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Showing items 181 - 200 of 249. Subject: Foreign policy (Middle East). Date range: 28 Nov 1990 – 31 Dec 1991. Document type: Declassified documents.
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91 Jan 7 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: FCO letter to Powell ("Iraq/Kuwait: Message to President Kaunda") [suggested wording for the letter to President Kaunda from the Prime Minister] [declassified Jul 2018] |
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91 Jan 7 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: FCO letter to Powell ("The Gulf Crisis: a Just War") ["arguments and attempts to answer theological reservations over resort to force"] [declassified Jul 2018] |
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91 Jan 7 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: Attorney General Office letter to Powell ("US Request for an Aircraft Carrier for the Red Sea") [difficulties concerning the implementation of e embargo in the Red Sea] [declassified Jul 2018] |
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91 Jan 7 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: Chief Whip's Office record of conversation (Energy Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Defence Secretary & others) ("Gulf: Media Arrangements") [timing, role of No.10 Press Secretary, backbenchers] [declassified Jul 2018] |
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91 Jan 7 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: Attorney General Office letter to MOD (Stolen Laptop) [possible reward for return or immunity for theft] [declassified Jul 2018] |
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91 Jan 8 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: FCO letter to Powell ("Acts of Atrocity in Kuwait") [Information Department ask to have a look to the photograph album given to the PM] [declassified Jul 2018] |
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91 Jan 8 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: Treasury letter to Transport Secretary ("The Gulf: War Risk Insurance for Airlines") ["favour an agreement with the industry which allowed for a much shorter period of notice: perhaps no more than 24 hours"] [declassified Jul 2018] |
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91 Jan 8 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: Chief Whip's Office record of conversation ("Gulf: Media Arrangements") [Government backbenchers; letter to all MPs setting out Government case in event of Commons debate Jan 15; reply to Cardinal Hume's letter; case against further time for sanctions; photos of the atrocities in Kuwait to be used to bring home Saddam's inhumanity; refusal of Saudi authorities to issue sufficient visas for British journalists] [declassified Jul 2018] |
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91 Jan 8 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: MOD letter to Powell ("Call by Chief of Defence Staff") ["The Prime Minister will want primarily to ask Sir David about a number of issues rising from his visit to the Gulf d the Cabinet discussion"] [declassified Jul 2018] |
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91 Jan 8 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: MOD letter to FCO ("Call by Admiral Lanxade") ["Admiral Lanxade made clear that he had President Mitterrand's authority for his reassurance that France would fight"] [declassified Jul 2018] |
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91 Jan 9 We | Declassified documents | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: FCO letter to Powell ("Telephone Call by Mr Mulroney") [PM's impressions of his Gulf trip; Canada's decision to send medical assistance; discuss the idea of a G7 meeting; Mr Mulroney's visit to London] [declassified Jul 2018] |
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91 Jan 9 We | Declassified documents | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: MOD letter to House of Commons Library (Media handling) [rules issued to Editors "to guide them on how to cover Gulf news without jeopardising the safety of the troops"] [declassified Jul 2018] |
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91 Jan 9 We | Declassified documents | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: Department of Transport letter to Treasury ("The Gulf: War Risk Insurance for Airlines") ["draft for a set of agreements with insurers which should provide the basis for reinsurance for all United Kingdom airlines who may be flying to the gulf Area"] [declassified Jul 2018] |
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91 Jan 9 We | Declassified documents | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: MOD letter to Powell ("US Request for Deployment of Carrier Group") [a carrier was to be deployes in the Mediterranean anyway; concerc over the cost of the enhancements required; planning of minimun mount of work at a limited cost] [declassified Jul 2018] |
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91 Jan 9 We | Declassified documents | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: MOD conversation record ("Call by Mr Ashdown") [Government's argument for military action in the Gulf] [declassified Jul 2018] |
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91 Jan 9 We | Declassified documents | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: MOD letter to Powell ("Po Granby: Operational Readiness") [updates concerning the arrangements to speed up the flow of battle-winning equipment and munitions; need for more beds for medical care of prisoners of war] [declassified Jul 2018] |
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91 Jan 9 We | Declassified documents | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: Julian Amery letter to Foreign Secretary (Western Presence in the Gulf) [what the presence should consist of and where it should be located; idea of "making use of the only realiable state in the Middle east not counting Israel. I mean of course Turkey"] [declassified Jul 2018] |
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91 Jan 7 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: FCO letter to Powell ("Gulf: Briefing the Opposition") [Foreign Secretary favors a new meeting between the PM and Mr Kinnock after the PM's visit to the Gulf; "you might also like to know that Mr Baker...was seeing Mr Kinnock this afternoon"] [declassified Jul 2018] |
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91 Jan 5 Sa | Declassified documents | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: Powell letter to Department of Transport ("The Gulf: War Risk Insurance for Airlines") [Prime Minister content with the recommendation to "take action under the Marine and Aviation Insurance (War Risks) Act 1952 to re-insure British aircraft operating to the Middle East"] [declassified Jul 2018] |
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91 Jan 3 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: Cabinet Secretary briefing for PM ("OPD(G): 3 January") [Prime Minister's visit to Camp David; current international situation; British Embassy, Baghdad] [declassified Jul 2018] |
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