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Falklands: State Department record of telephone conversation (2319–0009Z) (Haig, Costa Mendez) [Falkland Islands Crisis] [published 2015]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Foreign Relations of the United States 1981-89 (Volume XIII) Conflict in the South Atlantic (2015) p211
Editorial comments:

2319Z = 0019 BST, ending an hour later. Accordingly this item is dated 12 April when listed in Zulu time. Excerpt from Foreign Relations of the United States 1981-89 (Volume XIII) Conflict in the South Atlantic (2015). Other documents from this volume can be seen here. Read the whole volume.

Published in 2015, but date of declassification unknown. The document may have been available for some time before inclusion in this volume.

The Argentine record of the conversation can be read here.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 8pp
Themes: British relations with the US, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (Americas excluding USA), Foreign policy (International organizations), Defence (Falklands)