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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 Jun 12 Fri 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 Jun 12 Fri 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 13 Sat Middle East: UKE Baghdad to FCO ("Israeli Attack On Iraq") [Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation: response to FCO questions about Israeli account of attack] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 15 Mon Middle East: UKE Tel Aviv to FCO ("Israel/Iraq") [Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation: Israeli justification for attack questioned] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 15 Mon 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 Jun 16 Tue 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 16 Tue 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 16 Tue 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 Tue Middle East: FCO letter to No.10 ("UN Security Council: Israel/Iraq") [Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 16 Tue 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 Tue 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 17 Wed 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 17 Wed 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 Jun 18 Thu 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 Jul 1 Wed 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 Jul 5 Sun Middle East: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Secretary of State's Meeting with French and German Foreign Ministers on 5 July: Middle East") [Arab-Israeli conflict] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 6 Mon Middle East: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Secretary of State's Talks with Gromyko 6 July: Middle East") [Arab-Israeli conflict] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 7 Tue 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 Jul 13 Mon Middle East: Armstrong minute to Alexander ("The Arab/Israeli Dispute (OD(81) 35)") [possible meeting between Carrington and Arafat] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 23 Thu 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]