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1988 Jun 13 - 1988 Jun 17
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2092
Economic Policy (G7 Summit - Toronto) (Part 25)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Secret and Personal
Page count: 330
Themes: Economic policy - theory and process, Agriculture, Trade, Foreign policy - theory and process, Foreign policy (development, aid, etc)

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Date Value Title
88 Feb 2 Tu Minor G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's meeting with the Canadian Prime Minister: Economic Summit") [prevention of the laundering of drug money] [released July 2016]
88 May 31 Tu Major G7: Revised Canadian Thematic Paper plus UK Commentary (annotated draft) [released July 2016]
88 Jun 1 We Major G7: Nigel Wicks speaking notes for MT ("Speaking notes for the 14th Economic Summit, last in this series of 7 which began at Versailles in 1982") [East-West relations, world economic situation, structural reform, trade and agriculture, newly industrialising economies and debt] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 8 We Minor G7: Helmut Schmidt letter to MT (InterAction Council) [prospects for the world economy in the 1990s] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 13 Mo Minor G7: Royal Institute of International Affairs letter to Charles Powell (Tokyo Club) [proposals for the Toronto Summit] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 13 Mo Major G7: Bernard Ingham minute to Nigel Wicks ("Economic Summit Briefing") [planned Wicks unattributable briefing on summit; media interest "the lowest I can recall"] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 13 Mo Minor G7: Canadian Minister in London letter to Bernard Ingham ("Rules for media briefing") [latest edition from Ottawa] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 13 Mo Major G7: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("German Views on Toronto Summit") [debt, EC views on agriculture] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 14 Tu Major G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's visit to Ottawa, 22 June: Canadian Nuclear Submarines") ["The tide may be turning against us in our efforts to sell Trafalgar to the Canadians"] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 14 Tu Major G7: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Briefing meeting for the Toronto Summit") [need "to concoct a coherent and interesting message"] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 14 Tu Major G7: Lawson PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("Toronto Economic Summit: The Prime Minister's speaking note for the opening session") [Lawson's comments on interest rates, US budget deficit, GATT] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 14 Tu Minor G7: Lawson PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("Summit: Speaking notes for use in plenary") [Lawson, Littler drafts - debt problems of the poorest countries, trade and agriculture] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 14 Tu Minor G7: FCO Economic Relations Department minute to Nigel Wicks ("Tokyo Economic Summit: Drugs") [US proposals for "increased anti-drugs collaboration among Summit countries"] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 14 Tu Minor G7: Geoffrey Littler minute to Nigel Wicks ("Tokyo Summit: Draft Communique") [inflation, structural reforms of economies, multilateral trading system, international cooperation; international debt] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 14 Tu Major G7: UKE Washington telegram 1504 to FCO (2355Z) ("White House Press Briefing on Economic Issues at Toronto Summit") ["Policy co-ordination, trade issues and international debt said to be main economic topics"] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 15 We Minor G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's visit to Ottawa, 22 June") [objectives on international security, Canadian defence, trade with Canada, drugs] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 15 We Minor G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's Speech to the Canadian Parliament") [Canada's role in world wars, Gorbachev's policies] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 15 We Minor G7: Chairman HM Customs and Excise letter to Geoffrey Littler ("Toronto Summit: Drugs") ["while we must obviously support the spirit of the initiative, I would counsel some caution"] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 15 We Minor G7: Canadian Sherpa to other Sherpas (Reagan leading informal session) [economic conditions and economic policies over the last seven years] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 15 We Major G7: Jacques Delors letter to Francois Mitterrand (Toronto Summit) [initiative on debt of the poorest countries] [released July 2016]