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PREM19/3007
Germany (Visits by Chancellor Helmut Kohl to the UK) (Part 10)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 327
Any docs withheld? 2
Themes: British relations with the Federal Republic of Germany

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86 Nov 20 Th Major Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 991 to FCO (1630Z) (“Call on Chancellor Kohl: 4 December”) [suggests inviting Kohl for a "rather longer and less formal" visit to UK next year, ideally with a royal element; MT: "I would rather NOT at present. Too much on"] [declassified Dec 2016]
86 Nov 26 We Major Germany: No.10 letter to FCO (“Chancellor Kohl”) [MT reluctant to endorse Bullard's idea of "a rather longer and less formal visit" to UK by Kohl during 1987, ideally with a royal element] [declassified Dec 2016]
87 Feb 26 Th Major Germany: No.10 conversation record (1730-1810Z) (MT, Howe) [Howe suggested MT invite Kohl to a working lunch or dinner in coming months; MT reluctant to commit herself at present; look at it again in a month or so] [declassified Dec 2016]
87 Mar 19 Th Minor Germany: No.10 letter to FCO (“Summits with France and Germany in 1987”) [No.10 tentatively offers possible dates - 25 Spt for Germans, 23 Nov for the French] [declassified Dec 2016]
87 Jul 7 Tu Minor Germany: Powell minute for MT (“Meeting with Chancellor Kohl”) [in view of MT-Kohl bilateral scheduled during IDU in September, Germans agree to postone regular Anglo-German Summit until early next year, "I think you will find this satisfactory"; MT: "Very"] [declassified Dec 2016]
87 Nov 13 Fr Major Germany: Powell minute for MT (“Bilaterals with the French and Germans”) [we have managed to stretch the intervals between these summits to very nearly one year, "[b]ut there comes a point when we can postpone them no longer"; end Jan, early Feb 1988, Lancaster House; MT agrees] [declassified Dec 2016]
87 Dec 9 We Major Germany: Powell minute for MT (“Meeting with Chancellor Kohl”) [Germans wish to postpone summit due on 5 Feb 1988 because too close to European Council 11/12th; suggests half day visit from Kohl before then] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jan 20 We Major Germany: No.10 conversation record (Powell, Teltschik) ("Meeting with Chancellor Kohl") [Germans seeks 2 Feb; in "light of recent press comment" very important MT and Kohl should meet; MT agrees] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jan 27 We Major Germany: FCO telegram 54 to UKE Bonn (1600Z) (“European Council: message to Genscher”) [upcoming EC budget discussion] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Feb 1 Mo Major Germany: Powell briefing for MT (“Meeting with Chancellor Kohl”) ["bound to be a difficult meeting" - problems over European Council, press comment that your relations with Kohl are poor; but "we want it to be a difficult meeting for Kohl, not for you"; FCO briefing included] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Feb 1 Mo Major Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 101 to FCO (0940Z) ("Chancellor Kohl's meeting with the Prime Minister on 2 February: Kohl's options") ["no easy way out for Kohl" on EC budget - genuinely working for a deal at Brussels European Council looks best for him] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Feb 1 Mo Major Germany: UKREP Brussels telegram 322 to FCO (1954Z) (“Following for Prime Minister from Secretary of State”) [first day of conclave - Genscher assuring Howe that Germans genuinely seeking EC budget agreement at Brussels] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Feb 2 Tu Major Germany: No.10 conversation record (MT, Kohl) [forthcoming European Council MT said she "was ready to take decisions at Brussels. Indeed she had been ready to do so at Copenhagen", others were not; Agricultural Stabilisers; Agriculture Guidelines; Monetary Reserve; Fourth Resources; Own Resources Ceiling; Structural Funds; UK Abatement; French position; Press handling; East/West relations and defence] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Mar 27 Su Major Germany: Powell minute for MT (“Anglo-German Summit”) [deferring October summit means "risk of giving credence to press reports that you and Chancellor Kohl are at loggerheads"; Powell debates abandoning Anglo-German summits altogether] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jun 28 Tu Minor Germany: No.10 letter to FCO (“Prime Minister's Meeting with Chancellor Kohl”) [MT insists on a decent helicopter for Kohl; other detail] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jul 6 We Major Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 695 to FCO (1644Z) (“Kohl's Visit to Chequers, 9 July: the FRG scene”) ["Kohl's recent international successes, especially at Hanover, not matched on the domestic front" - fiscal policy, CDU leadership discontent] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jul 7 Th Major Germany: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Chancellor Kohl: 9 July") [Anglo-German Relations; Tornado for Japan; EC and International Economic Issues; East/West Relations; Defence and Arms Control; South Africa; Iran/Ira [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jul 7 Th Major Germany: Powell briefing for MT (“Meeting with Chancellor Kohl”) [Anglo-German relations - shared goal of "giving some shine to ... contacts so that they do not appear to be the poor relations of the Franco/German axis"; Tornado for Japan; East/West relations; South Africa; Environment; Agriculture; Debt; Franco/German Relations - in reality of equal importance as Anglo/German] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jul 9 Sa Major Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Kohl at Chequers) [Anglo-German relations; Europe - Delors speech to European Parliament counterproductive and MT intended to say so; German domestic policies; East/West relations; US elections; South Africa; Tornado; lunchtime chat] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jul 13 We Major South Africa: No.10 conversation record (Teltschik call to Charles Powell) ("South Africa") [Kohl following up conversation - keen on emissary to Botha, MT suggests Leutweiler; Kohl plans public appeal for release of Mandela, MT thinks such things best done privately] [declassified Dec 2017]