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PREM19/3410
Italy (Visits by the Prime Minister to Rome: Anglo-Italian Summits in Italy) (Part 4)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Secret
Page count: 204
Any docs withheld? 2
Themes: British relations with Italy

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88 Mar 28 Mo Minor Italy: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Anglo-Italian Summit, 20 April - Ministerial Participation") [keep options open till Easter] [declassified Jul 2017]
88 Apr 5 Tu Minor Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Italian Summit") [Easter holiday has not produced a new Italian government; may need to postpone April 20 Lake Maggiore summit] [declassified Jul 2017]
88 Sep 19 Mo Major Italy: Sir Patrick Wright letter to Sir Robin Butler ("Anglo-Italian Summit: 21 October") [overview and objectives; briefing] [declassified Jul 2017]
88 Oct 1 Sa Major Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Italian Summit: Briefing") [Bruges speech sent to De Mita; "The PM's pragmatic approach gains a certain understanding, if not sympathy here"] [declassified Jul 2017]
88 Oct 14 Fr Minor Italy: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Anglo-Italian Summit") [briefing enclosed - "Actually there is not much in it and the Summit is largely a formality"] [declassified Jul 2017]
88 Oct 18 Tu Major Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("UK/Italian Summit, 21 October: scene setting") [De Mita proving more effective as PM than many expected; FM Andreotti still the key figure in foreign policy] [declassified Jul 2017]
88 Oct 18 Tu Major Italy: FCO letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Italian Summit, 21 October") [additional material] [declassified Jul 2017]
88 Oct 20 Th Minor Italy: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Anglo-Italian Summit") ["De Mita will be feeling pleased with himself and much more confident than when you met him in Toronto in June (whether he will make much more sense is another matter"] [declassified Jul 2017]
88 Oct 21 Fr Major Italy: Charles Powell conversation record (MT-De Mita, Howe and Andreotti joining later) [Italian economy; E/W relations; Conference on Human Rights; Tornado for Jordan; Libya; the Gulf; EC] [declassified Jul 2017]
88 Oct 21 Fr Major Italy: Home Office conversation record (Hurd-Italian Minister of the Interior, plus officials) [drugs, terrorism, immigration and free movement, Hurd visit to Rome, extradition] [declassified Jul 2017]
88 Oct 24 Mo Minor Italy: MT letter to Italian PM De Mita (Anglo-Italian Summit, 21 October) [thanks] [declassified Jul 2017]
88 Oct 24 Mo Minor Italy: MT letter to HMA Rome (Anglo-Italian Summit, 21 October) [thanks; "I hope you don't think I was too firm at the press conference in setting out my views on Europe"] [declassified Jul 2017]
91 Nov 27 We Major Italy: Stephen Wall conversation record (Major-Andreotti) [EC issues; Italian internal politics (Andreotti saw "strong signs of people wearying of the existing political system"); Yugoslavia; Libya] [declassified Jul 2017]