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1986 Nov 3 - 1987 Nov 27
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2172
Foreign Policy (East/West relations) (Part 7)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Secret and Personal
Page count: 300
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87 Jan 30 Fr Key Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Percy Cradock, Charles Powell) ["Foreign Policy": MT sceptical of Gorbachev's plans for reform; concern that US still apparently working for elimination of strategic nuclear weapons; Afghanistan; China; Lebanon - no deals for hostage release] [released July 2016]
87 Nov 27 Fr Major Cold War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("United States/Soviet Summit") [possible MT message to Reagan in advance; fear of a replay of Reykjavik; message to Gorbachev rejected] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Nov 19 Th Major Cold War: Charles Powell record of conversation (CDP-Soviet diplomat Kossov) [possible Gorbachev stopover in Britain en route to Washington Summit; merits of RAF Brize Norton as venue] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Feb 26 Fr Major Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 492 to FCO (1790Z) ("Possible Visit to the US by the PM") [Acland counsels Powell; "a visit may not be essential"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Apr 28 Th Major France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Possible Visit to London by former President Giscard d'Estaing") [wishes to discuss EMU with MT, but his diary is filling up; MT - "Let it fill right up"] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 Nov 3 Mo Major Foreign Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 923 to FCO (1655Z) ("Kohl Interview with Die Welt") [disarmament issues] [released July 2016]
86 Nov 3 Mo Major Foreign Policy: UKE Washington letter to FCO ("Shultz's San Francisco Speech: 31 October") [Reykjavik summit/arms control; next steps: "distinctly worrying"] [released July 2016]
86 Nov 5 We Major Foreign Policy: UKDEL NATO letter to No.10 (UK Security Policy Post-Reykjavik) [thoughts on the changing nature of US/Western European relations] [released July 2016]
86 Nov 10 Mo Major Foreign Policy: FCO telegram 213 to UKDEL NATO (1215Z) ("North Atlantic Council Ministerial, 11-12 December: Communique") [Reykjavik; arms control; CSCE; Afghanistan; international terrorism] [released July 2016]
86 Nov 10 Mo Major Foreign Policy: Charles Powell note to MT ('Time' magazine: President Reagan's Account of Reykjavik) [MT: "very worrying"] [released July 2016]
86 Nov 12 We Major Foreign Policy: FCO telegram 566 to UKE Bonn (1500Z) ("European Consultations Post Reykjavik") ["off-the-record brain-storming session before the WEU Ministerial meeting"] [released July 2016]
86 Nov 13 Th Major Foreign Policy: John Stanley PS letter to No.10 ("PQ by Mr Beith, 4th November") [apologies for failure to note Charles Powell's amendment to draft reply on arms control/Reykjavik] [released July 2016]
86 Nov 14 Fr Major Foreign Policy: UKE Luxembourg record of conversation (0100Z) (Younger, Genscher, Andreotti, Spandolini, Giraud, Woerner, Chalker, Van den Broek, Van Eekelen, Tindemans, Bosson) ["WEU Ministerial Meeting: European Security Post Reykjavik"] [released July 2016]
86 Nov 18 Tu Major Foreign Policy: Charles Powell note to MT (the new generation of Leadership in the USSR and its impact on East/West relations) [copy of a speech by French Foreign Minister, in advance of MT's meeting with him] [released July 2016]
86 Nov 24 Mo Major Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1397 to FCO (1045Z) ("Netherlands Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow 20-22 November") [summary of main points from van den Broek briefing] [released July 2016]
86 Dec 1 Mo Major Foreign Policy: UKE The Hague telegram 654 to FCO (0925Z) ("Visit of Dutch Prime Minister and Foreign Minister to Moscow") [reform; human rights; trade; SDI] [released July 2016]
86 Dec 9 Tu Major Foreign Policy: FCO record of conversation (1030Z) (Howe, Shultz, Genscher, Raimond) ["Quadripartite Ministerial: Chevening: 9 December: CSCE": human rights] [released July 2016]
87 Jan 9 Fr Major Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 32 to FCO (2340Z) ("US/Soviet Relations") ["in advance of Mr Renton's visit to Moscow.... a summary of the state of play on non-arms control issues"] [released July 2016]
87 Jan 20 Tu Major Foreign Policy: Cabinet Office note to No.10 (Moscow-Washington Hotline Upgrade) [note on the 1986 upgrade] [released July 2016]
87 Jan 27 Tu Major Foreign Policy: George Walden minute to Howe ("US/Soviet Relations: Congressional Opinion") [report on "second in the series of teach-ins for US Congressmen... sponsored by the Aspen Institute" & on private dinner with Kissinger] [released July 2016]