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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/4408
Former Prime Ministers (Lady Thatcher) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2020 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 164
Any docs withheld? 3
Themes: Conservatism, Conservative Party (organization), Monarchy, Executive, Foreign policy (Western Europe - non-EU), Foreign policy (Central & Eastern Europe), European Union (general), Economic, monetary & political union

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Date Value Title
91 Apr 8 Mo Major MT: UKMIS New York telegram 661 to FCO (0546Z) ("Mrs Thatcher's call on the Secretary-General, 8 April") ["discussion of the Gulf, Arab/Israel and Cyprus"] [released Dec 2018]
91 May 27 Mo Major MT: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Mrs Thatcher: talks with Gorbachev") [preliminary account; Gorbachev appeal for financial support in return for reform] [released Dec 2018]
91 May 29 We Major MT: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("My telno 1095: Mrs Thatcher: talks with Gorbachev") [fuller account from translator; Gorbachev "unyielding on Baltic States"; pleads for financial aid - G7 "must be prepared to pay to safeguard process of worldwide significance"] [released Dec 2018]
91 May 29 We Major MT: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Mrs Thatcher's visit to Moscow") [speeches, dinners, meetings, media] [released Dec 2018]
91 Jun 10 Mo Minor MT: UK High Commissioner Lagos letter to FCO ("Possible lecture by Mrs Thatcher") [approach from Nigerian Minister of Justice] [released Dec 2018]
91 Jun 13 Th Major MT: MT draft speech ("Draft speech to Chicago Council on Foreign Relations: 17th June") ["Second revision second draft"] [released Dec 2018]
91 Jun 18 Tu Major MT: MT speech to the Economic Club of New York (press release) [plus seventh draft] [released Dec 2018]
91 Sep 12 Th Major MT: UKE Peking telegram to FCO ("Visit to China by the Right Honourable Mrs Margaret Thatcher MP, 10-12 September") [MT requested meeting with Zhao Ziyang "not possible"; "some animated exchanges ... frank and friendly atmosphere"] [released Dec 2018]
91 Nov 20 We Major MT: Gus O'Donnell minute for PM Major ("Mrs Thatcher's speech") [phone conversation with Charles Powell] [released Dec 2018]
92 Jun 2 Tu Major MT: UKA Paris record of conversation ("Lunch with Mrs Margaret Thatcher at the Élysée: 2 June") [Mitterrand "visibly enjoyed seeing Mrs Thatcher again ... He looked perky ... relaxed"] [released Dec 2018]
92 Jun 18 Th Major MT: Alex Allen minute for Stephen Wall ("Mrs Thatcher's visit to Taiwan") ["rather ritual protest" from the Chinese] [released Dec 2018]
92 Jun 18 Th Minor MT: Julian Seymour letter to Alex Allen (MT's Frankfurt speech) [enclosing text] [released Dec 2018]
92 Jun 30 Tu Minor MT: MT letter to Prime Minister Major (thanks for his letter on her joining the Lords) [released Dec 2018]
92 Jul 30 Th Major Bosnia: MT letter to Douglas Hurd (detailed analysis and covering letter) ["No one with a conscience can let this go on .... Please do NOT give me a brush-off letter"] [released Dec 2018]
92 Jul 30 Th Major Bosnia: MT letter to Prime Minister Major (encloses her letters to Douglas Hurd) ["I have been distraught about the situation in Bosnia & Croatia for months"] [released Dec 2018]
92 Sep 18 Fr Major MT: UKA Washington fax for Stephen Wall ("Baroness Thatcher: Calls at the White House") [Bush "gave me a large wink" when MT talked of Europe] [released Dec 2018]
92 Sep 19 Sa Minor MT: Debbie Fletcher letter to Alex Allen (MT's CNN speech) [enclosing text] [released Dec 2018]
93 Jan 14 Th Minor MT: Prentice minute for FCO Permanent Under-Secretary ("Lady Thatcher's 1993 Travel Plans") [released Dec 2018]
93 Apr 20 Tu Major MT: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO ("Lady Thatcher's visit to Poland") ["Bosnia and the need to help the democratic reform movement in Russia were her two main themes both in public and private, but no new elements in the Bosnia case"] [released Dec 2018]