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1982 Sep 21 - 1984 Apr 18
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1242
France (Prime Minister's visits to France; meetings with President Mitterrand; Anglo-French Summits) (Part 3)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 370
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82 Nov 4 Th Major France: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mitterrand) [Anglo/French Summit, Paris, 4/5 November 1982: the Falklands; organisation of the Summit; pipeline/US sanctions; Franco/German talks on security questions; world economic situation] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 4 Th Major France: No.10 record of conversation (UK/French Summit, Paris, 4/5 November 1982) [Armstrong, Attali: Siberian pipeline; Iran/Iraq; MT tour of Far East; UK/French contacts at officials level; European Summit; new Spanish government; Economic Summit] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 4 Th Major France: No.10 minute to MT ("Press Conference") [UK/French Summit, Paris, 4/5 November 1982: UN Falklands debate; EC Budget; bilateral issues] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 5 Fr Major France: Department of Trade record of conversation (UK/French Summit, Paris, 4-5 November 1982) [Lord Cockfield, Michel Jobert] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 5 Fr Major France: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mitterrand) [UK/French Summit, Paris, 4-5 November: Pipeline/US sanctions; protectionism; UK contribution to EC Budget; UK/French dialogue at officials level; Denmark/common fisheries policy; CAP; Spanish accession to EC; terrorism; UN Law of the Sea Convention] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 5 Fr Major France: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mitterrand, Pym, Howe, Jenkin, Cockfield, Walker, Jobert, Chevenement, Cheysson, Delors, Cresson) ["Anglo/French Summit: Paris: 4/5 November 1982 Plenary Session"] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 8 Mo Major France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO (UK/French Summit, Paris, 4-5 November 1982) [summary of proceedings: "An unspectacular but broadly satisfactory meeting"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 6 Tu Major France: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mitterrand) [EC Budget: MT confronts Mitterrand over French stance at last EC Council, taken "without any warning"; milk levy; financial burden sharing; further talks on settling Budget problem; EC enlargement; Lebanon; UK relations with US/agricultural imports] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 14 We Major France: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo-French Summit: Autumn 1984") [possible dates] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 4 We Major France: No.10 minute to MT ("President Mitterrand") [possible meeting in Paris in advance of European Council meeting in March] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 5 Th Major France: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Bilateral Visits Overseas by the Prime Minister in 1984") [provisional schedule including UK/French Summit and Franco-British Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 5 Th Major France: Howe minute to MT ("Possible Meeting with President Mitterrand") ["he cannot bring... [EC] negotiations to a successful conclusion without our agreement... An informal discussion... would be an excellent opportunity to get... points across to him" ; timing of meeting; content of talks] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 5 Th Major France: Cabinet Office record of conversation (possible meeting with President Mitterrand) [Armstrong, Attali call: proposed dates for meeting in Paris; agenda; Dumas visit to London; rearrangement of Summit dates] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 6 Fr Major France: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("Meeting between the Prime Minister and President Mitterrand") [Attali, Armstrong: arrangements for Paris, 23 Jan] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 10 Tu Major France: Ingham minute to MT, Coles ("Mitterrand meeting - Media") [MT visit to Paris, 23 Jan: timing of visit's annoucement to the press, and line to take] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 11 We Major France: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Meeting between the Prime Minister and President Mitterrand") [Paris, 23 January: timing of press announcment of MT visit] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 11 We Major France: No.10 letter to Direct of Barclays Bank, Paris ("Franco-British Chamber of Commerce and Industry") [reply to request for MT to meet with Franco-British Chamber of Commerce during next UK/French summit talks] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 13 Fr Major France: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office ("Prime Minister's Visit to Paris") [arrangements for meeting with Mitterand on 23 January] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 14 Sa Major France: President Reagan letter to MT (relations with the Soviet Union) [included in briefing for MT meeting with Mitterand in Paris on 23 January] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 16 Mo Major France: No.10 minute to MT ("France") [statistics on economic development in France, in advance of MT meeting with Mitterand in Paris on 23 January] [declassified Jan 2014]