PREM19/4155
France (French foreign policy) (Part 2)

Date	Value	Title
89 Apr 4 Tu	Major	France: UKE Rome telegram 233 to FCO (1450Z) (“Italo-French Summit, Siciliy, 30 March”) [mainly EC issues, agreeing on aim of single currency and central bank, with account taken of British reservations] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Apr 20 Th	Minor	France: UKE Paris telegram 518 to FCO (1817Z) (“Franco-German Summit”) [53rd Franco-German Summit, mainly EC, defence and bilateral topics] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Apr 22 Sa	Major	France: UKE Paris telegram 531 to FCO (1105Z) (“Franco-German Summit: SNF and EMU”) ["French anxious to help Chancellor Kohl over SNF decisions" - French "struck by the deterioration of Kohl's position"; EMU, Delors Report] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 May 19 Fr	Minor	France: UKE Paris telegram 655 to FCO (1635Z) (“President Mitterrand's Press conference: East/West and Defence Issues”) [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Jun 15 Th	Minor	France: UKE Warsaw telegram 362 to FCO (1500Z) (“Visit of President Mitterrand to Poland”) [wide ranging plan for French assistance published during visit; clever packaging] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Jun 19 Mo	Minor	France: UKE Warsaw telegram 367 to FCO (1415Z) (“Mitterrand's Visit to Poland, 14-16 June”) [visit well received] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Oct 6 Fr	Major	France: UKE Rome telegram 623 to FCO (1645Z) (“Franco-Italian Summit, Venice, 5 October”) [Mitterrand and Andreotti agree to push for IGC by end of 1990] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Nov 22 We	Major	France: UKE The Hague telegram 482 to FCO (1030Z) (“Visit to the Netherlands by President Mitterrand”) [discussions mainly on Eastern Europe, EMU, Social Europe - Mitterrand pushing idea for European Development Bank] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Dec 7 Th	Minor	France: UKE Moscow telegram 2048 to FCO (1345Z) (“Soviet Union/France - President Mitterrand's Visit to Kiev”) [press accounts; re: Germany, Gorbachev said "reunification is not a question for now"] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Dec 11 Mo	Minor	France: UKE Paris telegram 1640 to FCO (1820Z) (“French Foreign Policy: Mitterrand TV Interview, 10 December”) [Mitterrand expresses satisfaction but not triumphalism at outcome of Strasbourg European Council; measured approach to German unification - "the Germans should remember the origins of present frontiers"] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Dec 22 Fr	Major	France: UKE East Berlin telegram 501 to FCO (1900Z) (“Visit by President Mitterrand to East Berlin and the GDR: 20-22 December”) ["raises France's profile as a major player in the eventual solution of the German question"; French seem to expect GDR to survive until at least 1994] [declassified Jul 2018]
90 Jan 6 Sa	Minor	France: UKE Paris telegram 9 to FCO (1202Z) (“France-FRG: Mitterrand-Kohl meeting”) [media reports suggests amiable but insubstantial meeting] [declassified Jul 2018]
90 Feb 6 Tu	Major	France: UKE Dublin telegram 99 to FCO (1830Z) (“France-US: Dumas-Baker meeting”) [dawn breakfast meeting; German unification accepted as inevitable, agreed on necessity for orderly process and consultation with the Four Powers] [declassified Jul 2018]
90 Feb 21 We	Major	France: UKA Paris despatch (“Economic Liberalism: Where Do the French Stand?”) [protectionism in retreat since 1983, although French will not "evolve beyond the soft end of liberalism"] [declassified Jul 2018]
90 Apr 26 Th	Minor	France: UKE Paris telegram 469 to FCO (1133Z) (“Visit by President Mitterrand to Moscow”) [confirmed that he will visit at end of May] [declassified Jul 2018]
90 May 28 Mo	Major	France: UKE Paris telegram 618 to FCO (1818Z) (“Mitterrand's Visit to Moscow, 25 May”) [Quai confirms majority of talks devoted to Germany, especially German membership of NATO "on which Gorbachev maintained a very tough line", "less rigid, but equally emotional, on Lithuania"] [declassified Jul 2018]
90 May 29 Tu	Major	France: FCO telegram 349 to UKE Paris (2028Z) (“Secretary of State's conversation record with French Foreign Minister”) ["Dumas describes Russians as very edgy over Germany"; "Poles still unhappy about border treaty"] [declassified Jul 2018]
90 May 30 We	Major	France: President Mitterrand message to MT (his visit to the Soviet Union) [German unification took up much of the time; "Gorbachev's hostility to a united Germany's membership of NATO ... firm and determined"] [declassified Jul 2018]
90 Oct 11 Th	Minor	France: UKE Paris telegram 1225 to FCO (1841Z) (“French EC Policy: Debate in the National Assembly”) ["Genuine federalists in a minority"; RPR favours a parallel currency, but majority favour a single currency] [declassified Jul 2018]
91 Mar 15 Fr	Major	France: UKE Paris telegram 270 to FCO (1702Z) (“Mitterrand-Bush Summit, Martinique, 14 March”) ["Élysée regard this as an exceptionally successful meeting", Bush ready to be flexible and hold together Gulf alliance post war] [declassified Jul 2018]