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Falklands: NSC briefing for President Reagan ("Suggested Talking Points for Telephone Call to President Galtieri") ["Maggie is a very determined woman .... The use of force by anyone will be met by force on her part"] [published 2015]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Foreign Relations of the United States 1981-89 (Volume XIII) Conflict in the South Atlantic (2015) p71
Editorial comments:

Undated; plainly prepared ahead of the call on 1 April. No record of the call itself has yet surfaced from US archives. 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.

Importance ranking: Key
Word count: 2pp
Themes: Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (Americas excluding USA), Defence (Falklands), British relations with the US