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1982 Apr 27 - 1982 Apr 29
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/622
Argentina (Falklands) (Part 11)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Secret
Page count: 288
Any docs withheld? 3

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82 Apr 29 Th Major Falklands: FCO Sitrep (0630Z) (Overnight Developments) [Reports from Haig; OAS/UN; TEZ; Chile; Uruguay; Australia; NATO; US opinion poll; BAS personnel; Falkland evacuation; South Georgia; British aircraft] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Major Falklands: UKHC New Delhi telegram 431 to FCO (0700Z) ("Falkland Islands") [record of conversation with Mrs Gandhi - 'unsatisfactory', but she understood British points; will try to maintain some sort of balance between the two sides] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Minor Falklands: MT letter to Sultan Qaboos bin Sa'id of Oman (thanks for support) ["There are many countries around the world which could suffer the consequences if aggression was rewarded in this case"] [released 2013]
82 Apr 29 Th Major Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Beagle Channel") [background note on Argentina-Chile dispute over the channel, as requested by No.10] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Minor Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islands: position on medical emergencies") [MT asked about medical arrangements for islanders outside Port Stanley once TEZ enforced] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Minor Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("ICRC and the Geneva Convention") [response to No.10 asking what ICRC was doing and whether new Argentine measures on islands breached Fourth Geneva Convention] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Major Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islanders") [official review of islander morale and arrangements for those wanting to leave temporarily] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Minor Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islanders: the Total Exclusion Zone") [reassuring message Pym thinks should be broadcast to islanders this evening by Hunt] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Minor Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Role of the UN Secretary-General") [MT asked for a note on UNSG role; Article 99 of Charter; "good offices"] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Major Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Nuclear cooperation between Germany and Argentina") [MT approves draft PMQ Q&A stating nothing in the story] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Major Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 (draft statement if Haig proposals fail) [suitable for MT speech] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Minor Falklands: Lord Privy Seal PS letter to No.10 (Falklands debate) [draft of Lady Young's speech as at 1300] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Major Falklands: FCO telegram 871 to UKE Washington (1200Z) ("Argentina: import ban") [EC import ban hard to sustain if US does not follow suit if it tilts to UK, but do not hint of doubt on this score] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Major Falklands: MT letter to President Reagan (1322Z) (Cabinet response to Haig's latest proposals) [deadline has passed without word from Argentina; "the proposals must now be regarded as having been rejected by the Argentines"] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Minor Falklands: UKE Bonn telegram 384 to FCO (1430Z) ("German reporting on Argentina") [telegrams from Buenos Aires] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Major Falklands: FCO telegram 868 to Haig (1430Z) ("Falklands") [Cabinet consider Argentines to have rejected US proposals; Pym urges US Administration to adopt same position] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Minor Falklands: Governor of Gibraltar telegram 27 to FCO (1430Z) ("Falkland Islands") [resolution of support from Gibraltar House of Assembly] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Minor Falklands: UKMIS Geneva telegram 198 to FCO (1610Z) ("Falkland Islands and ICRC") [ICRC seeks information on personnel at South Georgia; plans to visit Falklands] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Minor Falklands: UKE Montevideo telegram to FCO (1615Z) ("Russian offers to Argentina") [press reports Soviets offered Argentina assistance across the board, including military] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Major Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1509 to FCO (1625Z) ("Falklands") [Haig to make statement conveying "a tone of sorrow more than anger" at intransigence of Argentine Government] [declassified 2012]