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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

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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81 Jun 29 Mo Minor Italy: No.10 minute for MT (delayed FCO telegram to UKE Luxembourg) [Spadolini forms government] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Dec 3 We Minor Italy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“Italy earthquake: community relief”) [Italians thinking of making a loan] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Jan 12 Mo Minor Italy: FCO minute to No.10 (“Italian earthquake relief”) [draft telegram to Forlani on relief effort] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Aug 24 Mo Minor Italy: FCO minute to No.10 (“New Italian government”) [identical to previous one; MT to send congratulations despite brevity of crisis] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Apr 21 Th Minor Italy: FCO minute to No.10 (“Links with the Italian Christian Democrat Party”) [uncertainty over date of general election] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Aug 31 We Minor Italy: FCO minute to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s message to Senator Fanfani”) [Fanfani reply to her farewell message] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Jan 3 Mo Minor Italy: No.10 minute to FCO (possible Colombo visit to UK) [No.10 rejects meeting on 12 Jan] [declassified Dec 2014]
79 Aug 13 Mo Minor Italy: MT to Cossiga & Malfatti (congratulations) [new Italian government] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Sep 7 We Minor Italy: MT to Cossiga (thanks for his letter) [recalls with pleasure their co-operation when he was PM, hopes to see him again] [declassified Dec 2014]
79 Aug 17 Fr Minor Italy: Cossiga to MT (thanks) [message upon becoming President of Council] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Aug 5 Mo Minor Italy: President Cossiga to MT (election) [thanks for message of congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 12 Th Minor Italy: President Cossiga to MT (visit to UK) [has to cancel owing to "sudden build up of internal and international commitments"] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Nov 7 Fr Minor Italy: Italian PM Forlani to MT (appointment) [thanks for message of congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 30 Tu Minor Italy: Italian PM Craxi to MT (Val di Fiemme tragedy) [dam collapse - thanks for condolences] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 19 Fr Minor Italy: MT to Craxi (Val di Fiemme tragedy) [horrified to hear of dam collapse] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jun 26 We Minor 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]
83 May 4 We Minor Italy: Coles minute (Fanfani speech) ['terrible' speech, but suggests MT thank him for sending it; her letter] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 28 Fr Minor Italy: Flesher letter to FCO (Venice Conference on technological innovation) [correspondence] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Nov 6 We Minor Italy: Charles Powell to Italian Ambassador (Confindustria) [MT has no time to record message; Lord Young happy to do so] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 8 Th Minor G7: Prime Minister Craxi of Italy letter to MT (proposed conference on technological innovation) [arrangements for event in Venice, April 1985] [released 2014]