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Subject: Foreign policy (Middle East). Date range: 28 Nov 1990 – 31 Dec 1991. Document type: Declassified documents.

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PDF 90 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Powell letter to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: President Bush's letter to the PM") [revised draft approved] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Gulf War: MOD letter to No.10 ("Royal visits to the Armed Forces") ["The Defence Secretary would see value in a visit from a member of the Royal Family to the Gulf...He liked the idea of the Prince of Wales"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Cabinet Office briefing for PM ("OPD(G): 12 December") [BW Immunisation; current international situation; media handling; advice to British communities in war risk countries; British Embassy in Kuwait] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Powell briefing for PM ("Meetings on the Gulf") [the position of the Israelis and the likeliness of an Isareli pre-emptive attack on Iraqi's missiles and chemical arsenal] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO minute for PM ("British Embassy in Kuwait") ["I believe, however, that the time has come to withdraw Mr Weston and Mr Banks"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: George Bush meeting with Israeli PM (Yitzhak Shamir) (record of conversation) [declassified 1999]
PDF 90 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: MOD letter to Powell ("Operation Granby") [operational planning for Operation Granby] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: ("Iraq/Kuwait") [UK position paper] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Powell minute for PM (meeting with Mr. Kinnock) ["the question is whether you would prefer to do it before or after Christmas"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Cabinet Office briefing for PM ("OPD(G): 13 December") [BW immunisation; implications of Iraqi partial withdrawal from Kuwait; implications of a total Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait; Gulf crisis: distribution of respirators to civilians"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Powell briefing for PM ("Meeting on the Gulf") [anthrax immunisation; respirators to British civilians; implications of partial or total Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait;] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Powell note for FCO ("the Gulf") ["further message to the Prime Minister from President Bush on the Gulf"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Powell note for FCO ("Gulf") [tentative arrangements for the Prime Minister's meeting with the Leader of the Opposition on 17 December] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Powell note for PM ("Gulf: Briefing for the Leader of the Opposition") ["the only mutually convenient time we have been able to find is at 2030 hours on Monday 17 December"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Cradock minute for PM ("Implications of Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait") [problems brought out and issues not addressed by the two papers for the the OPD(G)] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO briefing for the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ("Call on Cardinal Hume") ["discuss with him the various issues connected with the Gulf War which are of concern to the Catholic Church"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO letter to Powell ("Iraq-Kuwait: Message from the President of Nauru") [message from the President of Nauru to the PM about the liberation of foreign hostages in Iraq and draft reply] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 minute for FCO ("Iraq-Kuwait: Message from the President of Nauru") [suggestions for additions to the draft reply from the Prime Minister to the President of Nauru] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: MOD letter to Deputy PS to the Queen ("British Forces in the Gulf: Call-Out of Reservs") [seeking the Queen's authorization to call out members of the Reserve forces under Section 10 of the Act ] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Dec 15 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 3051 to FCO (0127Z) ("Shamir's visit to Washington. 11-13 December") ["Administration consider Shamir visit a success"] [declassified Jul 2018]

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Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

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