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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)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 340
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81 May 1 Fr Major Middle East: Alexander minute to MT ("Arab/Israeli Dispute") [Carrington's case "for making an effort to move the PLO towards the conditional recognition of Israel's right to exist within secure boundaries"] [declassified 2011]
81 Sep 8 Tu Major Middle East: Alexander note to MT (list of governments "firmly opposed" to UK participation in Sinai Multinational Force) [Arab-Israeli conflict] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 13 Mo Major Middle East: Armstrong minute to Alexander ("The Arab/Israeli Dispute (OD(81) 35)") [possible meeting between Carrington and Arafat] [declassified 2011]
81 May 12 Tu Major Middle East: FCO letter to No.10 ("Arab/Israel Dispute") [Carrington to begin discussion with the PLO] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 18 Th Major Middle East: FCO letter to No.10 ("Iraq and Israel: Security Council Debate") [Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation: text of Iraqi resolution, outstanding points of contention] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 8 Mo Major Middle East: FCO letter to No.10 ("Israeli Attack on Iraq") [attack on Osirak nuclear installation: "Carrington believes that it would be wrong not to condemn"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 12 Fr Major Middle East: FCO letter to No.10 ("Israeli Attack On Iraqi Nuclear Power Plant") [Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation: FCO questions Israeli claims about attack] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 16 Tu Major Middle East: FCO letter to No.10 ("UN Security Council: Israel/Iraq") [Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 16 Tu Major Middle East: FCO letter to No.10 (speech by Israeli Ambassador to UK, Argov, on European Middle East policy) ["Lord Carrington believes the speech verges on unacceptable from an Ambassador speaking in the country to which he is accredited"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 16 Tu Major Middle East: FCO minute to John Graham ("UN Security Council: Israel/Iraq") [Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation: response to draft Iraqi resolution] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 11 Th Major Middle East: FCO to UKE Baghdad ("Israeli Attack On Iraq") [Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation: Arab Ambassadors call on Gilmour, condemn Israeli attack] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 12 Fr Major Middle East: FCO to UKE Baghdad ("Israeli Attack On Iraq") [Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation: FCO questions Israeli claims about attack, requests clarification] [declassified 2011]
81 Sep 4 Fr Major Middle East: FCO to UKE Cairo ("Sinai Multinational Force") [Arab-Israeli conflict: US requests UK to provide 150-man unit for MNF] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 26 We Major Middle East: FCO to UKE Paris ("Cheysson's Middle East Visit") [Arab-Israeli conflict: thoughts on Cheysson's trip] [declassified 2011]
81 May 1 Fr Major Middle East: FCO to UKE Tel Aviv ("UK/Israeli Relations and the EC Initiative and Lebanon") [John Graham meets with Israeli Minister in London] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 27 Mo Major Middle East: MT letter to Winston Churchill MP (Israel-Iraq relations: Iraqi nuclear weapons policy) [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 1 We Major Middle East: MT letter to Winston Churchill MP (Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation in Iraq) ["I stand by my statement that the attack...was unjustified and in contravention of international law"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 15 Mo Major Middle East: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ambassadors of United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Algeria and Kuwait-Carrington) [Arab-Israeli conflict, Israel-Lebanon conflict] [declassified 2011]
81 Sep 23 We Major Middle East: UKE Amman to FCO ("Visit by the Secretary of State for Defence to Jordan: 20-23 September") [account of Nott's visit: Arab-Israeli conflict, UK defence sales and assistance to Jordan] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 8 Mo Major Middle East: UKE Baghdad to FCO ("Attack on Iraqi Nuclear Plant") [Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation: account of damage, casualties] [declassified 2011]