City of London seminar in Kuwait, 2-4 December 1972

This file concerns the City of London Seminar in Kuwait, promoting British financial services to Kuwaiti investors. It contains a copy of the programme of events containing profiles of the speakers in attendance in English and Arabic, copies of HM Ambassador to Kuwait A J Wilton’s despatch concerning the Seminar and correspondence relating to:

• The success of the enterprise and interest in similar events in other countries
• Amendments to Wilton’s despatch
• Proposals for a similar even in Jakarta
• The unresolved dispute between the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) concerning the question of reimbursing the Committee on Invisible Exports for the printing costs of copies of the lectures given at the Seminar