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PREM19/1818
Italy (Anglo-Italian relations: Italian political scene; British contribution to Italian earthquake relief, 1980-1981) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 387
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84 Jul 5 Thu Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italy Internal”) [Budget Minister Longo's name on P2 list; refuses to resign; threat to Craxi government] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Aug 6 Mon Italy: HMA despatch to FCO (“The PCI after Berlinguer”) [assessment of dead leader & future party prospects] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Oct 8 Mon Italy/trade: Tebbit minute to MT (“Visit to Italy: 1-2 October 1984”) [account of visit; market large and worth exploiting] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 8 Thu G7: Prime Minister Craxi of Italy letter to MT (proposed conference on technological innovation) [arrangements for event in Venice, April 1985] [released 2014]
84 Nov 27 Tue Italy: MT letter to Italian PM Craxi (Venice Conference on technological innovation) [most interested; seeks specifics] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 28 Fri Italy: Flesher letter to FCO (Venice Conference on technological innovation) [correspondence] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 25 Mon Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Deputy Italian PM Forlani) [economic policy] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 4 Mon Italy: Butler minute for MT (possible Pertini visit) [suggests she make clear Pertini should decide whether to attend Oxford degree ceremony regardless of Oxford refusing her one; MT agrees] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 8 Wed Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Italy”) [successful 17 day tour] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jun 25 Tue Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“New Italian President”) [Cossiga will bring a different style of approach; "should be a good friend to Britain"; profile; MT message of congratulation] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jun 26 Wed Italy: MT to President Pertini (retiring from office) ["I have always enjoyed our talks and found them fascinating"; congratulations on Oxford honorary degree] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 19 Fri Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“The suspension of the Lire” [sic]) [to check 'abnormal' depreciation pushing lira towards lower limit of EMS] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 19 Fri Italy: MT to Craxi (Val di Fiemme tragedy) [horrified to hear of dam collapse] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 22 Mon Italy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO (“Realignment of European currencies”) [report of EC monetary committee meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 30 Tue Italy: Italian PM Craxi to MT (Val di Fiemme tragedy) [dam collapse - thanks for condolences] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Aug 5 Mon Italy: President Cossiga to MT (election) [thanks for message of congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 12 Thu Italy: President Cossiga to MT (visit to UK) [has to cancel owing to "sudden build up of internal and international commitments"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 25 Wed Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Explosion at British Airways office in Rome”) [14 people injured; Arab man arrested; no responsibility yet claimed] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 31 Thu Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italy internal”) [Craxi government likely to be reconfirmed; Spadolini's Republicans losers from the crisis] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Nov 6 Wed Italy: Charles Powell to Italian Ambassador (Confindustria) [MT has no time to record message; Lord Young happy to do so] [declassified Dec 2014]