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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]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/3056 f153
Editorial comments:

1205-1300 then lunch. The plenary was precdeed by a tete a tete between the PMs (of which there is a separate record on this site). A draft of the memcon follows the finished version, showibg that it was partly prepared by officials outside No.10 then submitted for final editing by Powell. Read other documents selected from this file. The full file from which this item is taken can be seen here - PREM19-3056

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 7pp
Themes: Economic policy - theory and process, Agriculture, Trade, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Foreign policy (Western Europe - non-EU), Foreign policy (Middle East), European Union Budget, Defence (arms control), Terrorism, Charles Powell minutes, British relations with Italy, MT's meetings as PM