Margaret Thatcher after economic summit in Tokyo

Title

Margaret Thatcher after economic summit in Tokyo

Genre

Speech

TX Date

6 May 1986

Year of production

1986

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Duration

00:04:16

Description

UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher gives a speech at the end of the world economic summit in Tokyo attended by herself, Nigel Lawson and Geoffrey Howe. She says the summit was a success and outlines the subjects discussed, including nuclear safety, terrorism and the sponsorship of terrorism, economic policy, protectionism, food surpluses and farming subsidies. She looks forward to the GATT negotiations in September.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher

Keywords

Agriculture; Economics; Terrorism; International relations; Nuclear energy; Economic policy; Geoffrey Howe; Japan; Nigel Lawson; Nuclear safety; Summits (meetings); Tokyo; Food production; GATT

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