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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3004
Germany (Prime Minister's meeting with Lothar de Maizière, Prime Minister of the Germany Democratic Republic, June 1990)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 40
Any docs withheld? 5
Themes: British relations with the US, British relations with the Soviet Union, British relations with the Federal Republic of Germany, German unification, 1989-90, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Foreign policy (Western Europe - non-EU), Foreign policy (Central & Eastern Europe), Defence (general)

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Date Value Title
90 Jun 10 Su Minor Germany: No.10 letter to FCO (“Proposed Visit by GDR Prime Minister”) [appointment made for 27 June] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Jun 13 We Major Germany: No.10 letter to FCO (“East Germany”) [message from President Bush (T125/90), 12 Jun, asking MT's thoughts] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Jun 16 Sa Major Germany: Powell minute for MT (message to President Bush) [draft reply to his message, opportunity to make some useful points about NATO summit] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Jun 17 Su Minor Germany: No.10 letter to FCO (“message to President Bush”) [MT to Bush, 17 Jun, T126C/90)] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Jun 25 Mo Major Germany: Powell briefing for MT (“Meeting with the GDR Prime Minister”) ["The basic problem with de Maizière is that he has some fairly daft ideas about European security"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Jun 26 Tu Minor Germany: FCO letter to No.10 (“Call on the Prime Minister by GDR Prime Minister, 27 June, 1115”) [Angela Merkel visits No.10 in his entourage] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Jun 26 Tu Major Germany: UKE East Berlin telegram 411 to FCO (1400Z) (“Visit of de Maizière: 26-27 June”) ["Scene-setter for the visit"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Jun 27 We Major Germany: No.10 conversation record (1015Z-1120Z) (MT, de Maizière) [de Maizière noted "some feeling that the FRG was patronising and trying to tell people in the East how to run things"; MT replied that "she herself quite often had to stand up to Chancellor Kohl and stop him trying to bulldoze his point of view through"] [declassified Dec 2016]