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PS/PUS

CONFIDENTIAL

cc:

Sir E Youde

All DUSSS

Second copy for PS/PUS

Mr Du Boulay

Mr Fergusson Mr Donald

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Mr J Moberly

PRIME MINISTER'S AND SECRETARY OF STATE'S VISITS 1931

1. For discussion at the DUSS' meeting tomorrow I attach:

List of fixed and proposed outward visits

Ditto for inward visits

Explanatory notes on some of the proposals.

2. As a focus for discussion, I have divided the proposals from departments and Under-Secretaries into priorities and others. I have mostly been guided by the emphasis in the proposals.

3.

Where no time of year has been suggested it will be desirable to go for January June because of the Presidency in July

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December.

The plans for State (and equivalent) visits-not listed in the attachments are:

President in March; Saudi King in June;

Inward: Nigerian

Philippines President in November.

Outward: Norway in May; Canada 1 July; Australia CHGM September-

October; New Zealand October; Sri Lanka October.

There is also a plan to invite the Ruler of Kuwait in late 1981; the status of visit is under consideration.

5. The following regular bilateral summits are planned

Anglo-German

Anglo-French

London May and Bonn October (S of S may go on London June

to Berlin)

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Anglo-Italian

London May, Rome November

6. The Prime Minister's commitments, if all the priority proposals were approved, would perhaps be tolerable. The Secretary of State's schedule in July-December looks suitably light. The problem in his earlier schedule will be to find room for visits to the Gulf and to Africa as well as the one already planned in March/April to Hong Kong, China and Japan. If one of these 3 has to be delayed or curtailed, it should perhaps be the African trip. Although the Nigerians have teen told that Lord Carrington is thinking of a visit in early 1981. might Nigeria not be delayed in view of the invitation to President Shagari to come on a state visit in March and the LPS's visit in December 1980: and Ghana because President Limann is coming early in 1981; and Zimbabwe if the proposal to invite Mugabe is accepted?

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