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1986 Nov 3 - 1988 Nov 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2181
France (Anglo-French relations: French disruption of UK lamb trade; Anglo-French nuclear defence cooperation; Prime Minister Michel Rocard's environmental initiative) (Part 4)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jan 30
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 339
Any docs withheld? 3

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88 Oct 22 Sa Major France: UKE Paris telegram 1033 to FCO (1223Z) ("My Call on the French Prime Minister: European Defence") [Rocard recognises independence of UK deterrent and UK's good faith in pursuing cooperation] [declassified Jan 2017]
88 May 28 Sa Major France: UKE Paris telegram 526 to FCO (1125Z) ("Call on French Foreign Minister") [Dumas enthusiastic about bilateral relationship, EC economic and monetary issues, Toronto summit] [declassified Jan 2017]
87 May 15 Fr Major France: UKE Paris telegram 494 to FCO (1452Z) ("Farewell Call on President Mitterrand") [worked well with MT on EC issues, defence questions, both countries looking for common positions] [declassified Jan 2017]
87 Mar 12 Th Major France: UKE Paris saving telegram 7 to FCO ("Mitterrand's Press Conference on Foreign Policy: 10 March") [welcomes progress toward INF agreement, tough line on Middle East terrorism, EC issues, third world debt] [declassified Jan 2017]
86 Nov 4 Tu Major France: UKE Paris telegram 1117 to FCO (1403Z) ("Lamb Exports to France") [French assurances that special controls have been lifted] [declassified Jan 2017]
87 Nov 17 Tu Major France: UKE Paris telegram 508 to FCO (1530Z) ("Mrs Chalker's Visit to Paris: 16 September. EC Discussions") [French wish to work for agreement at Copenhagen, future financing, agriculture, budget, taxation] [declassified Jan 2017]
86 Nov 20 Th Major France: Patrick Mayhew minute to Michael Jopling ("French Actions Disrupting UK Lamb Trade") [prospect of retaliation and possibility of action in French courts] [declassified Jan 2017]
86 Nov 5 We Major France: Patrick Mayhew minute to Michael Jopling ("French Actions Disrupting UK Lamb Trade") [regards Jopling's proposal as dangerous, could request EC Commission proceedings] [declassified Jan 2017]
86 Nov 18 Tu Major France: Michael Jopling minute to Patrick Mayhew ("French Actions Disrupting UK Lamb Trade") [possibility of stepping up inspections of apples imports, prospect of EC Court action] [declassified Jan 2017]
86 Nov 4 Tu Major France: Michael Jopling minute to Geoffrey Howe ("French Actions Disrupting UK Lamb Trade") [contracts cancelled, imposition of special customs checks, targetting of French apples imports] [declassified Jan 2017]
86 Nov 21 Fr Major France: Ministry of Agriculture record of conversation (Jopling-Guillaume) [EC agri-monetary package, sheepmeat, scoio-structrual proposals, beef, milk] [declassified Jan 2017]
88 Nov 18 Fr Major France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Environment Initiative by President Mitterrand and M. Rocard") [Rocard said his approach was strictly personal diplomacy, with Mitterrand's endorsement] [declassified Jan 2017]
88 Nov 20 Su Major France: Michel Rocard message to MT (Environment Initiative) [proposals in French] [declassified Jan 2017]
88 Nov 29 Tu Major France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Environment Initiative by President Mitterrand and M. Rocard") [question of how to play things tactically, do not wish to arouse French opposition to UK initiative] [declassified Jan 2017]
88 Jan 19 Tu Major France: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell ("Michel Rocard") [French presidential elections, French economy, EC issues, east-west issues] [declassified Jan 2017]
87 Oct 19 Mo Major France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's Talk with President Mitterrand") [Franco-German discussions on defence, French moving away from isolationism, impact on UK policy] [declassified Jan 2017]
87 Oct 2 Fr Major France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Telephone Call with President Mitterrand") [possible topics: US, German intentions on arms control, defence cooperation, Middle East] [declassified Jan 2017]
87 Oct 21 We Major France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Franco/German Defence Cooperation") [French trying to construct Franco-centric system of European defence, playing games with WEU] [declassified Jan 2017]
87 Oct 22 Th Major France: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS (Franco/German Defence Cooperation) [MT believes French being forced by circumstances to abandon Gaullist policy of national defence, trying to construct alternative system of European defence] [declassified Jan 2017]
87 Oct 23 Fr Major France: Charles Powell record of conversation (Powell-Bujon) [Chirac's diplomatic adviser talking on European defence issues and cohabitation, Franco-German cooperation, NATO, Franco-British cooperation] [declassified Jan 2017]