Overview of Anglo-French summit

Title

Overview of Anglo-French summit

Genre

News report; Press conference

TX Date

27 Feb 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:02:36

Description

Tim Marshall reports from Paris for the AM programme on a news conference by UK PM Margaret Thatcher and President Francois Mitterrand after an Anglo-French summit. Includes excerpts of Thatcher speaking on not prosecuting inciters of murder (following issuing of fatwa on Salman Rushdie and decision of France to do so) and on reform in Eastern Europe and need to maintain defence.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; Tim Marshall

Keywords

Books; Authors; UK; International relations; France; Homicide; Defence; Political reform; Nuclear weapons; Francois Mitterrand; Novels; NATO; Summits (meetings); Paris; Eastern Europe; Salman Rushdie; The Satanic Verses; Controversial literature; Fatwa

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