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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 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 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 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 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 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 5 Fr Major Middle East: UKE Tel Aviv to FCO ("Begin/Sadat Meeting") ["Begin...was clearly delighted by this meeting"] [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 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 9 Tu Major Middle East: UKE Cairo to FCO ("Israeli Raid") [Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation: Egyptian government condemns attack] [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 May 4 Mo Major Middle East: UKE Rome to FCO ("Libya") [account of quadripartite Ministerial dinner in Rome, 3 May: concerns about Gaddhafi] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 8 Mo Major Middle East: UKE Baghdad to FCO ("Attack on Iraqi Nuclear Plant") [Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation: further details] [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 May 12 Tu Major Middle East: FCO letter to No.10 ("Arab/Israel Dispute") [Carrington to begin discussion with the PLO] [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 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 Sep 18 Fr Major Middle East: UKE Cairo to FCO ("Visit of Secretary of State for Defence: Meeting with President Sadat") [Arab-Israeli conflict: Nott-Sadat meeting] [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]