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Falklands: Falklands Governor Rex Hunt despatch to Carrington ("Visit of the Honourable Nicholas Ridley, M.P. Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, to the Falkland Islands: 22-29 November, 1980") [account of Ridley's second visit] [declassified 2012]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: ALW 040/325/12. Documents released to the Margaret Thatcher Foundation per FOI request 0181-12.
Editorial comments:

This document was derived from the Private Office files of Lord Carrington, as prepared for submission to the Franks Inquiry. The originals are due to be accessioned in due course by TNA where they will be found within FCO archives. Copied also to DEFE25/442 f200, file of the Chief of Defence Staff.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 7pp
Themes: Defence (Falklands)