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PREM19/1762
France (Visits to UK by President Mitterrand) (Part 5)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2019 Feb 6
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 239
Any docs withheld? 7

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86 Oct 13 Mo Major France: Cabinet Office briefing for Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's meeting with President Mitterrand") [points on the EC to keep in mind: relations with France, European Council, EC financing] [declassified Feb 2019]
86 Oct 15 We Minor France: Cabinet Office briefing for Charles Powell ("Visit of President Mitterrand: Thursday 16 October") [dialogue on nuclear weapons] [declassified Feb 2019]
85 Nov 11 Mo Minor France: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Anglo-French Summit") [participants, arrangements, press conference] [declassified Feb 2019]
85 Nov 15 Fr Minor France: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Anglo-French Summit") [participants, arrangements] [declassified Feb 2019]
85 Nov 4 Mo Minor France: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Anglo-French Summit: 18 November") [arrangements, press conference, participants] [declassified Feb 2019]
86 Oct 7 Tu Minor France: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Visit of President Mitterrand") [arrangements for informal talk about EC Council meeting] [declassified Feb 2019]
85 Nov 11 Mo Major France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-French Summit") [French motives, Channel link, Falklands, Inter-Governmental conference, east-west relations] [declassified Feb 2019]
85 Nov 14 Th Major France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-French Summit") [want impression to go out of "a reasonably functioning Anglo-French cooperation"] [declassified Feb 2019]
85 Nov 17 Su Minor France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-French Summit: Press Conference") [possible opening remarks on: Channel link, arms control, EC issues, Eureka, defence] [declassified Feb 2019]
86 Oct 15 We Major France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with President Mitterrand") [Mitterrand seeking to upstage Chirac, Reagan's nuclear weapons proposals, EC issues, agriculture, Middle East] [declassified Feb 2019]
86 Oct 4 Sa Major France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("President Mitterrand") [Mitterrand's motives: put Chirac in the shade, discuss east/west relations] [declassified Feb 2019]
86 Oct 6 Mo Minor France: Charles Powell minute to Robert Armstrong (Meeting with President Mitterrand) [EC financing, possible informal meeting] [declassified Feb 2019]
86 Oct 15 We Major France: FCO briefing ("M. Mitterrand's Visit, 16 October") [EC topics, terrorism, drugs and immigration, Japan] [declassified Feb 2019]
86 Oct 15 We Minor France: FCO briefing (Mitterrand meeting) [list of guests, timetable] [declassified Feb 2019]
86 Sep 30 Tu Major France: George Younger letter to Andre Giraud (defence issues) [possible cooperation on politico/military and strategic matters, on technical matters] [declassified Feb 2019]
85 Nov 18 Mo Major France: Home Office record of conversation (Hurd-Joxe) [domestic terrorism and Irish situation, Anglo-Irish Agreement, New Caledonia] [declassified Feb 2019]
85 Nov 16 Sa Major France: Howe minute for MT ("Anglo-French Summit") [points to discuss: arms control negotiations, Inter-Governmental conference, Eureka, Channel link, defence] [declassified Feb 2019]
85 Nov 17 Su Major France: Howe minute for MT ("Your Meeting with President Mitterrand") [Intergovernmental Conference discussions on: environment and technology, resource transfer, EC Parliament, Commission powers] [declassified Feb 2019]
85 Oct 16 We Major France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo-French Summit: 18 November 1985") [French domestic situation, east/west relations, EC, bilateral relations, Channel link] [declassified Feb 2019]
85 Nov 15 Fr Minor France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo-French Summit: Brief for handling the plenary") [east/west, Falklands, Southern Africa, Middle East, bilateral relations, defence issues] [declassified Feb 2019]