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PREM19/2089
Economic Policy (G7 Summit - Venice, June 1987) (Part 22)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Secret
Page count: 276
Themes: Economic policy - theory and process, Monetary policy, Trade, Foreign policy - theory and process, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (Western Europe - non-EU), British relations with the Federal Republic of Germany, British relations with the US, British relations with Italy, British relations with France, British relations with Japan

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Date Value Title
86 Oct 7 Tu Minor G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Venice Economic Summit") [hopes Italian personal representative will revert to original proposal for event on 7/9 June] [released July 2016]
86 Oct 13 Mo Minor G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Venice Economic Summit") [draft programme] [released July 2016]
86 Oct 13 Mo Minor G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Bernard Ingham ("Venice Economic Summit") [rules for press briefings provisionally agreed] [released July 2016]
86 Oct 13 Mo Minor G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Venice Economic Summit") [preferable dates for event are 7/9 June] [released July 2016]
86 Oct 18 Sa Minor G7: Bernard Ingham minute to Robert Armstrong ("Venice Economic Summit - Media") [ground rules for press briefing, press centre] [released July 2016]
86 Oct 23 Th Minor G7: Jonathan Davidson letter to Bernard Ingham ("Foundation for the cohesion of the West") [first foundation likely to be established in Britain] [released July 2016]
86 Dec 15 Mo Minor G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Foundation for the cohesion of the West: 21st Century Trust") [set up in response to suggestion that there is "a prolbem of growing strains of cohesion in the West"] [released July 2016]
87 Feb 10 Tu Major Economic Policy: Armstrong minute for Charles Powell (meeting of sherpas for Venice G7) [MT highly critical] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Feb 10 Tu Minor G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell (Venice Economic Summit) [first meeting of Personal Representatives to identify and discuss main issues for Summit] [released July 2016]
87 Feb 11 We Minor G7: Charles Powell minute to Robert Armstrong (Venice Economic Summit) [MT "finds the failure to exert pressure on the Japanese representative inexplicable"] [released July 2016]
87 Feb 13 Fr Minor G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell (Personal Representatives meeting) [draft thematic paper] [released July 2016]
87 Mar 9 Mo Minor G7: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Venice Summit: Political Topics") [Canada proposing inclusion of South Africa on the agenda] [released July 2016]
87 Apr 20 Mo Major G7: President Reagan message to MT (Venice Economic Summit) ["We must all address the problems created by our domestic agricultural policies"] [released July 2016]
87 Apr 23 Th Minor G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Venice Economic Summit") [Powell meeting with Italians "should enable us to influence Italian thinking on all the important issues in the immediate run-up to the Summit"] [released July 2016]
87 Apr 27 Mo Major G7: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Venice Economic Summit") [thematic paper: world economic situation, trade, agriculture, debt, energy, environment, political issues] [released July 2016]
87 Apr 28 Tu Major G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Venice Economic Summit: Sherpas' Meeting") [thematic paper: macro-economic policies, Japan's external surplus, GATT round, South Africa, AIDS] [released July 2016]
87 Apr 29 We Minor G7: Charles Powell minute to Robert Armstrong ("Venice Economic Summit") [MT "believes that the thematic paper should be very firmly worded on the question of Japan's external surplus"] [released July 2016]
87 May 6 We Major G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Venice Economic Summit 1987") [meeting of Personal Representatives: thematic paper, trade, agriculture, debt, energy, environment, political issues] [released July 2016]
87 May 12 Tu Minor G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Venice Economic Summit") [final meeting of Personal Representatives to finalise Thematic Paper] [released July 2016]
87 May 12 Tu Minor G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell (Venice Economic Summit) [draft text on terrorism: Howe clear that it "needs to be made much more robust"] [released July 2016]