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| 86 Jul 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Channon PS letter to Howe PS ("South Africa: EC Code of Conduct: White Paper") [resumption of plans to publish, following postponement during State of Emergency in S. Africa; circulation of intended final draft for comments] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 90 Jul 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr Mandela") ["the impression we want to emerge from the meeting is of some courteous straight-talking"; account also of Mandela conversation with Hurd] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
| 90 Oct 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with President De Klerk") [negotiations with ANC hindered by violence with Inkhatha, inability of ANC to make up its mind and "Mandela's constant peregrinations around the world"] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
| 90 Jan 8 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Robin Renwick") [release of Mandela; political reform; possible MT visit; Namibia; Renwick to Hurd: Annual Review 1989] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 May 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Visit of President De Klerk") ["You had to be pretty tough on de Klerk at your first meeting and it worked. ... This time you can afford to be much nicer to him"] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
| 90 Apr 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Mr Mandela") ["she would like if anything to err on the side of generosity and invite him to a talk followed by a working lunch"] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
| 90 Feb 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell letter to Hurd PS ("Action on sanctions following recent South African government initiatives") [renewal of British Overseas Trade Board (BOTB) funding for South Africa Trade Association] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Jan 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell letter to Hurd PS ("South Africa") [de Klerk visit to UK; release of Mandela imminent] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Jan 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell letter to Hurd PS ("South Africa") [joint invitation from MT and Kohl to Mandela] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 89 Dec 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell letter to Hurd PS ("South Africa") [MT changes to draft statement for Mandela's expected imminent release] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell letter to Hurd PS ("South Africa: EC discussion") [meeting of Foreign Ministers to discuss lifting of ban on investment] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 88 Nov 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | South Africa: Charles Powell minute ("Interview with Beeld") [arrangements] [released Jul 2018] |
| 90 Apr 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Visit of President De Klerk") [decisions needed on May visit to Chequers - programme, invitees] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
| 90 Jun 16 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell minute for MT (call from Mandela) [Mandela seeks meeting with MT at last minute; CDP suggests a call] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
| 90 Feb 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell minute to Ingham ("Mandela's release") [draft MT statement for press] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Cabinet: South Africa") [Hurd report on meeting of EC Foreign Ministers to discuss lifting of ban on investment] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell minute to MT ("President de Klerk's speech: 2 February") [de Klerk informs UK Ambassador Renwick of meeting with Mandela on the eve of speech announcing Mandela's imminent release, and requests Renwick convey assurances that speech will announce "major steps"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Jan 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell minute to MT ("South Africa") ["FCO's contingency plan... on how we should respond to Mandela's release"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell minute to MT ("South Africa") ["we need to galvanise the Foreign Office into... rolling back measures against South Africa... de Klerk... will be bitterly disappointed if we cannot... when Mandela is released... access to funds from the World Bank and the IMF... is not within our gift and the Americans will be crucial here"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell minute to MT ("South Africa") [release of Mandela: advance notice of "the main contents of President de Klerk's speech and it is going to be very good"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell minute to MT (Nelson Mandela) [heads-up of possible phone call to discuss sanctions] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 10 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell minute to MT (release of Nelson Mandela) [Botha relays message that Mandela to be released the next day; MT draft press release] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell minute to MT (UK support for anti-apartheid groups other than ANC in South Africa) [Laurens van der Post: "many sinister strains in Mandela's speech... the alarm bells are ringing"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell minute to No.10 ("South Africa") [key points on: ANC/UK difference of views on armed struggle & significance of sanctions; support for de Klerk; Labour policy on sanctions] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Jun 17 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (Mandela phone call to MT) [asks her not to press colleagues at upcoming European Council to lift sanctions; MT afterwards said she was "a bit disappointed with Mandela, who seemed to have rather a closed mind"] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
| 90 Oct 14 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-De Klerk at Chequers) [De Klerk worried Mandela losing grip on the ANC; annex records MT would love to visit South Africa, but only when there had been "substantial progress in negotiations"] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
| 90 May 19 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-De Klerk at Chequers) [MT thought De Klerk had grown in stature since last meeting; moving speeches over lunch marked return of South Africa's "acceptance back into the international community"] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
| 90 Jun 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-Hurd) [MT's phone conversation with Mandela; MT "repeated that she had been rather disappointed in him"] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
| 90 Jul 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-Mandela) ["a successful meeting with an excellent atmosphere ... he expressed his views on the main issues in conciliatory terms"] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
| 86 Jan 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Claude Hankes-Drielsma letter to MT (Dr. Fritz Leutwiler meeting with the Prime Minister) ["to convey to you his personal impressions subsequent to his meeting with President Botha and many others in South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Co-Chairmen of the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons letter to MT (bilateral exchanges) ["planning to return to Cape Town next week... We are concerned about [news of] bilateral exchanges with the South African Government at this time"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons message to Pik Botha ("South Africa") [calling for "genuine negotiation along the lines envisaged in our negotiating concept"; forwarded to MT by Ramphal by telegram of 6 May] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 23 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal letter to MT ("Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group") [membership; constitution; press release] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal letter to MT (Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons: meeting of seven Commonwealth Heads of Government for six-month progress review of the Group's work) [date, venue & other details] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: FCO letter to No.10 ("South Africa") [civil service paper on "likely effects of political and economic developments in South Africa on the... [UK's] economic stake there"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Mar 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: FCO minute (internal) to Howe PS ("South Africa Revisited (13-20 March 1986)") [situation report; Charles Powell note: "Rather gloomy so far as the prospects for the Eminent Persons Group are concerned"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: FCO minute (internal): Fergusson to Prendergast ("ComGEP: Mrs Helen Suzman") [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons: "very critical... of Lord Barber for putting his name to the report"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Feb 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: FCO minute (internal): South African Department to Curran ("South Africa: Ability of the Government to Retain Control") ["getting across to blacks in South Africa and to other third world governments... the [long term] implications of sanctions for themselves"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: FCO record of conversation ("Secretary of State's meeting with Mr Mugabe") [Howe, Mugabe: Mugabe sceptical of British motives for opposing sanctions; Zimbabwe expenditure on transport links; relations with US] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: FCO record of conversation ("Secretary of State's meeting with President Machel") [UK/Mozambique relations; negotiations with S. African govt] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 90 Jul 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: FCO record of conversation (Hurd, Mandela) [nationalisation; sanctions; armed struggle; elections; continuing contacts] [declassified Dec 2018] |
| 90 Feb 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: FCO telegram to UKE Bonn ("Secretary of State's meeting with Genscher: South Africa") [Hurd, Genscher record of conversation: lifting of ban on investments; Namibian independence celebrations] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 85 Dec 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: FCO telegram to UKE Pretoria ("Eminent Persons Group") [report on first meeting & meeting with MT] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: FCO telegram to UKE Seoul ("ComGEP Review Meeting") [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons: Governments' efforts to agree an early date] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: FCO telegram to UKHC Lusaka ("Eminent Persons Group") [assessment of current support amongst African governments for the Commonwealth Group] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 12 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: FCO telegram to UKHC Nairobi ("Commonwealth Games") ["surprised and concerned at this morning's... reports that the Kenyan Government has decided to pull out"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 88 Nov 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | South Africa: FCO to No.10 ("Request for an Interview with the Prime Minister from the Editor of 'Beeld'") [opportunity for MT to set out opposition to apartheid and need for SAG to grasp the reform nettle] [released Jul 2018] |
| 86 May 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Foreign Minister Botha letter to co-Chairmen of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group ('possible negotiating concept' proposal) [detail of "four major questions... about the... concept"; "cannot accept that violence should be discontinued only for as long as negotiations take place"; "not interested in negotiation about a transfer of power"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Mar 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Howe letter to Pik Botha (Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons) ["both the tenor and substance of your government's response to the Group this week is likely to have a significant influence on the future course of the Group's mission"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Howe message to Pik Botha (visit to southern Africa) [presses for meeting with President Botha; reasons for short notice of visit & inflexibility of dates] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Dec 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Howe minute to MT ("South Africa") [Howe proposal for Lord Richardson to act as intermediary between MT & President Botha] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Howe minute to MT ("South Africa") [report on visit to southern Africa] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Apr 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Howe minute to MT ("South Africa: CHOGM Accord - Krugerrands") [Howe in favour of legislative ban on imports; Channon's view "a legislative ban would be a clear breach of GATT" ] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Howe PS letter to Brittan PS (Commonwealth Accord on South Africa) ["we should not get ahead of others in importing a ban on the sale of Kruggerands"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Chief Minister of Lebowa") [No.10 declines request for meeting] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("ComGEP visit to South Africa") [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons: Ramphal account of Group's meeting with Pik Botha] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Mar 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Commonwealth Fellowship Scheme for Black South Africans") [details of implementation; "We expect that the... scheme will make a valuable contribution to... convincing South African blacks of our good will"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Mar 11 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons") [details of Group's 'negotiating concept' proposal; "would be helpful if the Prime Minister were to send another message to President Botha"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("EC Code of Conduct") ["for European companies with subsidiaries in South Africa... [role] in the economic development of black South Africans... the Code has been strengthened"; details] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Dec 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Eminent Persons Group: Possibility of the Prime Minister Seeing General Obasanjo") ["keen to have a private talk with [MT]... [is] in a position to play a key role in the Group"; MT agrees] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Mission to Southern Africa") [objectives; schedule] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Ramphal's views on international economic issues") [Howe "shares... [MT's] irritation... [but] we want to keep Ramphal on board at this critical stage"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Apr 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Reform in South Africa") [Howe flags up speech by Principal of University of Cape Town; No.10 notes speech to "depict an ideal and academic outcome rather than a practical one"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Mar 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Representations by the Twelve on the current unrest in South Africa") [Howe "has judged it right to agree... We have however proposed certain modifications on the line which the Dutch propose to take"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Feb 28 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Representations to the South African Government") [concerns raised by Moberly about various recent incidents/deveopments; S. African gov respond publicly; MT irate at lack of consultation with No.10] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Review of the Commonwealth Accord on South Africa") [draft letter of acceptance; "prospects for their mission are not bright... But the total collapse of the Commonwealth Group... would result in intense pressure on us"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa") [Commonwealth countries: recent states of emergency; one party states; deaths caused by security forces; effectiveness of sanctions] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa") [Howe "greatly doubts... consensus at the [Tokyo Economic] Summit in favour of a statement on the lines proposed by [President Botha]"; advises MT to wait until after Summit to reply to Botha; draft instructions to Moberly] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa: Eminent Persons Group (EPG)") [membership; announcement to S. African government; assessment of S. African government reaction] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa: message from President Botha") ["thoroughly discouraging... no alternative but to continue to support the... [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group] initiative"; Howe advises against MT reply to Botha; discussions with US; sanctions; Pik Botha proposal to meet with "four leading countries of the [EC]" ] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South African raids") [draft reply for MT to President Botha; "[Howe] finds... [Botha's] justification for the raids is flimsy... [and] shows no glimmer of appreciation for the risks taken by... [MT] on his behalf"; risk to survival of Commonwealth if sanctions are not enforced in event of Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group's failure to negotiate successfully] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 (South African raids on Zimbabwe, Botswana and Zambia) [advice from Howe] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Howe PS minute to No.10 ("Commonwealth Secretary General's call on the Prime Minister") [lines to take] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 90 Feb 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Political aid") [proposed cross-party examinaton of policy options with regard to setting up of "a new organistion or foundation"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("President de Klerk's speech: 2 February") [lines to take on the eve of speech announcing Mandela's release: "In the expectation that Mr de Klerk announces some new moves towards negotiations, but ones which are modest compared with media expectations"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Jan 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa") [release of Mandela: proposed joint Anglo-American statement] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa") [series of tailored draft statements for MT to coincide with Mandela's release] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 89 Dec 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa") [UK's plan of action for response to Mandela's expected imminent release] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 86 Mar 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: John Browne MP letter to MT (visit to South Africa) [proposals, in advance of meeting with MT] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 88 Jun 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Joyce Mokhesi letter to No.10 (the case of the 'Sharpeville Six') [plea for further political support from MT] [declassified Dec 2017] |
| 86 Feb 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Lord Rothschild letter to No.10 (President Botha open letter to media) [South Africa newspaper clipping] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Malcolm Fraser letter to MT (negotiations with the South African Government) [analysis of why the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons' negotiations failed & of necessary measures for successful negotiations; MT: "More to do with Malcolm than S. Africa!"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Aug 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | South Africa: McFarlane email to White House (planning for policy announcement) [declassified 1999] |
| 85 Aug 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | South Africa: McFarlane email to White House (political message & South African financial crisis) [declassified 1999] |
| 85 Aug 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | South Africa: McFarlane email to White House (Vienna meeting with Pik Botha) [declassified 1999] |
| 85 Sep 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | South Africa: McFarlane memorandum (public diplomacy programme to sell US policy towards South Africa) [declassified 1999] |
| 85 Aug 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | South Africa: McFarlane telegram to USE Pretoria (demands “bold & concrete steps”) [declassified 1999] |
| 90 Feb 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to Bernie Grant MP (aid programme to facilitate South African political groups' negotiations with their government) ["a case for practical assistance... I hope that we will be able to establish a scheme soon"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 85 Dec 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal (Group of Eminent Persons) ["I was very pleased... to meet the members this morning and was greatly encouraged... I have already sent a message to President Botha"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal (Nassau Accord and the work of the Eminent Persons Group: review of progress) ["I... confirm my agreement to the dates, venue and Chairmanship... [the Group's] mission must be given every encouragement to succeed"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Feb 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to Dr. James Barber (scheme to bring black South African teachers of English to Durham) ["delighted to hear that this is going well"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to Dr. James Barber (South African Schoolteacher Fellowship Scheme) ["very pleased to hear that the... Scheme is likely to get underway this October"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to Dr. Julius Nyerere (reform in South Africa) [Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting/Nassau Accord; Eminent Persons Group; resignation from Presidency of Tanzania] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jan 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to Julian Amery MP (visit to South Africa) ["grateful to you for raising with the President the importance of seeing the Eminent Persons Group and the need to avoid cross-border raids"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Feb 11 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to Nicholas Elliott (visit to South Africa) [MT acknowledges letter and asks diary secretary to schedule a meeting] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jan 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to Nicholas Winterton MP (report on South Africa) [possible military coup] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to Premier Bjelke-Peterson (South Africa) ["I value your support and encouragement"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Feb 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to Premier Swan ("Bermuda: sanctions against South Africa") ["we remain firmly opposed to economic and trade boycotts"; MT initially reluctant to oppose Bermudan intentions to legislate] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 17 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["dismayed... that your Government consider that it would be impossible to co-operate... The international pressures for sanctions... will fast gather momentum again"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Dec 14 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) [report on her meeting with the Group; "they particularly asked me to to urge you to let them visit South Africa in January"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Apr 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons' 'negotiating concept') ["worth making a serious effort... rising chorus of calls for economic sanctions... would encourage you to explore with the Group exactly what a suspension of violence would entail"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Mar 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons) ["The Group's report will clearly be of major importance... Your response to their 'possible negotiating concept' will be the determining factor in shaping that report and subsequent steps"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Geoffrey Howe visit to southern Africa) [scheduling of his key meetings] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Jul 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (his defence of Gaborone raid) ["I shall reply with equal frankness"] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Mar 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (lifting of the State of Emergency) ["I wanted you to know how warmly I welcome the important steps which you have just announced... we shall be working hard to persuade the Angolan Government to play its part"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Feb 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (opening address to Parliament) ["I see your speech as both constructive and courageous... The legislative measures which you announced represent concrete steps to implement change"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 88 May 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (political reform in South Africa) [black participation in central govt & representation in Parliament; contact with Mozambique; talks in London between S. African, Cuban, US and Angolan delegates] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 86 Jan 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (reform and negotiations) [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group visit; Botha's forthcoming address to Parliament; South African govt strategy to address violent conflict] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Dec 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (reform in South Africa) [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group; recent landmine explosions in Northern Transvaal] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (sanctions and negotiations) [European Council meeting; "suspension of violence on all sides"; release of Mandela; black leadership; Howe visit] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 21 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (South African raids on Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe) ["writing to let you know of my vexation and... anger... impossible to understand... immense damage done to your international position and... to the Commonwealth intiative of which you make no mention... astonishing... next few days could be decisive... may be the last chance for a negotiated solution"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Tokyo Summit: declaration on South Africa) ["major practical difficulties in the way of agreeing a statement... short reference to South Africa at the joint press conference... very pleased the the [Commonwealth Eminent Persons] Group has now decided to return to Southern Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 10 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to President Diouf (Secretary of State's visit to Africa: meeting with Nigerian Foreign Minister) ["it is imperative that we should demonstrate our disapproval of the policies of the South African Government without causing them to react in such a way as to rule out dialogue and compromise"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 90 Feb 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to President FW de Klerk (release of Nelson Mandela) ["I also very much welcome... lifting the state of emergency and the unbanning of the ANC... these are major steps forward"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 86 May 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to President Kaunda (South African raid on Zambia) ["inexcusable.... The immediate need is to consider how best to keep... [the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons peace dialogue process] alive"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to President Masire (South African raid on Botswana) ["inexcusable.... The immediate need is to consider how best to keep... [the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons peace dialogue process] alive"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 21 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | South Africa: MT letter to President P.W. Botha (Botswana raid) [his government's action "absolutely impossible to understand"] [released 2017] |
| 86 Mar 20 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to President Reagan (Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons) ["hope... that you might agree to add your support to their efforts at what could prove to be a critical moment"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to Prime Minister Mugabe (South African raid on Zimbabwe) ["inexcusable.... The immediate need is to consider how best to keep... [the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons peace dialogue process] alive"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Dec 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to Robert Mugabe (reform and negotiations) [visit to South Africa of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group; ANC attacks close to Zimbabwe border - "frankly dismayed... hope that you will continue to use your influence to prevent such attacks"; Mozambique] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jan 22 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to Robert Mugabe (South Africa) [corrects Mugabe's reading of her previous letter: "[we] accept that you do not allow or encourage ANC bases in Zimbabwe... Nor is there any question of my seeking to threaten Zimbabwe on behalf of South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 90 Feb 10 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT message to Chancellor Kohl ("South Africa: release of Mandela") [endorsement of de Klerk - "has taken considerable political risks" - and call for reciprocation of his efforts through ANC suspension of violence & entry into negotiatians, and the lifting of sanctions] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 86 Jul 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT message to co-Chairmen of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group ("European Council/South Africa: messages") [conclusions & next steps] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Mar 20 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | South Africa: MT message to P.W. Botha (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["your Government should give the Group a response which would enable them to continue discussions with you"] [released 2017] |
| 86 Apr 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | South Africa: MT message to P.W. Botha (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) [should signal interest in Group's Negotiating Concept] [released 2017] |
| 86 Jul 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | South Africa: MT message to P.W. Botha (European Council decision) ["should not be seen as an ultimatum"] [released 2017] |
| 86 Jun 1 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | South Africa: MT message to P.W. Botha (reactions to recent events) ["We ought now to put this behind us"] [released 2017] |
| 86 Jul 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | South Africa: MT message to P.W. Botha (sanctions) [Howe visit, European pressure] [released 2017] |
| 90 Feb 10 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT message to President Mitterrand, PMs Lubbers, Cavaco Silva & Andreotti ("South Africa: release of Mandela") [endorsement of de Klerk - "has taken considerable political risks" - and call for reciprocation of his efforts through ANC suspension of violence & entry into negotiatians, and the lifting of sanctions] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 10 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT message to Presidents Babangida & Kaunda ("South Africa: release of Mandela") [endorsement of de Klerk - "has taken considerable political risks" - and call for reciprocation of his efforts through ANC suspension of violence & entry into negotiatians] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 10 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT message to Prime Minister Kaifu ("South Africa: release of Mandela") [endorsement of de Klerk - "has taken considerable political risks" - and call for reciprocation of his efforts through ANC suspension of violence & entry into negotiatians, and the lifting of sanctions] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 10 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT message to Prime Ministers Mulroney & Hawke ("South Africa: release of Mandela") [endorsement of de Klerk - "has taken considerable political risks" - and call for reciprocation of his efforts through ANC suspension of violence & entry into negotiatians, and the lifting of sanctions] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 10 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT message to Taoiseach Haughey ("South Africa: release of Mandela") [endorsement of de Klerk - "has taken considerable political risks" - and call for reciprocation of his efforts through ANC suspension of violence & entry into negotiation, and the lifting of sanctions] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Jul 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT notes (remarks at lunch with Mandela?) ["All lasting solutions are grown solutions .... There is a new generation not caught up in the outdated Marxist shibboleths of the ANC"] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
| 84 Jun 2 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | South Africa: MT record of conversation (MT-President Botha) [presses on Mandela release: "Transkei takes responsibility"] [released Jul 2018] |
| 88 Jul 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | South Africa: MT to Harry Oppenheimer (thanks) [looks forward to reading the book he sent] [released Jul 2018] |
| 88 Jul 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | South Africa: MT to Helmut Kohl (Nelson Mandela's release) ["we are approaching a watershed... without visible and concrete progress on reform and towards peace, it will be very difficult to carry much conviction with the Americans"] [released Jul 2018] |
| 88 Jul 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | South Africa: MT to Judi Dench (Sharpeville six) [efforts to secure clemency] [released Jul 2018] |
| 88 Jul 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | South Africa: MT to Neil Kinnock (scale of deprivation) ["comprehensive mandatory sanctions would propel the region downward into a vicious cycle of increased suffering without bringing the end of apartheid any nearer"] [released Jul 2018] |
| 88 Feb 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | South Africa: MT to Nicholas Bethell (Nelson Mandela's release) ["the humanitarian and the political case... is compelling" but not yet sure it would contribute to the end of apartheid] [released Jul 2018] |
| 88 Jul 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | South Africa: MT to Pieter Willem Botha (Nelson Mandela's release) [without "visible, concrete progress on reform", MT's task in influencing the new US administration will be made more difficult] [released Jul 2018] |
| 85 Oct 31 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (South African DFA) | South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (account of Nassau CHOGM & way ahead; urges release of Mandela) [declassified ?2005] |
| 85 Jul 10 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (South African DFA) | South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (again criticises armed raids) [declassified ?2005] |
| 85 Jul 4 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (South African DFA) | South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (criticises armed raids into Angola & Gaborone) [declassified ?2005] |
| 85 Oct 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (South African DFA) | South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (drift towards international sanctions against SA) [declassified ?2005] |
| 85 Oct 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (South African DFA) | South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (outcome of Nassau Commonwealth Meeting) [declassified ?2005] |
| 85 Sep 7 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | South Africa: National Security Decision Directive (“United States policy towards South Africa”) (NSDD-187) [declassified 1991] |
| 86 Mar 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Lord Barber") [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons visit to S. Africa & next steps] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Dec 12 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Eminent Persons Group") [lines to take on discussion of Group's diplomatic strategy; lines to take on discussion of Nigeria with General Obasanjo] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 90 Feb 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 briefing for MT (President FW de Klerk press conference: release of Nelson Mandela) [lines to take] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 85 Nov 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 briefing note for MT (meeting with Enos Mabuza) [concise character sketch; FCO briefing attached] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 90 Jan 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 conversation record (“South Africa”) [MT, UK Ambassador Robin Renwick, Charles Powell - possible release of Mandela] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Mar 3 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Representations to the South African Government") [MT "thought that this matter had been handled most unsatisfactorily"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 29 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("South Africa: message from President Botha") [draft reply: MT "agrees [with Howe] that we should do everything possible to keep the... [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group] initiative alive"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jan 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 letter to Howe PS (Derek Tonkin farewell letter from Pretoria) [MT "found it a very interesting and well-written account, if rather depressing in its conclusions"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Dec 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 minute (internal): Cradock to Powell ("Land Mine attack in South Africa") [report & analysis] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Dec 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 minute (internal): Cradock to Powell ("Possible South African raid into Lesotho") [report & analysis] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 minute to Addison (internal) and Howe PS ("President Botha's Message") [relayed by airborne telegram en route to Tokyo Economic Summit: MT overrides Howe advice: request to revise instructions to Moberly - "too negative": still hopeful of securing a reference to South Africa in the Summit conclusions] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Feb 3 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("South Africa: President Botha's Speech to Parliament") [MT "is concerned that our public line on this speech has been rather wan": proposed line to take if questioned in Parliament] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Apr 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons") [date of review conference; MT: "what really bothers me is that the EPG do not seem interested in getting the best results - only in forcing the pace"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Apr 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons") [timing, venue and level of Group Review Meeting: Howe reluctant to delay beyond July; MT reluctant to be rushed at the expense of a worthwhile outcome] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Mar 6 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("Nicholas Elliott") [MT agrees to meeting to discuss his visit to S. Africa, Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons, and how to spend his inheritance] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Apr 16 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("Reply to President Botha") [draft reply: "have to make Botha feel that his efforts are appreciated... [but] bring home to him... that he must deal direct with the [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group]"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("South Africa") [details of the raids on Zimbabwe, Botswana & Zambia and of immediate UK government response] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("South Africa") [scheduling of next restricted Ministerial Group meeting] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 84 May 31 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 minute to MT (Laurens van der Post suggestions for MT's handling of Botha visit) [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Jul 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 minute to MT (message from Lord Tonypandy) ["watching your Canadian tv interview on South Africa... 100% in support... happy to speak out if you wish"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 note (internal) to Powell (European Council: message to Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal) [oversight] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 9 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 note to MT ("Foreign Secretary's mission to southern Africa") [update on progress] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jan 9 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("South Africa") [details of Reagan's newly-formed "South Africa Working Group" and of its proposal for twenty black College Presidents to visit S. Africa and to meet with MT in London on their way back] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 90 Jan 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("South Africa") [soundings recent visit: "general optimism that the old stalemates are about to be broken... the key issues are perceived to be economic. How can foreign capital be drawn in..."] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation ("South Africa") [Charles Powell, Bernie Grant MP: report on Grant's meeting with Mandela; sanctions; UK aid for political groups in South Africa] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Jan 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation ("South Africa") [Charles Powell, Dr. Denis Worrall] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 86 Jul 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation ("South Africa") [Laurens van der Post, Charles Powell: addendum to van der Post's conversation with Howe] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 13 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brian Mulroney) [partial record of conversation: sanctions against South Africa: "Mulroney said that it was clear that Canada and the... [UK] had a strong divergence of opinion... This was not a happy situation"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 88 May 4 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Colin Eglin) [political reform] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 85 Dec 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons) [reform in S. Africa] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Feb 5 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Dr. Fritz Leutwiler) [South Africa's financial problems] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Enos Mabuza) [strategy for initiating dialogue between S. African government & black representatives] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Apr 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hawke) [Libya; New Zealand ship visits; South Africa; South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone; Australian Bicentennial] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Mar 26 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons on South Africa": timing of next meeting] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Mar 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["South Africa": Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group; Cuban withdrawal from Namibia; MT "dissatisfaction about the way in which the recent representations of the South African Government were handled"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 3 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [Howe's forthcoming visits to South Africa; meetings with Mandela & Tambo; Commons debate on South Africa] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Mar 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Lord Barber) ["Prime Minister's meeting with Lord Barber": account of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group's visit to S. Africa/'possible negotiating concept'] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 90 Jan 10 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd) ["South Africa": how UK should react to Mandela's release] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 15 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd) ["South Africa": sanctions; aid] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 89 Dec 21 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd) ["South Africa": UK's plan of action for response to Mandela's expected imminent release] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 88 Jul 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Joyce Mokhesi) ['Sharpeville Six' case] [declassified Dec 2017] |
| 86 Jan 22 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Barber) [Nigerians insisting on meeting with Mandala as condition of joining visit to South Africa] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 14 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Adley MP) [Adley advises that "The best way... of encouraging... dialogue... would be to talk to the ANC"; MT "appalled by the recent pronouncements of Mr Tambo"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 88 Feb 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, South African Ambassador Killen) [MT took "delivery of President Botha's reply to her recent message... She then said that she wanted to be frank... Apartheid was a basic grievance and it must go... she was disappointed by [Botha's] reply"] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 89 Jun 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-National Party leader F.W. De Klerk: tête-à-tête) [MT "did not find his emphasis on group rights and the need to avoid tyranny by any one group of another was very helpful ... it would look as though white South Africans were expecting blacks to behave better to them than they had behaved towards the blacks"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 84 Jun 2 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Botha: plenary) [South Africa, Cuban presence in Angola, South West Africa] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jun 2 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Botha: tête-à-tête) [South Africa’s internal situation, Soviet activities, the ANC offices in London, Nelson Mandela] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Feb 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | South Africa: NSC & State Department comment on Botha letter to Reagan (reform of apartheid) [declassified 1999] |
| 85 Oct 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | South Africa: NSC memorandum for McFarlane (“Public Diplomacy Program for South Africa”) [declassified 1999] |
| 90 Feb 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: ODA minute to No.10 (Mells Park Conference) [report on most recent meeting of ongoing secret negotiations between ANC and South African government] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 86 May 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | South Africa: P.W. Botha message to MT ("veiled threats" in previous messages) ["we can never accept the dictates from outside forces"] [released 2017] |
| 86 Apr 10 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | South Africa: P.W. Botha message to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) [Mandela's release should not be accompanied by an increase in violence] [released 2017] |
| 86 May 1 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | South Africa: P.W. Botha message to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) [response to Group's Negotiating Concept] [released 2017] |
| 86 Jul 6 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | South Africa: P.W. Botha message to MT (European Council decisions) [perpetrators of violence should be target of pressure, not the government] [released 2017] |
| 86 Jul 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | South Africa: P.W. Botha message to MT (European Council decisions) [sanctions, measures for black South Africans, Mandela release] [released 2017] |
| 86 Jul 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | South Africa: P.W. Botha message to MT (sanctions) [ANC must abandon violence] [released 2017] |
| 86 May 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | South Africa: P.W. Botha message to MT (South African Communist Party) [determination to resist enemies] [released 2017] |
| 86 May 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | South Africa: P.W. Botha message to MT (violence) [violence should not be used as a bargaining chip] [released 2017] |
| 86 Apr 24 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Pik Botha letter to co-Chairmen of the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons (Commonwealth Group's 'possible negotiating concept') ["if the South African Government does move along the lines suggested... and violence continues or increases... the Government may have no alternative but to take appropriate measures to control the violence"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Mar 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Pik Botha letter to Hans van den Broek (European Community Aide Memoire) ["Once again I appeal to European Governments to take a wider and more balanced view of what is happening in South and Southern Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 88 Nov 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Powell briefing for MT ("Interview with Beeld") ["the main points you will want to get across"] [declassified Dec 2017] |
| 88 Jul 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Powell briefing for MT ("Sharpeville Six") [meeting with Joyce Mokhesi, sister of one of the six accused] [declassified Dec 2017] |
| 88 Dec 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Powell conversation record (MT, Dr Fritz Leutweiler) [pressurising Botha] [declassified Dec 2017] |
| 88 Nov 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Powell letter to FCO ("Anglo-German Emissary to President Botha") [Leutweiler visit to South Africa; possible MT meeting with Botha in New York] [declassified Dec 2017] |
| 89 May 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Powell letter to Michael Young (Mells Park Conference) ["we continue to feel that any attempt to play a direct role from outside would be unwelcome", MT remains convinced no role for UK in South Africa as "honest broker"] [declassified Dec 2017] |
| 89 Sep 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | South Africa: Powell minute ("Interview with Black South African Journalists") ["the best line to take on whether you will meet the ANC is to say that you would be very glad to meet Nelson Mandela once he is released"] [released Feb 2019] |
| 89 Jul 8 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Powell minute for MT (South Africa) [emissary from Pik Botha tells Powell of President Botha's first meeting with Nelson Mandela, "quite positive"] [declassified Dec 2017] |
| 88 Feb 24 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Powell minute to MT ("Reply to President Botha") [comments on proposed draft reply] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 87 Oct 29 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Powell minute to MT ("South Africa") [MT blocks UK Ambassador's proposed meeting with Botha] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 86 Apr 10 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group 'possible negotiating concept' and the cessation of violence) ["If... [we] could receive a definite assurance to the effect that violence would cease... [we] would be prepared to consider... the"possible negotiating concept" of the [CGEP]"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["only a commitment to peace can result in negotiated settlements..."; "[it appears] if we do not accept... [the Group's] "possible negotiating concept" no further proposal will emanate from them... in the light of your own intransigence, I must assume [the Group's, likewise]"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["Were it not for you admirable efforts, I would have had no hesitation in rejecting the Nassau initiative outright"; alternative proposal] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Dec 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group: visit to South Africa) ["If not correctly... handled, this initiative could be damaging not only for South Africa but for the whole of the sub-continent"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Group on South Africa) [text of Statement "embodying my Government's reactions"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Geoffrey Howe visit to southern Africa) ["pleased to note... will be laying particular emphasis on the need [for ANC] to abandon violence"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 88 Mar 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (political reform) ["It is clear that, despite our exchanges, we hold differing views on the reality of South Africa today, and what is possible and desirable under prevailing circumstances"] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 85 Dec 14 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (reform in South Africa) [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group; reform process/dialogue; policy towards Zimbabwe over recent landmine explosions ] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (sanctions and negotiations) ["appreciation for your opposition to... sanctions... I am ready to enter into negotiations with anyone who abandons violence as a means of achieving political objectives"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 5 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (sanctions and negotiations) ["The stand you have taken on sanctions is courageous... I note... you still refer to a 'suspension' of violence... it will be useful to have in depth discussions with Geoffrey Howe when we meet later this month"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (South Africa raids on Zimbabwe, Botswana and Zambia) ["continuation of... violence... as a form of pressure in the negotiating process... need for Governments... publicly to denounce the ANC... certain countries in Southern Africa continue to harbour terrorists... South African security forces were left with no option"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jan 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (the future of South Africa & the necessary conditions for dialogue) [opening address to Parliament; legislative change; sanctions; suspension of violence as a condition of power-sharing; Angola; Mozambique] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Apr 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Tokyo Economic Summit: statement on South Africa) ["[a joint statement by] the Heads of Government... could provide momentum to current efforts to bring an end violence and facilitate negotiations"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 90 Feb 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President de Klerk letter to MT (removal of sanctions) ["I hope other will be prepared to follow your courageous stand"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President FW de Klerk Address to the South African Parliament (release of Mandela & the way forward for South Africa) ["negotiation the highest priority. The aim is a totally new and just constitutional dispensation in which every inhabitant will enjoy equal rights"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President FW de Klerk message to MT (release of Mandela) ["thank you for your prompt reaction to the steps which I announced in my speech... There can surely no longer be any reasonable grounds on which South Africa should continue to be isolated by the international community"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 86 Jul 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Mwinyi letter to MT (South Africa) [European Community Summit; sanctions; endorsement of Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group work; concerns about Howe visit to southern Africa] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Apr 6 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Reagan letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["I am pleased to support your efforts and will write to State President Botha, as you suggest, to urge him to continue the dialogue with the.... Group"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 29 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Prime Minister Gandhi letter to MT (tour of African Frontline States) ["[has] reinforced my conviction that time is running out on a peaceful solution... in South Africa... [but] I am not pre-judging the results of [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group's] endeavours"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 90 Feb 28 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Prime Minister Hawke letter to MT (the release of Nelson Mandela) ["until we see evidence of... genuine negotiations and the ending of apartheid it is premature to... dismantle our economic and other pressures on the... Government"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 86 Jan 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Prime Minister Mugabe letter to MT (Zimbabwe's relations with the ANC and South Africa) [angry response to perceived MT insinuation of Zimbabwean compliance in ANC attacks and "a threat you are delivering to me on behalf of South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 9 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Prime Minister Nakasone message to MT (aboliton of apartheid: measures against South Africa) ["Japan will be prepared to study possible ways of participating in... concerted efforts"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 90 Feb 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Prime Minister Silva letter to MT (sanctions) [constructive response on the way forward following Mandela's release] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 86 Feb 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Privy Council Office record of conversation (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) [Whitelaw, Malcolm Fraser: "[Fraser's] hunch was that the Group was likely to recommend further action - short of full-scale sanctions"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jun 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | South Africa: Reagan letter to Thatcher (concerting policy) [declassified 2000] |
| 87 May 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | South Africa: Reagan letter to Thatcher (Mozambique) [declassified 2000] |
| 90 Feb 14 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Ridley PS letter to No.10 ("Action on sanctions following recent South African government initiatives") [case for restoring British Overseas Trade Board (BOTB) funding] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 83 Jun 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | South Africa: Shultz memo for Reagan (Angola, Namibia, apartheid) [declassified 1999] |
| 86 May 15 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: South African Embassy letter to No.10 (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group and Speech by President Botha) [update on Group's meetings; transcript of speech] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Sep 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | South Africa: State Department memorandum to McFarlane (following up US measures) [declassified 1999] |
| 85 Oct 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | South Africa: State Department memorandum to McFarlane (following up US measures) [declassified 1999] |
| 85 Jun 29 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | South Africa: State Department telegram to US Embassies (update on negotiations) [declassified 1999] |
| 90 Feb 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Statement by Dr Gerrit Viljoen (negotiations) [South African Minister of Constitutional Development & National Education: comments on contextual issues of sanctions; obstacles; debate & representation; political & economic idealogy] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Taoiseach Haughey letter to MT (South Africa) ["recent developments.. and how the Twelve might react to them"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Jan 3 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKA Cape Town despatch to Hurd ("South Africa: Annual Review: 1989") ["A year of positive change"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 88 Sep 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("South Africa: Anglo-German emissary to President Botha") [preparation] [declassified Dec 2017] |
| 86 May 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("ComGEP: press leaks") [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group; local press report on Group's meeting with Mandela] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Mar 13 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group") [overview of Group's visit to S. Africa] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 14 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group") [Ambassador Moberly record of conversation with Lord Barber: Group's meeting with Pik Botha] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Mar 27 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group") [Ambassador Moberly record of conversation with Pik Botha: President Botha's forthcoming reply to MT; "prospects for a positive response to the Group's ideas rest on a knife edge"; proposal that Group defer meeting to maximise chances] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Feb 19 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group") [Eminent Persons Group: report on progress of one week visit: "so far so good"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group") [report on Group's meetings with Mandela & with Pik Botha, and forthcoming itinerary] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Feb 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group") [schedule for visit to S. Africa] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Apr 10 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group: message from President Botha") [Ambassador Moberly record of conversation with Pik Botha: "it was an assurance from the... [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons] rather than the ANC which the South African Government would be needing in regard to cessation of violence"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 90 Feb 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("De Klerk's Speech: reactions") ["Reforms greeted enthusiastically. Buthelezi and elements of the PAG prepared to negotiate with the SAG forthwith. UDF arguing that not all conditions have yet been met"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 14 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("De Klerk's views") ["white domination, in whatever way it exists, must go"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 21 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("De Klerk's visit to Britain") ["anxious" to meet with MT at earliest possible date] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 86 Apr 24 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Ending of Pass Laws") [statement by Minister of Justice] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 90 Feb 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela's release") [Mandela press conference; P.W. Botha comments; report on violence & deaths in various parts of country; Kaunda statement] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela's release") [text of UK Ambassador Renwick's message to Mandela] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 14 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela's speech in Soweto") [apartheid; crime; education; violence; nationalisation; equality, accountable leadership & peaceful protest] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 10 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela") [de Klerk annoucement that Mandela about to be released] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 21 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela") [record of conversation with Walter Sisulu: sanctions] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela") [report of Mandela press conference] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 15 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela") [UK Ambassador Renwick record of conversation with PW Botha: "in an agitated state... based on an inteview Mandela had given... [about potential] guerrilla attacks"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela: message from the Prime Minister and Chancellor Kohl") [congratulations on his imminent release; note of caution sounded regarding possibility that invitations to visit UK & Germany might be declined] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 22 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Meeting with Mandela") [Ambassador Renwick record of conversation with Mandela] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 22 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Meeting with Mandela") [Ambassador Renwick, Mandela: Mandela unable to meet with Hurd; MT: "very disappointing"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 88 Mar 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Meeting with President Botha") [Robin Renwick record of conversation: Mandela; date of next Election; negotiations with opposition; Western attitudes; the Union Jack on the South African flag; sanctions] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 90 Feb 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Meeting with Sisulu") [UK Ambassador Renwick record of conversation: sanctions; post-state of emergency constitution; education] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 86 May 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Message from President Botha") [Ambassador Moberly, Pik Botha record of conversation: "I said that it was the most depressing interview I had had with any Minister during my four and a half years as Ambassador, first in Israel and then in South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Nelson Mandela") [report on meeting of "two members of the Opposition Progressive Federal Party... with Nelson Mandela"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Feb 3 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Presidents Speech to Parliament") ["good but still not good enough"; advice on points to stress in UK response; "I continue to believe that the President's offer on Mandela should be taken seriously"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Apr 24 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Reactions to Government Reform Announcements") ["broad welcome from Whites to the Government's proposals for abolition of the pass laws and influx control. Blacks are generally sceptical"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Feb 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Representations to the SAG") [UKE statement to press, protesting S. African govt actions; attached record of conversation with Deputy Foreign Minister] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 90 Feb 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: de Klerk's speech") [speech centering around release of Mandela: key points] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 86 Feb 27 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: internal") ['state of emergency' situaton report: "It is clear that President Botha's speech at the opening of Parliament has made no difference to blacks among whom further unrest is expected"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 90 Feb 11 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: Mandela") [main points from Mandela's address to rally in Cape Town; reports of violence at the rally] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Jan 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: meeting with de Klerk") [UK Ambassador Renwick record of conversation: Hurd visit; de Klerk visit to UK; negotiations with political opponents; ANC violence; sanctions; use of the death penalty] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 91 Apr 18 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: meeting with Mandela") [Mandela asked to see MT when she visited South Africa, though not all ANC would approve; asks would she see Treurnicht? right wing parties needed to be pressurised to join negotiations] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
| 90 Jan 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: meeting with the Finance Minister") [UK Ambassador Renwick record of conversation: Defence issues; the need for de Klerk's forthcoming speech for the Opening of Parliament to address Mandela's release and negotiations] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: Pik Botha's meeting with EC ambassadors") [report outlining Botha's relayance of his government's concerns about West not following up on its pledges; discussion of key UK concerns about current situation] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Jan 25 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: reform") [expected key points of forthcoming de Klerk speech likely to announce imminent release of Mandela] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 86 May 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South African raids: message from President Botha") [Ambassador Moberly record of conversation with Director General for Foreign Affairs] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Apr 24 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South African reply to Commonwealth Group") [Moberly record of conversation with Pik Botha: "began to bridle at... [implication] that the Group might not find a great deal of movement on the Government's part towards the ideas in their negotiating concept"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Apr 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South African reply to Commonwealth Group") [report on the thinking behind Pik Botha letter] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 May 15 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Speech by President Botha") [views of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group on the speech; analysis; suggested line to take] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Harare telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth African reactions to British policy on South Africa") [Commonwealth Games boycott] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 90 Jun 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Johannesburg telegram to FCO (Mandela) [Ambassador's conversation with Mandela in hospital; preparation for meeting with MT in July] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
| 86 Mar 5 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Johannesburg telegram to UKE Cape Town ("Alexandra funerals") [report on the service & attendance; "an atmosphere of extreme tension... and it may well be that violence will break out later today"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 27 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("French sanctions against South Africa") [possibility of being mooted at annual Franco-African summit and/or European Council; Franco/African trade] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 90 Jun 28 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO & Personal for UK High Commissioner Lusaka (Mandela) ["Mandela wants a negotiated outcome"] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
| 88 Dec 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Anglo/German emissary to President Botha") [joint message from MT & Kohl; Mandela] [declassified Dec 2017] |
| 85 Nov 16 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Black participation in decision-making") ["The President has invited suggestions on black participation in a restructured President's Council... few blacks seem likely to wish to participate"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Call on South African Foreign Minister") [Ambassador Moberly record of conversation: Botha's concerns regarding "renunciation of violence and protection of fundamental rights for minorities"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 23 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group") ["three points which could tip the balance into South African rejection of the EPG"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 21 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group") [Ambassador Moberly, Pik Botha: record of conversation: "no way in which the... [South African government] could agree to be lectured"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("EC Presidency Mission") [Winnie Mandela quoted as saying Nelson Mandela not willing to meet with Howe] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 13 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Internal situation") [report on detentions, incidents and deaths] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 90 Jun 28 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Lusaka: personal for High Commissioner and Shipster) [analysis of current political situation] [declassified Dec 2018] |
| 90 Feb 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Meeting with Mandela") [UK Ambassador Renwick record of conversation: release of political prisoners; negotiations with ANC; sanctions; US/Soviet Union] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Meeting with Mandela") [UK Ambassador Renwick record of Western ambassadors' conversation with Mandela: "a very impressive performance... encouraging"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 85 Nov 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Restrictions on press freedom") ["We expect to be pressed to comment on the new measures and to say what we shall do to support the freedom of the press"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's mission") ["I expect the Government will be expecting... Howe's arrival here sceptically coupled with... puzzlement as to what he may have to say to them"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's mission: press reactions") [PW Botha invitations to black representatives to discuss power sharing] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's mission: press reactions") [summary & quotes] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 6 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa and the Commonwealth") ["I have yet to meet anyone in the Government or among ordinary South Africans who relishes the prospect of a Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group... coming to South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa/France") ["France's "double role" on the sanctions issue"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Dec 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa/Lesotho relations") [report on alleged ANC plans to launch armed attacks from Lesotho] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Dec 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa/Zimbabwe") [FCO press statement; UK message to Mugabe; S.African/Zimbabwean military liaison over latest incident] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Dec 5 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa: freehold rights") ["If asked about this development you may wish to comment that we welcome the intention to allow black home owners to acquire freehold rights"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Dec 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Visit of Lord Barber") [report on meeting with President Botha and Pik Botha] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 90 Jun 28 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO (Mandela) [analysis of his position, complex pressures upon him] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
| 88 Nov 24 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to MT ("Sharpeville Six") [President Botha announces reprieve; "there is no doubt that the Prime Minister's intervention made a critical difference"] [declassified Dec 2017] |
| 86 Feb 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to UKE Cape Town ("Commonwealth Group") [conversation with Lord Barber] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Mar 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to UKE Cape Town ("Commonwealth Group") [Tessa Solesby record of conversation with Lord Barber; MT interested in report of Groups' 'negotiating concept' proposal to S. African government] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to UKHC Lusaka and FCO ("SitRep: internal situation") [State of Emergency: latest incidents; detentions; schools; media; reform programme] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Feb 13 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("European Political Cooperation: Political Committee: Presidency meeting with Pik Botha") [press statement: "grave concerns about developments in South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 90 Jan 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Washington telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's meeting with Secretary Baker") [Hurd, Baker record of conversation: lifting of sanctions in response to Mandela's release; inviting Mandela to US; G7; Angola] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 86 Jul 2 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Washington telegram to FCO ("South Africa: US/UK consultations") [US stance on sanctions] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Apr 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Washington telegram to FCO ("US/South Africa") [PW Botha letters to MT & Reagan; Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons - Lord Barber meeting with Shultz; Tokyo Economic Summit/S. Africa; ComGEP - Fraser/Obasanjo meeting with Shultz ] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 90 Feb 28 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Washington telegram to FCO ("US/South Africa") [record of Chief Buthelezi's conversation with President Bush] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 86 May 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Washington telegram to FCO ("US/South Africa") [report on current political context surrounding Reagan's anticipated response to South African raids] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Apr 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Washington telegram to FCO ("US/South Africa: ComGEP") [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons: report on visit to US] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 90 Feb 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Washington telegram to FCO ("US/South Africa: reaction to de Klerk's Speech") ["Invitation to de Klerk likely to be only gesture possible in immediate future. The Administration will pursue the question of a suspension or modification of sanctions, but results will take time"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 86 Jul 3 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Canberra telegram to FCO ("Australian policy towards South Africa") [sanctions] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Dar es Salaam telegram to FCO ("Eminent Persons Group (EPG)") ["despite scepticism... that any measures short of economic sanctions are likely to influence the South African Government, we believe the Tanzanians are prepared to give it a try"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Guyana letter to No.10 (Caribbean Community Declaration on South Africa) [adopted at the 7th meeting of the Heads of Government] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Feb 26 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group") [report on the Group's meeting with Mugabe] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 90 Feb 1 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("Mrs Chalker's meeting with President Mugabe: South Africa") [record of conversation: "discussed process of change in South Africa at some length"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 86 Jul 2 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Lagos telegram to FCO ("South Africa") [Martin Ewans record of conversation with General Obasanjo: Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons; Mandela; European Council statement; Howe visit to southern Africa] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 10 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Lagos telegram to Howe PS (Secretary of State's visit to Africa: meeting with Nigerian Foreign Minister) ["would be happy to see you here in Lagos, however briefly"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Lusaka telegram to FCO ("South Africa: Prime Minister's message") [William White record of conversation with Kaunda] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 90 Feb 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Lusaka telegram to FCO (ANC statement) [outline of conditions to be presented to South African government] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 85 Nov 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Mbabane telegram to FCO ("Swaziland: South Africa and the Commonwealth") [British High Commissioner Reith, Prime Minister Bhekimpi: record of conversation] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 7 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Krugerrands: GATT aspects: Canada") ["have not... taken legislative measures... encouraged a voluntary ban... unlikely... to alter their current stance"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's meeting with Mr Mulroney: 13 July: South Africa") [media reports] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Jul 3 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("South Africa: Prime Minister's message") [Derek Day record of conversation with Head of DEA Task Force on South Africa: exchange of views on the merits of Howe visit to southern Africa; further sanctions; next Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 90 May 3 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | South Africa: USE Pretoria telegram to State Department ("Mandela reported 'furious' at top adviser for thwarting Thatcher meeting") [Mandela keen to to meet MT in London in mid-April, but blocked by ANC Executive] [leaked 2010] |
| 85 Sep 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | South Africa: White House Press Office Fact Sheet (“President’s decision on South African measures”) |
| 79 Nov 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Acting President Choi Kyu Hah letter to MT (death of President Park Chung Hee) [acknowledgement of MT condolences] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 82 Mar 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Biffen minute to MT (Prime Minister's tour of the Far East) [proposed inclusion of S. Korea to boost trade links] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Apr 30 We | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Prime Minister's visit to South Korea) [request for MT to convey thanks for Royal Opera being granted permission to visit] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Apr 2 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Chairman of United Scientific Holdings letter to No.10 ("South Korea") [Alvis of Coventry commercial contract with Daewoo affected by UK pay dispute/trade union action] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Apr 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with President Chun") [itinerary, arrangements & copy of Chun Doo Hwan dinner speech] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Mar 26 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Visit of the President of Korea") [recommended points for discussion and subjects to avoid] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Apr 26 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Speeches in Korea") [MT visit] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Apr 30 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Korea") [key points for talks; lines to take for the press] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Apr 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Crown Agents letter to No.10 ("The Prime Minister's visit to Korea") [Crown Agents' activities in Korea] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Mar 26 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: FCO briefing for MT ("Call by Mr Chun Doo Hwan, President of the Republic of Korea on the Prime Minister, 9am, 9 April 1986") [points for discussion] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 82 Oct 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: FCO briefing for MT ("Call on Prime Minister by Korean Foreign Minister, Mr Lee Bum Suk") [Presidential visit to UK; economic cooperation; internal situation; Tokyo economic summit] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Apr 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: FCO briefing for MT ("Call on the Prime Minister by the President of the Republic of Korea: 9 April") [British Council; Scotch whisky; publishing/recording copyright; Ferranti/Marconi contract] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Apr 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's visit to the Republic of Korea") [overview, key points & briefing pack] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Mar 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of President Chun Doo Hwan: 7-10 April") [announcement; programme; dinner; talks] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 79 Dec 12 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: FCO minute: McLaren to Cortazzi ("Korea: attempted militart coup?") [reported attack on the home of the Minister of National Defence] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Apr 30 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: FCO telegram to UKE Seoul ("RoK/Antarctica") [South Korea's accession to Antarctic Treaty complicated by status of North Korea] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 82 Oct 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Foreign Minister of South Korea letter to MT (visit to UK) [letter of thanks for his reception] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 81 Aug 13 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Gilmour PS letter to No.10 (Prime Minister Nam Duck Woo visit to UK) [draft note of welcome from MT] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Nov 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Call by Korean Ambassador on Prime Minister") [Howe requests MT to accept call in advance of visit to UK by President Chun Doo Hwan and MT visit to S. Korea - "anxious to gain the maximum benefit to British commercial interests... but the Korean peninsula is also... a potential flash-point"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Aug 21 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("President Chun, Republic of Korea") [greetings to MT] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Apr 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit to Korea") [draft replies to Yonhap News Agency questions] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Apr 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit to the Republic of Korea: possible meetings with Opposition leaders") [suggested candidates] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Apr 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of President Chun Doo Hwan of the Republic of Korea") [comments on draft MT dinner speech] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Oct 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of the President of Korea") [proposed dates] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Mar 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of the President of the Republic of Korea, 7-10 April") [bilateral meeting of economic policy officials] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Apr 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit to Korea: speeches") [amendments] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 80 Aug 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Korea") [MT draft message of congratulations on election of General Chun Doo Hwan to the Presidency: "we may deplore the suppression of opposition but we should also recognise that most Koreans appear to accept the need for authoritarian leadership"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 80 Nov 20 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Korea: Kim Dae Jung") [MT approves EU joint representation against death sentence of Opposition leader] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 80 Oct 23 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Korea: nuclear power stations") [response to MT letter to President re: GEC bid for turbines contract] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Apr 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: MT letter to Dr. Charles Phelps (industrial & academic exchange programme) [MT commends the project in advance of her visit to S. Korea] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 82 May 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: MT letter to Lord Weinstock (Seoul metro extension contract) [General Electric Company secure contract. Biffen: "a major success for GEC in what has traditionally been a Japanese sphere of influence"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 79 Dec 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: MT letter to President Choi Kyu Hah (inauguration to the 10th Presidency) [congratulations] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 80 Jun 29 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: MT letter to President Choi Kyu Hah (Korea Electric Company contracts) [MT (reluctantly) makes plea for GEC to be awarded nuclear power station contracts] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 83 Dec 14 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: MT letter to President Chun Doo Hwan (bombing in Rangoon) [message of solidarity against act of terrorism] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 81 Feb 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: MT letter to President Chun Doo Hwan (President's inauguration) [congratulations] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Dec 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: MT letter to President Chun Doo Hwan (visit to South Korea) [formal acceptance of invitation] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 81 Sep 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: MT letter to Prime Minister Nam Duck-Woo (visit to UK) [MT intercedes on behalf of General Electric Company to help secure Seoul metro contract] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 80 Aug 27 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: MT message to President Chun Doo Hwan ("Inauguration of President Chun") [congratulations] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 82 May 11 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: MT message to President Chun Doo Hwan (Far East tour) [expression of regret that visit to S. Korea will not be possible and invitation to President to visit UK for centenary of UK/S.Korean diplomatic relations in 1983] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 83 Oct 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: MT message to Prime Minister Chin Lee Chong ("New Korean Prime Minister") [congratulations] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 82 Aug 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: No.10 diary note (lunch for the Prime Minister of South Korea) [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Aug 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Invitation to the Prime Minister to visit Korea") [MT agrees provisionally to short visit en route to or from Tokyo economic summit] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Apr 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Korea: High Level visits") [announcement of MT visit] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Apr 9 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Visit of the President of the Republic of Korea: defence sales") [MT & President Chun Doo Hwan seek to push through sale to Korea of the Ferranti/Marconi naval fire system] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 83 May 5 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: No.10 letter to Pym PS ("Visit by Alan Walters to Korea") [invitation from Korean Development Institute to deliver lectures] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 84 Feb 22 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: No.10 letter to Tebbit PS ("Babcock: Pohang Steel Co.") [MT intercedes to ensure financial aid provided in support of securing contract] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 79 Oct 27 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: No.10 minute to MT (death of President Park Chung Hee) [condolences] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 82 Oct 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Foreign Minister Lee Bum Suk, Ambassador Kang Young Hoon) [economic cooperation; internal situation; joint ventures in other countries] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 May 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: No.10 record of conversation (MT, HM Ambassador, Committee of British Chamber of Commerce) [UK business making inroads against Japan and US; main barriers hindering British trade; Korean investment in UK; cultural exchanges] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Apr 9 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, President Chun Doo Hwan, Ambassador Spreckley, Ambassador Young Choo Kim) [strategic value of Korean peninsula in the Cold War; North Korea; Gorbachev; trade; sale to Korea of the Ferranti/Marconi naval fire system; Olympics] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 May 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Chun Doo-hwan, HM Ambassador, Ambassador Kim) [strengthening trade links; Marconi/Ferranti contract; constitutional reform; N. Korea; Western solidarity in face of Soviet threat] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 May 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Prime Minister Lho Shin-yong, Foreign Minister Lee Won-gyeong, Minister of Trade & Industry Kum Jin Ho, HM Ambassador) [UK contracts for Korean defence equipment; Korean infringement of UK industrial copyrights; Double Taxation Agreement; protectionism; democracy] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 80 Jan 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: President Choi Kyu Hah letter to MT (inauguration to the 10th Presidency) [acknowledgement of MT congratulations] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 83 Nov 24 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: President Chun Doo Hwan letter to MT (bombing in Rangoon) [letter of thanks for UK condolences & support] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 80 Sep 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: President Chun Doo Hwan letter to MT (election to the Eleventh Presidency of the Republic of Korea) [response to MT message of congratulations] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 80 Oct 8 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: President Chun Doo Hwan letter to MT (nuclear power stations) [response to MT letter re: GEC bid for turbines contract] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 81 Mar 7 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: President Chun Doo Hwan letter to MT (President's inauguration) [acknowledgement of MT letter of congratulations] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Oct 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: President Chun Doo Hwan letter to MT (visit to South Korea) [invitation] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 80 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: President Chun Doo Hwan message to MT ("Nuclear power stations") [response to MT letter re: GEC bid for turbines contract] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Apr 10 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: President Chun Doo Hwan message to MT (visit to UK) [courtesy note on departure home] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Feb 27 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Prime Minister Shin Yong Lho message to MT (appointment as Prime Minister) [message of thanks for MT congratulations] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 82 Oct 7 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Prior PS letter to Pym PS (Skyvan contract) [MT, Pym and Cockfield intercede with S. Korean Foreign Minister on behalf of Shorts Ltd] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 80 May 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: UKE Seoul telegram to FCO ("Internal security situation") [risk to British nationals from civil unrest in Kwangju area] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Apr 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: UKE Seoul telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit to Korea") [internal political situation] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 80 Aug 16 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: UKE Seoul telegram to FCO ("Resignation of President Choi") ["clears the way for Chun's election as President... even the American were taken by surprise... business circles... resigned relief.... politicians, academics and students... in considerable disarray"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 90 Feb 7 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Andrew Nurnberg letter to Powell (MT meeting with Yeltsin: arrangements) [declassified 2016] |
| 85 Mar 14 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Armstrong minute for Butler (export licence for the carbon-carbon equipment) [declassified 2015] |
| 83 Jun 30 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Armstrong minute for Coles ("Technology Transfer") [the Sunday Times article] [declassified 2015] |
| 83 Feb 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Armstrong minute for MT ("East/West Economic Relations: Activity in COCOM Following the Ending of the Pipeline Dispute") [declassified 2015] |
| 83 Jun 29 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Armstrong minute for MT ("Security Export Controls") [Note by the Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Strategic Exports] [declassified 2015] |
| 90 Feb 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Braithwaite minute for Powell (his next visit to London: meeting with MT) [declassified 2016] |
| 85 Feb 7 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Transfer of Carbon-Carbon Technology to the USSR: Meeting of Ministers - 8 February at 9:45 am") [declassified 2015] |
| 85 Feb 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cabinet Office minute for Armstrong ("Consarc (UK): Export of Carbon-Carbon Technology to the Soviet Union") [declassified 2015] |
| 83 Mar 24 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cabinet Office minute for Cockfield ("UK/USSR Maritime Treaty: Negotiating Objectives") [declassified 2015] |
| 83 Mar 2 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cabinet Office minute for Coles ("Sale of Rolls Royce Gas Turbines to the Soviet Union") [declassified 2015] |
| 85 Feb 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cabinet Office minute for MT ("Transfer of Carbon-Carbon Technology to the Soviet Union") [declassified 2015] |
| 81 Feb 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Francis Pym, Soviet Ambassador) [invasion of Afghanistan; British-Soviet relations; exchanges of Parliamentary visits] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 81 Dec 31 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cabinet Office record of telephone conversation (Soviet Ambassador request to meet with MT) ["to receive the Soviet Ambassador would embarrass the Americans"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 81 Mar 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster PS minute to FCO (British-Soviet exchanges of Parliamentary visits after Afghanistan invasion) [draft reply to Soviet Ambassador] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 89 Feb 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Charles Powell to FCO ("Mr. Gorbachev's visit") [Soviet diplomat worried that Gorbachev would be meeting HMQ at Windsor Castle rather than Buckingham Palace; Powell "really urged him not to make an issue out of this"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 81 Feb 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Chief Whip's PS letter to Robin Barden (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster discussion with Soviet Ambassador: comments) [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Chris Donnelly minute ("The Tragedy of Centralism" by Alexandar Prokhanov) [testimony to the powerfull nationalist Russian sentiments which Gorbachev's policies have evoked] [declassified 2016] |
| 83 Feb 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cockfield letter for Pym ("Gas Turbines for the Soviet Union") [declassified 2015] |
| 83 Mar 30 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cockfield minute for Sproat ("United Kingdom/USSR Maritime Treaty: Negotiating Objectives") [declassified 2015] |
| 90 Feb 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cradock minute for MT ("Visit to Moscow") [declassified 2016] |
| 90 Mar 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cradock minute for Powell ("Meeting of the New Estonian Parliament") [declassified 2016] |
| 90 Mar 15 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cradock minute for Powell ("Soviet Studies") [declassified 2016] |
| 90 Mar 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cradock minute for Powell ("Soviet Union: The Executive Presidency") [declassified 2016] |
| 90 Feb 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cradock minute for Powell ("Visit to Moscow") [German unification; Eastern Europe; arms control; China; internal policy] [declassified 2016] |
| 89 Mar 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cradock minute to Margaret Thatcher ("Gorbachev visit") [Soviet internal situation; East/West relations and arms control; regional issues; bilateral questions] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 90 Feb 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cradock minute to Powell ("Soviet Union - The Central Committee Plenum, 5-7 February") [declassified 2016] |
| 83 May 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: David Goodall minute for Coles ("Supply of Oil and Gas Related Equipment to the Soviet Union") [declassified 2015] |
| 83 Oct 28 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Coles ("COCOM: Computers") [declassified 2015] |
| 83 Nov 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Coles (COCOM - Computers: MT's reaction to Tebbit's letter) [declassified 2015] |
| 85 Sep 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Powell ("Carbon-Carbon Technology: USSR") [declassified 2015] |
| 85 Sep 11 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Powell ("Carbon-Carbon Technology: USSR") [declassified 2015] |
| 85 Mar 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Powell ("Transfer of Carbon-Carbon Technology to the USSR") [declassified 2015] |
| 85 Feb 27 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Powell ("Transfer of Carbon-Carbon Technology to the USSR: Consarc Engineering Limited") [declassified 2015] |
| 85 Mar 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Powell ("Transfer of Carbon-Carbon Technology to the USSR: Consarc Engineering Limited") [declassified 2015] |
| 83 Mar 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Pym ("UK/USSR Maritime Treaty: Negotiating Objective") [declassified 2015] |
| 83 May 11 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Department of Trade letter for Coles (supply of oil and gas related equipment to the Soviet Union) [declassified 2015] |
| 83 May 5 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Department of Trade minute for Coles ("British/Soviet Joint Commission") [declassified 2015] |
| 83 May 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Department of Trade minute for Coles ("British/Soviet Joint Commission") [declassified 2015] |
| 87 Mar 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to the Soviet Union: Meeting with Soviet Ambassador, 10 March") [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 86 Nov 12 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT ("Soviet Ambassador's Call on the Prime Minister: 13 November") [arms control, Syria/terrorism, CSCE/human rights, UK-Soviet relations] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 86 Apr 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT ("Soviet Ambassador's Farewell Call") ["important to use Popov's farewell calls to (...) establish ourselves in Soviet eyes as independent interlocutors with views of our own"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 79 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT (call on the Prime Minister by the Soviet Ambassador) [Brezhnev's Berlin speech on military detente] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 88 Jul 7 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT (Meeting with the Soviet Ambassador: Soviet Party Conference) [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Mar 28 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT (telephone conversation with President Gorbachev) [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Dec 10 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO message to UKE Moscow ("Prime Minister's Message: Call on Gorbachev") [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 83 Apr 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for Coles (Anglo/Soviet relations: possible visit to Moscow by Rifkind) [declassified 2015] |
| 79 Sep 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for No.10 (call by Soviet ambassador) ["no reason for MT to receive Mr Lunkov"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Mar 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell ("Baltic Gold") [declassified 2016] |
| 90 Feb 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell ("Call on The Prime Minister by Medvedev") [programme of the visit & personality note on Medvedev] [declassified 2016] |
| 90 Mar 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell ("Food for the Soviet Union") [declassified 2016] |
| 90 Mar 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell ("Lithuanian Independence") [Foreign Secretary shares MT's caution in reacting to the Lithuanians' declaration] [declassified 2016] |
| 90 Mar 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell ("Message from the Prime Minister to President Gorbachev") [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Nov 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell ("Prime Minister's Message to Gorbachev") [arms control, Afganistan, human rights, terrorism] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell ("Request for Call on The Prime Minister by Mr Yeltsin") [declassified 2016] |
| 90 Feb 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell ("Soviet Union: Central Committee Plenum") [declassified 2016] |
| 90 Mar 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell (Lithuania's declaration of independence: reactions, impact, prospects) [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Nov 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell (MT's draft reply to Gorbachev) [arms control] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 86 Nov 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell (MT's draft reply to Gorbachev) [arms control] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell (Soviet Ceilings: Soviet-British bilateral relations) [declassified 2016] |
| 83 May 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute to Cabinet Office ("Supply of Oil and Gas Related Equipment to the Soviet Union") [declassified 2015] |
| 81 Mar 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute to Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster PS (British-Soviet relations & exchanges of Parliamentary visits after Afghanistan invasion) [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 83 Aug 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute to No.10 ("Security Export Controls") [declassified 2015] |
| 80 Oct 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute to No.10 (Soviet Ambassador farewell meeting with MT) [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Mar 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute to No.10 (Yeltsin's visit to London) [declassified 2016] |
| 88 Jul 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute to Powell ("Afghanistan: Soviet Prisoners of War") [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute to Powell ("Elections in Lithuania") [line to take] [declassified 2016] |
| 81 Apr 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO telegram to UKE Moscow (Carrington meeting with Soviet Ambassador: arms control & British-Soviet relations) [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 82 Sep 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO telegram to UKHC New Delhi (“Bilateral with US Secretary of State: pipeline”) [US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
| 83 Feb 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO to UKE Washington ("Gas Turbines for the Soviet Union") [declassified 2015] |
| 90 Mar 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO to UKE Washington ("Meeting of Summit Seven Political Directors: Soviet Union and Europe") [Baker-Shevardnadze meeting] [declassified 2016] |
| 81 Apr 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Foreign Secretary's PS record of conversation (Carrington, Popov) [arms control; British-Soviet relations] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Feb 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Gorbachev letter for MT (British-Soviet dialogue; perestroika; situation Germany) [declassified 2016] |
| 90 Feb 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Gorbachev letter for MT (British-Soviet dialogue; perestroika; situation Germany) [declassified 2016] |
| 83 Apr 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Heseltine letter for Rees (East-West trade: implementation of COCOM measures) [declassified 2015] |
| 84 Jul 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Heseltine minute for Tebbit ("COCOM") [Howe's minute about the successful outcome] [declassified 2015] |
| 85 Feb 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Heseltine minute for Tebbit ("Transfer of Carbon-Carbon Technology to USSR") [declassified 2015] |
| 83 Feb 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Howe letter for Lord Cockfield ("Gas Turbines for the Soviet Union") [declassified 2015] |
| 83 Oct 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Howe minute for MT ("COCOM - Computers") [declassified 2015] |
| 85 Feb 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Howe minute for MT ("Transfer of Carbon-Carbon Technology to the USSR") [declassified 2015] |
| 84 Jul 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Howe minute for Tebbit ("COCOM: Successful Conclusion of List review") [declassified 2015] |
| 85 Feb 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Howe minute for Tebbit ("Transfer of Carbon-Carbon Technology to USSR") [declassified 2015] |
| 89 May 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to Powell ("Soviet Expulsions") [Howe wants to publish names; MT: "This would be a betrayal of my undertaking to Gorbachev"] [declassified Jul 2018] |
| 90 Mar 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Hurd minute to UKE Dublin (Coreu telegram: UK position on Lithuania) [declassified 2016] |
| 83 Oct 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Ian Stewart minute for MT ("COCOM - Computers") [declassified 2015] |
| 83 Feb 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Jenkin minute for Lord Cockfield ("Gas Turbines for the Soviet Union") [declassified 2015] |
| 90 Mar 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Keith Joseph letter for Powell (the MARATHON team request for an urgent meeting of Ministers) [declassified 2016] |
| 90 Mar 24 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Landsbergis letter to MT (restoration of independent Lithuania) [declassified 2016] |
| 90 Mar 24 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Landsbergis letter to MT (restoration of independent Lithuania) [MT: better to wait a few days to reply] [declassified 2016] |
| 80 Feb 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 (letter to the Prime Minister from Commander Anthony Courtney: level of Soviet representation in the UK) [comments on proposals for countering risk of espionage] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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