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1981 May 1 - 1981 Sep 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/531
Middle East (Situation in the Middle East) (Part 6)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 340
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81 Sep 23 We Major Middle East: UKMIS New York telegram 892 to FCO (0131Z) ("Secretary of State's Meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister: 22 September") [Carrington-Shamir meeting: Iraqi UN Resolution, Arab-Israeli conflict, Lebanon] [declassified 2011]
81 Sep 22 Tu Major Middle East: UKMIS New York telegram 880 to FCO (0424Z) ("Secretary of State's Meeting with UN Secretary General, 21 September") [Carrington-Waldheim meeting: Israeli attack on Lebanon] [declassified 2011]
81 Sep 21 Mo Major Middle East: UKMIS New York telegram 874 to FCO (2349Z) ("Secretary of State's Meeting with Haig on 21 September: Middle East") [Carrington-Haig meeting: US request for UK to participate in Sinai Multinational Force] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 17 We Major Middle East: UKMIS New York telegram 534 to FCO (0001Z) ("Israel/Iraq in the Security Council") [Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation: report of UN Security Council speeches] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 16 Tu Major Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 1838 to FCO (1619Z) ("Lord Privy Seal's Meeting with the Vice President") [Gilmour-Bush meeting: Arab-Israeli conflict, Mitterand's position on Israel, Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation in Iraq, Syria, European initiatives] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 16 Tu Major Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 1835 to FCO (1450Z) ("Middle East: Lord Privy Seal's Talk with Stoessel") [Gilmour-Stoessel meeting: Arab-Israeli conflict] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 8 Mo Major Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 1758 to FCO (1935Z) ("Israeli Attack on Iraq") [attack on Osirak nuclear installation: State Department views on motivation behind Israeli attack] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 7 Su Major Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 1755 to FCO (2200Z) ("Israeli Attack on Iraq") [attack on Osirak nuclear installation: "Weinberger says he thinks Begin must have taken leave of his senses"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 3 We Major Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 1707 to FCO (1920Z) ("Observer Status for PLO at IMF and IBRD") ["not possible" to grant PLO observer status according to US] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 16 Tu Major Middle East: UKE Washington teelgram 1831 to FCO (0040Z) ("Lord Privy Seal's Meeting with the US Secretary of Defense") [Gilmour-Weinberger meeting: Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation in Iraq] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 17 We Major Middle East: FCO telegram 315 to UKMIS New York (1615Z) ("Israel/Iraq in the Security Council") [Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation: Iraqi draft resolution, instructions to Parsons] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 23 Th Major Middle East: FCO telegram 1122 to UKE Washington (1800Z) ("US-Arab Relations") [Hurd meets with Minister at US Embassy to discuss his visits to Iraq and Jordan] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 10 We Major Middle East: Yitzhak Shamir letter to Carrington (Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation) ["the decision which my government took in self-defence was...one from which...we could not shrink"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 9 Tu Major Middle East: Winston Churchill MP letter to MT (Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation) [criticises MT's position on Israeli attack] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 7 Tu Major Middle East: Winston Churchill MP letter to MT (Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation in Iraq) [concerns at Iraqi ambitions "to become a nuclear weapons power"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 1 Fr Major Middle East: UKE Tel Aviv to FCO ("Israel/Lebanon") ["Seen from here, the events of the last week can only be explained on the basis of an irresponsible failure by the Americans...to make clear to the Israelis where US limits lie"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 15 Mo Major Middle East: UKE Tel Aviv to FCO ("Israel/Iraq") [Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation: Israeli justification for attack questioned] [declassified 2011]
81 May 4 Mo Major Middle East: UKE Tel Aviv to FCO ("Israel/Europe") [Begin attacks Schmidt and Giscard at Herut party meeting] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 8 Mo Major Middle East: UKE Tel Aviv to FCO ("Israel Attack on Iraq") [attack on Osirak nuclear installation: "Until the Americans put a stop to this...any Israeli Prime Minister will believe he can repeat such operations with impunity"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 5 Fr Major Middle East: UKE Tel Aviv to FCO ("Begin/Sadat Meeting") ["Begin...was clearly delighted by this meeting"] [declassified 2011]