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PREM19/2697
Germany (Prime Minister's meetings with Chancellor Helmut Kohl in Germany; PM's visits to Germany) (Part 7)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 395
Any docs withheld? 4
Themes: British relations with the Federal Republic of Germany

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86 Dec 16 Tu Minor Germany: No.10 conversation record (MT, Governing Mayor of Berlin) [Situation in Berlin; asylum seekers; draft dodgers; 750th anniversary celebrations; East/West relations; MT found Herr Diepgen "rather over-addicted to the jargon of detente"] [declassified Dec 2016]
87 Jul 7 Tu Major Germany: No.10 letter to FCO (“Prime Minister's Visit to Berlin”) [Kohl reacting 'enthusiastically' to idea of meeting MT in Berlin, postponing Anglo-German bilateral until early in New Year] [declassified Dec 2016]
87 Sep 19 Sa Minor Germany: FCO briefing for MT (IDU Conference Berlin 25 September) [Kohl, Chirac, Ozal, Governing Mayor] [declassified Dec 2016]
87 Sep 21 Mo Major Germany: Charles Powell briefing for MT (“Meeting with M. Chirac”) [Gulf; hostages; Falklands; M. Le Pen; EC budget] [declassified Dec 2016]
87 Sep 21 Mo Major Germany: Charles Powell briefing for MT (“Meeting with Chancellor Kohl”) [Kohl's recent setbacks; areas of disagreement; "It is likely to be a difficult meeting"] [declassified Dec 2016]
87 Sep 21 Mo Major Germany: FCO briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Turkish Prime Minister in Berlin: 24 September") [our aims for the call; bilateral relations; Turkey internal; visits; Turkey/Greece; Cyprus; Turkey/EC; Iran/Iraq] [declassified Dec 2016]
87 Sep 21 Mo Minor Germany: Charles Powell briefing for MT (“Meeting with Governing Mayor of Berlin”) [courtesy call] [declassified Dec 2016]
87 Sep 21 Mo Minor Germany: Charles Powell briefing for MT (“IDU Conference in Berlin”) [programme; possible interaction with Mock, Strauss, Willoch, Holkeri, Seaga; press handling] [declassified Dec 2016]
87 Sep 22 Tu Major Germany: FCO briefing for MT ("IDU Conference in Berlin: Bilateral with Chancellor Kohl") [declassified Dec 2016]
87 Sep 22 Tu Major Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 734 to FCO (0650Z) ("Prime Minister's meeting with Kohl: Berlin, 25 September: the scene in the FRG") [CDU electoral setbacks] [declassified Dec 2016]
87 Sep 22 Tu Major Germany: Cabinet Office minute for No.10 ("Prime Minister's meeting with Chancellor Kohl on 25 September") [EC budget - FCO says "common approach" with the Germans, "true in principle, but less so in practice"] [declassified Dec 2016]
87 Sep 22 Tu Major Germany: Charles Powell briefing for MT (“Meeting with the Turkish Prime Minister”) [Gulf; Cyprus; contracts; EC application; visit] [declassified Dec 2016]
87 Sep 23 We Major Germany: Mallaby briefing for MT (“IDU Conference in Berlin”) [bilateral dialogue on nuclear weapons matters in case Chirac raises it] [declassified Dec 2016]
87 Sep 23 We Minor Germany: FCO briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Turkish Prime Minister in Berlin: 24 September") [military aid to Turkey] [declassified Dec 2016]
87 Sep 26 Sa Major Germany: IDU 3rd Party Leaders Conference conclusions ("The Berlin statement")
87 Oct 28 We Minor Germany: Charles Powell minute for MT (“Meeting with M. Chirac”) [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
87 Oct 29 Th Major Germany: FCO letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's meeting with the French Prime Minister in Berlin on 25 September 1987") [surprised Chirac raised issue of high speed rail and Channel Tunnel with MT] [declassified Dec 2016]
87 Oct 30 Fr Major Germany: Charles Powell minute for MT (“Bilateral meeting with European leaders”) [good case for meeting Chirac - only way to sort out EC financing is with the French; Kohl meeting subsidiary, not generally much to be gained by talking with him bilaterally on EC matters] [declassified Dec 2016]
87 Dec 23 We Minor Germany: No.10 letter to FCO (“Prime Minister: Visit to Germany”) [MT rejects Bullard suggestion of speech to German industrialists in Bonn] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 May 28 Sa Major Germany: Poehl article (“The vision of a European Currency Area”) [annotated by MT] [declassified Dec 2016]