Archive

1984 Sep 12 - 1985 Mar 25
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1502
Foreign Policy (Prime Minister's visit to China, Hong Kong and USA, December 1984: policy)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 250
Any docs withheld? 5

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Date Valuesort descending Title
84 Nov 9 Fr Major Foreign Policy: UKE Beijing telegram 2727 to FCO (0405Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Peking and Hong Kong") [Hong Kong aims; bilateral aims; multilateral aims] [released Dec 2014]
84 Dec 14 Fr Major Foreign Policy: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Visit to the United States") [request for briefing] [released Dec 2014]
84 Dec 20 Th Major Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Kadoorie) [Guangdong Nuclear Project] [released Dec 2014]
84 Nov 29 Th Major Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit by the Prime Minister to Peking and Hong Kong") [briefing proposals] [released Dec 2014]
84 Dec 14 Fr Major Foreign Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to Peking") [supplementary briefing] [released Dec 2014]
84 Nov 25 Su Major Foreign Policy: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Meeting with President Reagan") [subjects for discussion] [released Dec 2014]
84 Nov 7 We Major Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Signature of the Hong Kong Agreement: Sir Y K Pao") [MT doubtful that Pao can be persuaded not to attend] [released Dec 2014]
84 Dec 19 We Major Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3790 to FCO (2335Z) ("Prime Minister's Meeting with the President: Northern Ireland") [agreement on joint lines to take for the media] [released Dec 2014]
84 Nov 16 Fr Major Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Peking") [Howe/Youde advise against MT bring delegation of businessmen with her, and seeking to close Guangdong Nuclear Project deal, for fear of deflecting media attention from signing of Hong Kong agreement] [released Dec 2014]
84 Dec 11 Tu Major Foreign Policy: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Briefing Meeting for Your Visits to Peking, Hong Kong and Washington") [summary of steering briefs; attendees] [released Dec 2014]
84 Dec 19 We Major Foreign Policy: UKE Beijing telegram 3045 to FCO (1800Z) (MT, Hu Yaobang, Howe, Xueqian and others) [Hong Kong; Sino-UK trade prospects; Chinese internal reform] [released Dec 2014]
84 Dec 19 We Major Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3807 to FCO (2350Z) ("Speech by Weinberger on the Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI)") [speech to foreign press: "the most forceful and fullest public exposition so far given... of the rationale behind the SDI"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 25 Mo Major Foreign Policy: MT letter to Chinese Ambassador to the UK (Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong) [thanks for photo of signature ceremony] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 15 Tu Major Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to China") [copy enclosed of UKE Beijing despatch summarising the visit] [released Dec 2014]
84 Dec 19 We Major Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3803 to FCO (2010Z) ("The US Economy, the Federal Budget Deficit and US Defence Spending: Latest Developments") [analysis] [released Dec 2014]
84 Dec 7 Fr Major Foreign Policy: FCO letter to No.10 ("China: Possible Visit by Her Majesty the Queen") [line to take during MT visit to Beijing] [released Dec 2014]
84 Nov 14 We Major Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of the Prime Minister to Peking and Hong Kong") [programmes; participation in the Signature Ceremony; topics for talks in Beijing; timing & content of Announcement; delegation of industrialists] [released Dec 2014]
84 Dec 13 Th Major Foreign Policy: Department of Trade and Industry briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Meeting with President Reagan") [US import restrictions; Laker; US/USSR bilateral trade] [released Dec 2014]
84 Dec 19 We Major Foreign Policy: UKE Beijing telegram 3034 to FCO (0753Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit: Talks with Zhao: Hogn Kong") [signature of Joint Declaration on Hong Kong; trade; East-West relations] [released Dec 2014]
84 Dec 19 We Major Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 14 to FCO (2000Z) ("Prime Minister's Meeting with the President at Camp David: 22 December: Economic Issues") [analysis] [released Dec 2014]