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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 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]
81 Jul 27 Mon Middle East: MT letter to Winston Churchill MP (Israel-Iraq relations: Iraqi nuclear weapons policy) [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 26 Wed Middle East: FCO to UKE Paris ("Cheysson's Middle East Visit") [Arab-Israeli conflict: thoughts on Cheysson's trip] [declassified 2011]
81 Sep 4 Fri 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 Sep 8 Tue Middle East: Alexander note to MT (list of governments "firmly opposed" to UK participation in Sinai Multinational Force) [Arab-Israeli conflict] [declassified 2011]
81 Sep 18 Fri 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 Sep 21 Mon 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 Sep 22 Tue 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 23 Wed 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 23 Wed 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 May 1 Fri 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 May 1 Fri 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 May 1 Fri 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 May 4 Mon Middle East: UKE Rome to FCO ("Libya") [account of quadripartite Ministerial dinner in Rome, 3 May: concerns about Gaddhafi] [declassified 2011]
81 May 4 Mon Middle East: UKE Tel Aviv to FCO ("Israel/Europe") [Begin attacks Schmidt and Giscard at Herut party meeting] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 5 Fri Middle East: UKE Tel Aviv to FCO ("Begin/Sadat Meeting") ["Begin...was clearly delighted by this meeting"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 7 Sun 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 8 Mon 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 8 Mon Middle East: UKE Baghdad to FCO ("Attack on Iraqi Nuclear Plant") [Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation: account of damage, casualties] [declassified 2011]