RISC26/1
20 NOV 1981
Matlaby Plannig Staff
INLES
CONFIDENTIAL
Secretary of State's Overseas Visits and Visitors:
1982
The Secretary of State has seen your submissions of
6 and 16 October. His views are as follows:
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Lord Carrington does not wish to make major overseas journeys between 18 and 24 January (which would immediately precede a Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels and the long ASEAN trip); and in the period between his attendance at the United Nations General Assembly (22 to 25 September approximately) and the Party Conference (5-8 October).
Lord Carrington has agreed that the Lord Privy Seal should visit the Far East between 2 and 16 January, and that Mr Hurd should go to South Asia from 9 to 20 January. He would therefore not wish to be out of the country at the same time, and does not propose to make a major overseas visit before the ASEAN tour.
Lord Carrington does not wish to visit Portugal early in 1982. He had talks with the Portuguese Foreign Minister on 28 October: and the Lord Privy Seal visited Portugal this month. The Secretary of State will in due course wish to consider visiting Portugal in the second half of 1982.
He agrees that time should be made available before Easter for a bilateral meeting with the French Foreign Minister: and that visits to Jordan, Syria and Israel should be fitted into the first four months of next year. One country might be visited briefly on the way to Zimbabwe and Kenya in February; and the other two (presumably including Israel) in April.
He would like to visit the United States from about 3 to 7 May. He will open the
Interior Design Exhibition in Washington on
CONFIDENTIAL
/6 May
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.