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1979 Sep 21 - 1981 Dec 15
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/612
Argentina (Falklands) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Secret
Page count: 94
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Datesort ascending Value Title
81 Dec 18 Fr Major Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Argentina") [MT will not send congratulations to Galtieri: "I don't like sending these messages on military take overs"] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 15 Tu Major Falklands: FCO News Department press release ("Anglo-Argentine Talks on Falklands") [talks postponed at Argentine request] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 7 Mo Major Falklands: Chief Secretary PS letter to Foreign Secretary PS ("Falkland Islands") [glad at "cautious optimism concerning the forthcoming talks in Geneva"; worry about spending implications if Argentina interferes with communications] [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 24 Tu Major Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") [possible measures to improve Falklands economy] [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 8 Th Major Falklands: FCO telegram to Port Stanley ("Anglo-Argentine Discussions: Consultations with New Councillors After Elections") [guidance as to handling; "we recognise the hardening of opinion in the islands against substantive sovereignty negotiations"] [declassified 2012]
81 Sep 24 Th Major Falklands: Chief Secretary minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") [financial implications of Falklands dispute: "there is a risk that the Islanders will assume that HMG will bail them out"] [declassified 2012]
81 Sep 14 Mo Key Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") [state of play in Anglo-Argentine dispute] [declassified 2012]
81 Mar 26 Th Major Falklands: MT message to President Viola of Argentina (congratulations on accession to the Presidency) [declassified 2012]
81 Mar 13 Fr Key Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") [report on Anglo-Argentine talks in New York] [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 23 Mo Major Falklands: FCO record of Anglo-Argentine Ministerial talks on the Falkland Islands: New York, 23/24 February 1981 (Nick Ridley-Cavandoli) [declassified 2012]
81 Jan 29 Th Major Cabinet: Minutes of Defence and Oversea Policy Committee - OD(81) 1st (Falkland Islands, Arms Supplies to Iran and Iraq) [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 28 We Major Falklands: Cabinet Secretary briefing for MT ("Falkland Islands (OD(81) 2)") [Falkland Islanders' response to Government proposals] [declassified 2012]
81 Jan 26 Mo Major Cabinet: Carrington memo circulated to OD Committee - OD(81) 2 (Falkland Islands) [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 14 We Major Falklands: Cabinet Office minute to Alexander ("The Falkland Islands under the Nationality Bill") [implications of the Nationality Bill for Islanders] [declassified 2012]
81 Jan 12 Mo Major Falklands: Whitelaw minute to MT ("The Falkland Islands Under the Nationality Bill") [declassified 2012]
80 Dec 3 We Major Cabinet: Minutes of Defence and Oversea Policy Committee - OD(80) 25th (Defence Sales, Falkland Islands) [declassified 2010]
80 Dec 2 Tu Key Falklands: No.10 minute to MT ("Falkland Islands: Mr Ridley's statement") [leaseback - "Mr Ridley had an awful time in the House this afternoon"] [declassified 2012]
80 Dec 2 Tu Major Falklands: Cabinet Secretary briefing for MT ("Falkland Islands") [Nick Ridley's visit to the Falklands] [declassified 2012]
80 Nov 27 Th Major Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(80) 42nd (Firemen’s Pay, Canadian Constitution, Remuneration of Junior Ministers in the House of Lords, etc) [declassified 2010]
80 Nov 7 Fr Key Cabinet: Minutes of Defence and Oversea Policy Committee - OD(80) 23rd (Falkland Islands, Health of the Alliance) [OD approves Ridley putting leaseback to Falkland Islanders] [declassified 2010]