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1981 Oct 1 - 1981 Nov 3
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/532
Middle East (Situation in the Middle East) (Part 7)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 178
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81 Oct 15 Th Major Middle East: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington) ["Sinai Multinational Force"] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 12 Mo Major Middle East: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan) [Sinai Multinational Force: Reagan "being a pest again" by requesting UK involvement] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 8 Th Major Middle East: Nott minute to MT (Nott's Middle East visits) [Sinai Multinational Force, death of Sadat, Jordan, Israeli occupation of the West Bank, arms sales, Malaysia, Thailand, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Nepal] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 31 Sa Major Middle East: UKE Jedda to FCO ("AWACS") [views in Saudi Arabia of US sale of AWACS to Saudis: "In truth, this is a battle which nobody has won"] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 19 Mo Major Middle East: UKE Muscat to FCO ("US/Egypt") [Omani participation in Operation Bright Star (US training exercise): "it is important that the Americans should not feel that it is the British who are spiking their guns"] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 22 Th Major Middle East: UKE Tel Aviv to FCO ("Call on Israeli Prime Minister") [UK Ambassador to Tel Aviv meets with Begin: Camp David process, Sinai, the Venice Declaration] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 23 Fr Major Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 2 to UKDEL Cancun (1830Z) ("US/Saudi Arabia: AWACS") [letter from US Congressmen to MT: urges UK not to supply Saudi Arabia with Nimrod aircraft] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 1 Th Major Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 2930 to FCO (2254Z) ("Sinai Peace-Keeping Force") [comment on Reagan's message to MT: "This message from the President compounds the dirtiness of the trick...of the American request for our participation in the Sinai force"] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 22 Th Major Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 3170 to FCO (1359Z) ("Arab/Israel") [Haig discusses Prince Fahd's Eight Points for Arab-Israeli framework for peace with Saudi Foreign Ministry] [declassified 2011]
81 Nov 2 Mo Major Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 3267 to FCO (2333Z) ("US/Israel") ["The Israelis and their committed supporters in the US media...appear determined to undercut what they see as a closer US/Saudi relationship following the AWACS decision"] [declassified 2011]