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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3056
Italy (Anglo-Italian Summits) (Part 4)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 245
Any docs withheld? No

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86 Dec 2 Tue Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Italian Summit") [Craxi agrees 11 Feb in London; Powell "Oh dear!"] [declassified Jul 2017]
87 Feb 6 Fri Italy: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Anglo-Italian Summit") [submits briefing - "None of it is very riveting ... Anglo-Italian relations are in good shape"] [declassified Jul 2017]
87 Feb 10 Tue Italy: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Anglo-Italian Summit") [arrangements, including seating plan for lunch ("We are proposing to put Craxi opposite you, in the belief that you will have had enough of him by then")] [declassified Jul 2017]
87 Feb 10 Tue Italy: Ingham minute for MT ("Italian Press Conference") [likely topics, possible difficulties] [declassified Jul 2017]
87 Feb 11 Wed Italy: No.10 conversation record (MT-Italian PM Craxi tête-à-tête; joined later by FM Andreotti, Howe) [situation in Italy; SDI; East/West; Terrorism; Libya; Lebanon; Ferruzzi bid for British Sugar; EC budget] [declassified Jul 2017]
87 Feb 11 Wed Italy: No.10 conversation record (MT-Italian Summit plenary session - MT, Craxi, Andreotti, Howe, Scalfaro, Pandolfi, etc) [foreign affairs; terrorism; agriculture; trade and industry; Cossiga state visit] [declassified Jul 2017]
87 Feb 12 Thu Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Italian Summit in London: Italian press reaction") [emphasis on the positive; "Craxi has gained in stature from the summit and Anglo-Italian relations have benefited"] [declassified Jul 2017]
87 Feb 12 Thu Italy: Italiam PM Craxi letter to MT (Anglo-Italian Summit) [thanks] [declassified Jul 2017]
88 Apr 19 Tue Italy: Italiam PM De Mita letter to MT (her letter of congratulations on becoming PM) [thanks] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Jan 24 Tue Italy: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Possible visit of the Italian Prime Minister") [MT offers 26 Apr, talks in morning then lunch] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Jan 24 Tue Italy: FCO letter to Charles Powell ("Call on the Prime Minister by the President of the Italian Senate: 20 June") [Spadolini; possible successor as President to Cossiga; topics for meeting] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Jun 16 Fri Italy: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Meeting with the President of the Italian Senate" - Spadolini) ["Quite frankly, it doesn't matter what you discuss as long as he is seen to have a meeting with you!"] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Nov 29 Wed Italy: Charles Powell conversation record (CDP-Italian Ambassador) [next summit, plus possible brief meeting with Andreotti prior to Italian EC Presidency] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Jan 15 Mon Italy: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Anglo-Italian Summit: London, 23 February 1990") [arrangements] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 8 Thu Italy: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Anglo-Italian Summit: London, 23 February 1990") [attendance, timings] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 14 Wed Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("UK/Italian Summit, 23 February: agenda issues") [main international and bilaterial issues for discussion] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 17 Sat Italy: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Anglo-Italian Summit: Interpreter" - approves their choice of Mrs Perrini) ["She will not be the only lady present who (in your words) is 'in her sixties but still alert'"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 19 Mon Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("The Andreotti Government on the eve of the summit") ["increasingly unsettled ... now accepts that German unification is inevitable but its likely pace and implications alarm him"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 21 Wed Italy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Anglo-Italian Summit, 23 February") [possible common ground emerging on Germany, balancing Italy's "total euro-enthusiasm"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 21 Wed Italy: FCO letter to Charles Powell ("Anglo-Italian Summit: 23 February") [topics and programme for meeting] [declassified Jul 2017]