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Personal and party papers, Cambridge

Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 116 to FCO (1500Z) ("South Georgia") [Costa Mendez message to Carrington: "the present situation is the direct result of the persistent lack of recognition [by UK of Argentine claim to Malvinas]" - MT copy] [released 2013]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR 1/20/3/2 f26
Editorial comments:

1500. There is an unmarked copy of this telegram in PREM19/657, originally filed on PREM19/613.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 2pp
Themes: Defence (Falklands)