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1988 May 31 - 1989 Aug 23
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2816
Prime Minister's Tours Abroad (Prime Minister's visit to Paris to attend the G7 Summit, July 1989: administrative arrangements)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 169
Any docs withheld? 4

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88 Jun 1 We Major G7: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Economic Summit: 1989") [Attali phone call - French seeking 14 July date for Paris Summit "for obvious historical reasons"; MT disposed to agree] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jun 7 We Minor G7: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Paris Bicentenary Celebrations") [if MT were the only leader not to attend the ceremony "her absence would be very conspicuous"] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jun 16 Fr Major G7: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Bicentenary of the French Revolution") [MT views - take joint line with Bush on Trocadero ceremony; list of bilaterals] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jun 27 Tu Minor G7: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Bicentenary of the French Revolution") [MT preferences on bilaterals, arrangements for arrival, interpreters] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jun 27 Tu Major G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Paris Economic Summit: Bicentennary") [attendance at 13 July events commemorating 1789 revolution (MT opts to take common stance with Bush), bilaterals] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jul 4 Tu Minor G7: FCO minute to Charles Powell ("Paris Bicentenary Celebrations: Gifts") ["the main recommendation is for a suitably British antiquarian book on the French Revolution"; MT agrees first edition of Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jul 12 We Minor G7: No.10 briefing ("Programme for French Bicentenary and Economic Summit") [as at 12 July, plus earlier versions] [released Dec 2016]