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1984 Dec 13 - 1985 Mar 21
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1496
Foreign Policy (Prime Minister's visit to South-East Asia, April 1985) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 334
Any docs withheld? 2

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85 Feb 27 We Major Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Visit to South East Asia: Briefing") [advice on briefing format] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 1 Fr Major Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Asia") [revised programme] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 6 We Major Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("South East Asia: Speeches") [topics; initial drafts] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 8 Fr Major Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to S.E. Asia: Speeches") [criticism of FCO drafts; preliminary work by No.10] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 11 Mo Major Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Prime Minister's Speech on World Economic Issues") [No.10 synopsis, to serve as basis for drafts of speeches, for MT tour of South East Asia] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 11 Mo Minor Foreign Policy: Ex-Services' Association of Singapore letter to No.10 (Prime Minister's Visit to Singapore) [expression of disappointment that MT's schedule unable to allow time for attending memorial ceremony] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 14 Th Major Foreign Policy: No.10 minute to Department of Trade and Industry (Anglo-Indonesian Coporation) [Chairman's correspondence with MT, regarding Corporation's problems establishina a new plantation in Indonesia] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 14 Th Minor Foreign Policy: Charles Powell to Master of Churchill College, Cambridge (visit to Brunei) [MT will try to ask Sultan of Brunei for donation to Archive Centre when she meets with him] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 15 Fr Major Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Lee Kuan Yew") [recollections of first meeting with MT] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 16 Sa Major Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to South East Asia") [speeches: latest drafts] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 22 Fr Major Foreign Policy: Ridley minute to MT ("Civil Aviation: Malaysia and Singapore") [MT concerned about issues raised by Ridley; requests urgent meeting to try to resolve them in advance of her visit] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 22 Fr Major Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to South East Asia: Speeches") [latest drafts] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 25 Mo Major Foreign Policy: MT letter to President of the Taylor Woodrow Group (railway contracts in Malaysia for UK firms) [problems arising from air services dispute; MT agrees to raise matter during her visit to Malaysia] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 25 Mo Major Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Civil Aviation: Malaysia and Singapore") [differences between the two cases, key points and negotiation strategy advice] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 25 Mo Major Foreign Policy: Howe minute to MT ("Air Services to South-East Asia") [Malaysian taxation dispute with BA threatening to overcloud MT visit] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 26 Tu Major Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Far East Speeches") [meeting to discuss latest drafts] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 26 Tu Major Foreign Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Briefing Meeting for Far East Visit: 4.00 pm Wednesday 3 April") [attendees] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 26 Tu Major Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ridley, Channon, Timothy Renton ) ["Civil Aviation: Malaysia and Singapore"; MT "particularly keen that her visit to Malaysia should be a success"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 27 We Major Foreign Policy: Lord Avebury letter to MT (human rights abuses committed by the Indonesian Government) [representation on behalf of the Parliamentary Human Rights Group] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 28 Th Major Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's and Mr Thatcher's Visit to Asia: Programme") [revised] [released Dec 2014]