy, aid for Africa] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 May 1 We | Major | G7: ?Treasury briefing ("President Mitterrand's Currency Ideas") [line to take: "very sceptical about any future return to a fixed or nearly-fixed system"] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 May 4 Sa | Major | G7: Bernard Ingham minute to MT ("Summit Press Conference") ["This has been a peculiar summit"] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 May 2 Th | Minor | G7: Cabinet Office list of briefs for MT ("Bonn Economic Summit 2-4 May 1985") [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 May 1 We | Major | G7: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Bonn Economic Summit: Speaking Note on Economic Issues") [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 May 1 We | Major | G7: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Soviet air space reservations in the Berlin air corridors") [MT content with Howe pursuing preservation of Allied rights, but wants to be consulted before any major decision is taken] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 May 1 We | Major | G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Bonn Economic Summit: Bilaterals") [briefs for meetings with Craxi, Mitterrand] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 May 3 Fr | Key | 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 1 We | Minor | G7: Charles Powell minute to Robert Armstrong ("Bonn Economic Summit: Political Declaration") [draft declaration - MT "finds the French objection to any reference to the United States in the context of the Geneva talks petty to a degree"] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 May 3 Fr | Major | 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 7 Tu | Minor | G7: Charles Powell to Bernard Ingham (call from Kohl's office) [Germans "in a bit of a flap" after prematurely announcing MT-Kohl meeting at Chequers] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 May 2 Th | Major | 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 Apr 26 Fr | Minor | G7: European Parliament Secretary-General to MT (forwards European Parliament resolution) [Latin American debt and Bonn Summit] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 May 3 Fr | Major | 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 3 Fr | Major | G7: FCO record of conversation (Foreign Ministers' Meeting) [Central America, drugs, political declaration, economic issues, press briefing] [released Dec 2014] |