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Text 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Ankara telegram to FCO (“UDI: Recognition”) [“Bangladesh have duly recognised the Turkish Cypriot ‘state’”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Ankara telegram to FCO (“Cyprus: UDI: Turkish Press Reaction”) [“It is universally accepted that Denktash acted without the authority or knowledge of Ankara”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 1044 to FCO (1800Z) (“Turkish Cypriot UDI: French Reactions”) [“The French Government could not possibly accept this fait accompli”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Howe PS letter to Coles (“Cyprus”) [“we will continue our efforts to bring about a reversal” of the Turkish Cypriot UDI] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO telegram to UKE Ankara (“Cyprus: Turkish Cypriot Declaration of Independence”) [meeting with Turkmen: “We hoped that all involved would avoid doing anything to make the situation worse”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO telegram to UKE Ankara (“Cyprus: Turkish Cypriot Declaration of Independence”) [meeting with Koutsogiorgas: “I said that it was our strong wish that nothing would be done which might add to tension”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: FCO briefing to No.10 (“CHOGM: Mr Mugabe”) [Heads of Government meeting] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: Coles minute for MT ('Intepreters') [MT worried interpreters not getting a chance to eat] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Channon, etc - Yugoslav Prime Minister Planinc) [plenary: world economic situation, international debt, Yugoslav economy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Yugoslav Prime Minister Planinc) [tête-à-tête: East/West, non-alignment, arms race, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia's economy & copies of speeches made at lunch] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Jopling letter to Jenkin (MAFF establishments served by Defence 'dedicated' District Works Officers) ["views on your proposals... that the particularly high proportion of... [such] establishments... might suffer a deterioration of service"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Geoffrey Pattie minute to Heseltine ("Rapier for Spain") [competing proposals for low-level air defence system: record of conversation with Spanish government to discuss BA pitch/Gibraltar problem] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("European Community") [Jopling concerns about cost of EC enlargement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Athens European Council 5/6 Dec; EC budget inequity; milk quotas/levies, monetary compensatory amounts & other agricultural issues; 1982 risk-sharing refund; Agriculture Council; Jopling visit to US; Development Council; ESPRIT information technology programme; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Motley & Middendorf memorandum to Eagleburger ("OASGA Vote on Falklands") [published 2015]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Department of Employment press release ("More Places for Disabled on Youth Training Scheme") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: David Barclay minute to MT ("Future of Optical Services") [Fowler statement to Parliament on ending of Opticians' monopoly, lifting of advertising restrictions and removal of NHS duty to supply glasses to general public] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (Further Competition policy in telecommunications) [text of statement revised at request of No.10] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Inland Revenue and the Black Economy") [extent of increase in manpower; announcement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Mount minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: comments on conclusions of H Committee] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Prime Minister Trudeau letter to MT (East/West Relations and international security) [proposals for meeting of NATO at Stockholm conference on 17 January, and for NATO response to Eastern European proposals on MBFR] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Greville Janner MP letter to MT (persecution of Jews in Zimbabwe) [response to request for MT to intercede with Mugabe] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Taxation: HMT letter to No.10 ("Offshore and Overseas Funds: Offshore Life Assurance") [response to MT's concerns regarding new legislation on life assurance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: FCO note ("The Western Role in Preserving the Stablity of Jordan") [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) France: Prime Minister Mauroy of France letter to MT (Skynet satellites and Ariane European satellite-launcher) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Commonwealth: MT letter to Prime Minister Muldoon of New Zealand (economic themes for discussion at New Delhi Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada letter to MT (NATO, nuclear weapons, and arms control) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Ian Paisley (Anglo-Irish Joint Studies) [Anglo-Irish co-operation consistent with unchanged constitutional status of Northern Ireland] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Sixth Round”) [“The Chinese returned repeatedly to the importance of the issues of principle”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Calls on Chinese leaders”) [“would be a logical step”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Future Tactics”) [“This has been a discouraging session. In the light of it the road ahead looks even bleaker than we had envisaged”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Coles note to MT (“Tomorrow’us Meeting on Hong Kong”) [“will be about negotiating tactics and I do not think any financial issues will arise”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Ricketts letter to Coles (“Hong Kong: Negotiations with the Chinese”) [“no real progress was made”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Lindsay Wilkinson minute to MT (“OD(K): Hong Kong”) [Cradock’s observation on talks, advice on future tactics] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Tebbit, Leigh-Pemberton) [the financial package for Brazil] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: FCO to No.10 (“Policy on the Middle East: Jordan”) [preserving the integrity and stability of Jordan] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: Howe minute to Heseltine (“UK-Iran Negotiations on Defence Industry Claims”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Treasury briefing for MT (Grant and Holdback for local authorities in 1984-85) [MT meeting on local authority finance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Department of Trade & Industry record of conversation (MT, Tebbit, Tom King, Peter Rees, Lamont, BAe/Rolls-Royce delegations) [“Presentations by British Aerospace and Rolls Royce to the Prime Minister and other Ministers”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 1363 to FCO (0142Z) (“Falklands debate”) [“detailed breakdown of voting on this year’s resolution”] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Nov 16 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Speech of welcome to the Yugoslav Prime Minister (Mrs Planina)
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